Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina among others.[1]
Well known for her work in pinhole photography,[2] Bass has work in the collection of the Polaroid Corporation.[3] Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera across the United States including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts[4] and University of Memphis[5] and Space One Eleven. Known for her portable pop-up pinhole cameras, The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole she made out of a pop-up camper -- "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom".[6] She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.[7]
In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".[8]
^Huntsville Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts: as one of twelve participants in "Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium"; "Professor Elected for National Exhibit", Archived 2006-09-18 at the Wayback Machine University of Alabama at Birmingham press release, 24 March 2000. Bass is mentioned as among "13 exciting photographers" (and a list of 14) participating in the exhibition "Making Pictures" at Asheville Art Museum: "Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, Features American Photography", Carolina Arts, June 2000. Birmingham Museum of Art: "Museum Hosts 50th Anniversary Party and Statewide Premiere of Documentary on Alabama Artists Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Bass is listed as among the 22 participants in The International Pinhole Photography Exhibition, June 30–September 9, 1990, Exhibition History, 1990s, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. High Museum of Art: as mentioned in an auction page for her work Aburrations II Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, the Light Factory. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Bass is mentioned as one of 13 participants in "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography", 2003. "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography", website of Jan Kapoor.
^www.carolinaarts.com/405upstairs.html
^""The Polaroid Book" @ Polaroid.com". Archived from the original on 2008-05-25. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
^Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
^EMRYS Foundation: EMRYS Foundation Archived 2006-12-02 at the Wayback Machine. University of Memphis: "Lectures", Number, no. 37, Winter 2000 Archived 2006-01-11 at the Wayback Machine (PDF).
^The camera is mentioned by Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Thomson, 2002; ISBN 0-7668-2077-7), 15. This part of the book is reproduced within
the publisher's sample PDF.
^Christopher James, The Pinhole", chap. 1 of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (PDF).
^"HR 455 - 'Georgia Women's History Month'; recognize month of March, 1997"
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