Jock Sturges: Notes (2004, Aperture, NY).

Jock Sturges: Twenty-Five Years (2004, Paul Cava Fine Art, Bala Cynwyd, PA).

Evolution of Grace (1994, Gakken, Tokyo).

Radiant Identities (1994, Aperture, NY).

The band Ride used some of his photographs on different releases, i.e.: the Twisterella and Leave them All Behind EPs. His photographs appear as cover art on three novels by Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell, Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled, as well as Karl Ove Knausgård's 1998 debut novel Ute av verden ( Out of the World). In 1998 unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in the U.S. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him. In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers and his equipment seized. His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States.

He has taken some digital photographs but prefers to work with prints. Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. Much of his work features Californian Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a young child until in her twenties.

His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort CHM Montalivet in Montalivet, France. He graduated with a BFA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. From 1966 to 1970 he served in the United States Navy as a Russian linguist.

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