Women of Art ~ A Visual Life, 3

Photo: “Dance” by Susan Bein. Article by Pat Rose. Oregon Artswatch – April 15, 2021.

A profile of three of Portland’s most creative photographers. Part 3: The iPhone art of Susan Bein.

Susan Bein grew up in Los Angeles, and although her parents were not artistic themselves, they always encouraged creativity in their three children. As a child Susan already had a vivid imagination, and she used drawing and painting to interpret her world and give form to what she pictured in her mind. She was considered an “art kid” at a very early age. However, by the time she became a young teen she had grown discouraged by her inability to accurately depict her imaginings with a pencil or a paintbrush, so she tried her hand at photography as a way to capture her vision of the world.

It was a perfect fit. With her camera she now had a creative partner that allowed her to visually describe what she imagined in a way that more perfectly expressed her inner world. While still in high school, Susan took classes from Edmund Teske, the eccentric American photographer famous for his experimental photographic techniques. Throughout her teens she also took classes from some of the great photographers of their day, including Ansel Adams, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Paul Caponigro. […]

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A three-part series by Pat Rose profiling the visual lives of three exceptionally creative photographers based in Portland:

Women of Art ~ A Visual Life, Part 1: Grace Weston

Women of Art ~ A Visual Life, Part 2: Laura Kurtenbach

Women of Art ~ A Visual Life, Part 3: Susan Bein