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March 21, 1949 |
Born in Buffalo N.Y. Family moved to San Francisco
in 1950. Graduated from Lick-Wilmerding H.S. in 1968. |
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1969 |
Attended Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite |
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1970 - 1973 |
Assisted Adams and workshop staff at numerous
Yosemite workshops during this span. Worked with Adams in the
field and darkroom, as well as helped with workshop logistics
and instruction. |
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1973 |
Graduated Cum Laude from San Francisco State with a degree
in Art and minor in Geology. Also studied with Ruth Bernhard
through UC Extension. |
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1973 |
Taught Photography at Urban School, San Francisco. |
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1973 |
Moved to Halcott Center, New York, a small farm
valley in the Catskill Mtns. For two years photographed extensively
for a book of photographs of Halcott. Book completed in 1976,
with an introduction by Ansel Adams(unpublished, but produced
in 1993 as a handmade book). |
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1975 |
Returned to SF and began working as a freelance
photographer. Published Halcott Center; Twelve Photographs,
a portfolio of original prints. Edition limited to 55 sets. |
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1977 |
Taught photography at Merced Community College, in California's
San Joaquin Valley. |
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1982 |
Participated in Meniscus portfolio, an independent project
involving 15 photographers of local, national, and international
reputation. |
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1982 |
Joined faculty of the University of California
Berkeley Extension, teaching classes in Large Format Photography,
Black and White Darkroom Technique, Lighting, and workshops
in Architectural Photography, as well as location workshops
in Death Valley, the High Sierra, and Yosemite. Began teaching
for UC Santa Cruz in 1988. |
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1982 |
Started specializing in Architectural Photography as a "commercial"
field. Architectural subject matter also became a major theme
in my personal work around this time. |
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1985 |
Began work on a project on architecture in the national parks.
Photography completed in 1989. Project's working title is Unnatural
Wonders: Architecture in the National Parks. |
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1986 |
Charter member and co-chair of BASAP, the Bay
Area Society of Architectural Photographers, working under the
auspices of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP). |
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1990 - 1994 |
Photographed an immense construction site in
the SW corner of San Francisco |
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1991 |
Began making "vellum" prints, a unique process
using a toning procedure of my own invention. |
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1992 |
Completed first in a series of "Hand-made Books":
25 Years. Limited to 22 copies. |
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1993 |
Completed second "hand-made book": Halcott Center.
A limited edition of 11. |
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1996 |
Completed third "hand-made book": Coastside Plant.
Produced in an edition of 16. |
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1999 |
Publication of monograph, Along the Way,
by Custom and Limited Editions, San Francisco |
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2000 |
Photographed the home of 19th century French
photographer Felix Thollier, in the Forez in central France |
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2000 - 2003 |
Selected by the University of California San
Francisco to document the construction of the massive Mission
Bay biotech campus. |
