"His first professional step devoted to photography began with a self-initiated study of the morgue. He calls the series "Listen..." or "Morgue Work", and from 1972 to 1974 Silverthorne engaged in a one-way dialogue with death."
Morgue by JeffreySilverthorne Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2017 by Stanley/Barker ISBN-13: 978-0-9955555-6-3, ISBN: 0-9955555-6-7
"Over the past 35 years, writes Annie Proulx (author of Brokeback Mountain and The Shipping News) in her introduction to this retrospective look at the photographic oeuvre of Jeffrey Silverthorne (born 1946), "Silverthorne has photographed authority figures, nudes, prostitutes, prisoners, illegal immigrants, border bars and cheap hotel rooms, carnival denizens, people in the fringe worlds of American society, moribund animals, himself an ..."
"For forty-five years, Jeffrey Silverthorne has been working steadily on an extensive body of work. With a background in the fine arts and the American photographic tradition, Silverthorne developed a photographic oeuvre that moves and balances between personal experiences, public spaces of presentation, and staged scenes.His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of ..."
"In Nuevo Laredo, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, complexes of sex clubs called Boystowns cater to American men, and a few Mexicans, who wish to watch women take off their clothes and perhaps to pay for sex with one of them. Photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne (born 1946), who has in the past made photographs of landscapes, still lifes, portraits of transvestites and of dead bodies in a morgue, photographed the women who sell their b ..."
"American photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne once again comes back to the two themes which inspire him most: nudity, but most of all death. Travel Plans contains a great variety of pictures ranging from the morbid to the absurd and from the beautiful to the sad. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Noorderlicht gallery in Groningen. These collected photographs are not for the weak-hearted."