Susan Friedman has a BA in Literature from the University of Buffalo and a MFA in Film and Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has won a Grammy for her documentary film on MC Hammer and Rap Culture in Oakland, California; a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for her documentary, "Ki ho alu, That's Slack Key Guitar." Her recent film, "What's Up in the Universe," is currently on PBS and was funded by the National Science Foundation. She feels strongly that and artist must do everything possible to give voice to what moves them. Her work has gone from documentary film to photography and experimenting with alternative techniques. She has utilized the platinum/palladium printing process in an intriguing series of florals, creating imagery that will not fade. Susan Friedman's work can be found in the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and she has shown in noted galleries in the USA and Europe.
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Now in its twenty-fifth year, Image Conscious is a San Francisco-based publisher and distributor of fine art prints. The continued success of Image Conscious owes much to its awareness of trends in style and decoration, always looking for originality and quality of technique when selecting images to publish. The Image Conscious 2008 catalogue includes a particularly wide selection of photographic and ethnic images but also contains some superb abstract and landscape prints.