Tim Nighswander

Purple Tulip 16, Color Photograph, Limited Edition, Framed, Botanical, Flower

2021

Tim Nighswander's career in photography began in college at Kent State University and has led him from photojournalism and award-winning commercial photography to his current status as a sought-after photographer in the specialized field of photographing fine art. In 2004, after 20 years of being The Albers Foundation's primary photographer, Tim worked with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation to convert the collection’s archives from film to the latest in digital photography. In 2008, he founded Imaging4Art together with his wife, Diane. Tim has photographed comprehensive art collections throughout the U.S. for clients including The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Glenstone Museum, and The Barnes Foundation. Other clients who rely on Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART for high-resolution photography include MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, David Zwirner, Matthew Marks, Luhring Augustine, and Lévy Gorvy. In his work, Tim is given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture by many of the world's greatest artists – from Leonardo da Vinci to Yayoi Kusama - working beside some of the world’s most highly-regarded curators, art historians, conservators and collectors. Exposure to this art and body of knowledge has given Tim great understanding of themes and through-lines that have been a consistent part of his personal imagery. Recently this has coalesced into new avenues to explore, which is why, as a photographer who has dedicated his career to showcasing the work of other artists in the light they deserve, Tim has decided to share his personal photography with the public. According to Nightwander, "My goal as a photographer is to remain open to seeing beyond the obvious...to be aware of my surroundings: to seek out the unique, the accidental juxtapositions, small gestures, everyday abstractions and fleeting moments that would otherwise be ignored and lost forever." This botanical series of photographs dance and focus on the details and textures of each flower.