I am a photographer, author and a former educator.
I majored in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving my BFA in 1971 and my MFA in 1974, While there I studied under photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. After receiving my BFA, I re-located for one year to London where I worked as a photographer for the cutting-edge British fashion magazine NOVA. In 1974, after receiving my MFA, I joined the faculty of Webster University in St. Louis, where I helped found and build the photographic studies program in the School of Communications. (I taught there for forty-one years after that!) For a number of years, I taught during the summer at The Darkroom in Florence, Italy.
My work has been collected by more than 25 major museums and libraries around the world and appears in numerous books and magazines. I have also published several books. My first book, Encountering Florence/Firenze un incontro (2007), includes a series of Polaroid emulsion transfers representing my encounter with the city of Florence. The book’s bi-lingual text presents accompanying word-portraits from well-known authors in their own encounters with the city. I also co-edited Kodachrome – End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches, (2011), which features a selection of photographs from among the final rolls of Kodachrome ever processed. Then in 2012, I curated a set of notecards for Chronicle Books, Kodachrome Notes, which represented another selection of images from those historic final batches.In 2016, I published a limited-edition book, reAPPEARANCES. a sequence of fifty-two photographs that takes the viewer on a journey through the uncanny coherence of the look of the world, shot with a JOCO VX5, a strange little camera produced briefly in Singapore.
I retired in 2015 and have since relocated to Norwalk. I'm currently working on a series of photographs about diners in the American northeast.
I am a photographic artist. I have been working in this medium for many years. Throughout all my different series, processes and types of cameras that I have used, I have wanted to create a moment through a still image that is slightly surreal, enigmatic, even sometimes disquieting. I have wanted to create a world the viewer is enticed to enter, or at least I should clarify, a world that I am definitely enticed to enter. For a number of years, I have been using almost exclusively various quirky toy cameras.
CvEDUCATION:
B.F.A., Photography, 1971. Rhode Island School of Design.
M.F.A., Photography, 1974. Rhode Island School of Design. (Studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.)
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, Florence; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
reAPPEARANCES. numbered limited-edition monograph of 500 (2016); Kodachrome Notes. Chronicle Books, San Francisco (2012); Kodachrome, End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches (2011) Webster University Press, St. Louis (co-edited book, wrote introductory essay, two photographs in gallery section); Encountering Florence/FIRENZE un incontro (July 2007) Palombi Editori, Rome; Webster University Press, St. Louis and Florence; Exploring Color Photography, Second Ed. R. Hirsch. Wm. C. Brown, Publ. 1993; The Visionary Pinhole. 1985 (Peregrine Smith Books); The Silver Bullet Portfolio; 1983. (R.I.); Between Twelve and Twenty. 1982 (CT.); Hatzilum (Photography) Magazine. Israel. July 1979; Images of Woman. 1977; Creative Camera International Yearbook, 1977. (London); Women See Woman. 1976 (T.Y. Crowell, Publ.); British Journal of Photography. London. April 1972; NOVA Magazine, 1971-1972 issues
Numerous one person and group exhibitions.
StateCT
CountryUSA
