Lou Bopp Collection

<p>Lou Bopp is a commercial photographer from St. Louis. He is based in St. Louis and New York, but frequently travels the world with his work. During an internship in London in 1989, Bopp was traveling in Europe during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photos he took there generated interest in his work and helped him decide to become a professional photographer. After returning to St. Louis, he worked as a stringer for the Associated Press before getting an internship with Sports Illustrated in New York. His time there brought him various freelance opportunities with major publications such as Vanity Fair, People Magazine, and others. His regular clients included Dan Rather, General Norman Schwarzkopf, and the New York City Marathon. One of his more famous images is of blues musician Jimmy ?Duck? Holmes which is featured on the Mississippi Bicentennial First class stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2017. As of 2021, Bopp remains an active photographer working with a wide variety of clients including national corporations, news agencies, and organizations such as Microsoft, Walmart, Capital One, CBS, CNN, and Boy Scouts of America. </p>

<p>The Lou Bopp Collection includes 129 digital photographs. All were created in St. Louis during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and reflect many of the various experiences of people living through the stay-at-home order, testing for the disease, wearing protective gear, and implementing the practices used to continue or resume working and socializing. The collection includes forty-three images from Bopp's series <i>Portraits of Mandated Isolation</i>. This series was a project Bopp created during the stay at home order to photograph his subjects either through windows or from a distance in order to capture the feeling of being isolated from the larger world during quarantine. The remaining eighty-six photos depict Covid-19- related images including testing sites for the disease, nurses and medical workers, food banks, protections in place at various businesses open for operation, and shots of people in their protective masks and gear.</p>

Lou Bopp，一位来自圣路易斯的商业摄影师。其摄影基地位于圣路易斯与纽约，然而，他常常携其作品环游世界。在1989年于伦敦的实习期间，Bopp正值柏林墙倒塌的秋季在欧洲旅行。他在那里拍摄的摄影作品引起了对其作品的兴趣，并助其下定决心成为一名职业摄影师。归国后，Bopp曾担任美联社的自由摄影师，随后在纽约获得了《体育画报》的实习机会。在那里的时光为他带来了与《名利场》、《人物》等主要出版物的合作机会。他的常客包括丹·拉瑟、诺曼·施瓦茨科普夫将军以及纽约城市马拉松。其中，他更为人所熟知的一幅作品是关于蓝调音乐家Jimmy ?Duck? Holmes，该作品被收录在美国邮政服务在2017年发行的密西西比 bicentennial 首日纪念邮票上。截至2021年，Bopp依然活跃于摄影界，与包括国家公司、新闻机构以及微软、沃尔玛、Capital One、CBS、CNN和童子军在内的各类客户保持合作关系。</p><p>《Lou Bopp 摄影集》共收录129幅数字摄影作品。这些作品均创作于2020年圣路易斯地区的COVID-19大流行期间，反映了人们在居家隔离、疾病检测、穿戴防护装备以及实施维持或恢复工作与社交活动的各项措施中所经历的种种经历。该集子包含Bopp创作的《强制隔离肖像》系列中的43幅图像。这一系列是Bopp在居家隔离期间所进行的摄影项目，旨在通过窗户或从远处拍摄主题，以捕捉隔离于更广阔世界之外的感觉。剩余的86幅照片描绘了与COVID-19相关的图像，包括疾病检测点、护士和医疗工作者、食品银行、各营业场所采取的保护措施，以及佩戴口罩和防护装备的人们。