Purple Magazine
— Purple 25YRS Anniv. issue #28 F/W 2017
An ’80s Slice of City Life
by JEANNETTE MONTGOMERY BARRON
Jeannette left Atlanta in 1979 to study photography in New York. Her first job was shooting film stills for The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe, which her brother Monty and Kathryn Bigelow shot in Georgia in 1982. Before long, she was fine-tuning black-and-white portraits of artists. Her portraits captured what Ezra Pound called “an image and a vortex in a moment in time.”
