Janet Fries
American,
b. 1949
Janet Fries received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1971), and her Master of Arts in Photography from San Francisco State University (1976). Fries has been a freelance photographer since 1973, specializing in photojournalism. She also teaches at City College of San Francisco (since 1977) and at the University of California Extension Center in San Francisco (since 1978). Working exclusively in small format, Janet Fries has used both black-and-white and color, and she makes experimental color prints from hand-painted black-and-white negatives.