Photos and Photo Books

I began doing serious photography while a graduate student in 1965. My amateur interest turned professional as I joined Minor White's graduate program in creative photography at MIT (1970-1971) and then took an MFA under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Rhode Island School of Design (1971-1973). I taught photography until 1997, first at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, finally at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (1975-1997, interrupted by a year as visiting head of the graduate photography program at Indiana University–Bloomington 1979-1980). In 1997 I moved to Japan to teach English, Aesthetics, American Art History, and Information Technology.

Since retiring in 2009 I have undertaken to publish my photographic work in a series of volumes using the Blurb publishing service. The first in the series is Of Time and Place: US 422 East of Reading 1987-1988 documenting exurban development along that stretch of highway northwest of Philadelphia, PA in the 1980s. The second is a little volume—Chiasmata and Daphne Variations— containing two portfolios of experimental photographs I made between 1973 and 1976. The third volume, Trees, is a collection of landscapes spanning my entire career but heaviest in digital images made since 2000. The next two volumes, Photographs 1965-1977 and Fragments and Figments, complete the presentation of my work to 1980. Joining these books on the shelf is a three-volume set—China, China Pictorial, and China Journal— presenting my documentation of China 1980 through 1990. Immediately following the China books is a book of landscapes—Oregon Trails—taken since returning to Oregon in 2009. The last major piece of the publication cycle is Points Taken, a two-volume memoire and photogaphic portfolio spanning my career, Volume 1 covering silver images from 1965-1977 and Volume 2 color work after 1977.. All of these volumes are available at www.blurb.com.