Brad Temkin

Brad Temkin[1] (born 1956) is an American photographer. He is known for his photographs documenting the human impact on the landscape.

Temkin's works are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago[2] and Museum of Contemporary Photography.[3] His images have appeared in such publications as Aperture, Black & White Magazine, Time magazine and European Photography.

His first book was published in 2005 entitled Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens. He teaches photography at Columbia College in Chicago.

Life and work

Temkin was born in Chicago, IL.

In 2009, he began a project entitled, Rooftop, addressing what contemporary urban pioneers are doing to mitigate the consequences of non-renewable energy consumption and drawing attention to living architecture.

Publications
  • Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, Center for American Places/Columbia College, Chicago. 2005.[4]
  • Rooftop, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2015[5]
  • The State of Water, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2019. ISBN 978-1-942185-55-0

Collections

Temkin's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

gollark: We should fix this by using a superior, formally specified, parseable language.
gollark: Doesn't really seem like that?
gollark: This is a reasonable thing to be annoyed about! Dodecahedron good!
gollark: But don't make firecubez owner, due to bee.
gollark: Actually, make me owner.

References
  1. "Brad Temkin". bradtemkin.com. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  2. Brad Temkin at Art Institute of Chicago (accessed 2014-01-17).
  3. Brad Temkin at Museum of Contemporary Photography (accessed 2014-01-17).
  4. Leslie Baldacci, "Photographer captures city's gardens in a book", Chicago Sun-Times, August 1, 2006  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
  5. "Brad Temkin – Rooftop". PhotoBook Journal. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2019-10-01.

Further reading
  • "Ireland: A Troubled Mirror," Aperture, Inc., Issue No. 134 (1994)
  • European Photography, Issue No. 83, Summer, 2008
  • Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, edited by Katherine Ware, University of New Mexico Press (2011)
  • "Fixing America by Fixing America," TIME Magazine, Vol. 178, No 13 (2011)
  • "The Rise Of Living Architecture," Green Roofs For Healthy Cities, Toronto, ON (2012)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.