Sheron RuppSheron Rupp, born in 1943 in Mansfield, Ohio, taught herself photography, then later returned to college to pursue it more formally. She earned an MFA in photography from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1982. Rupp credits the influencesof photographers Helen Levitt for a candid approach and William Eggleston for his sense of color and interest in the quotidian, as well as anonymous family snapshots for their casual ambiance. In the 1980s, Rupp documented Appalachian areas of Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky and returned to the mountainous region of Arkansas she remembered from her youth. She received recognition when her work was included in Museum of Modern Art curator Peter Galassi's influential 1991 exhibition, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, and in the exhibition Where We Live: Photographs of America at the J.Paul Getty Museum 2006, also published as a book of the same title. Rupp's awarded work is in the collections of the New York MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and many others. Read More Read Less