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Robert Mark Altman (born October, 1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams.
He was soon hired as a photojournalist by Rolling Stone magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for Rolling Stone he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art. He also became a television producer/director for KEMO-TV, an independent station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Besides the United States, Mr. Altman has exhibited globally in cities such as London and Paris at such diverse venues as Abbey Road Studios, London; The Beat Museum, San Francisco; Bethel Woods Center for the Arts; the Newseum, New York City; the Georgia Historical Society; and Worknet Reklameyra, Oslo, Norway. Altman has been published in dozens of books, magazines and newspapers and his work is a part of the permanent collections of The San Francisco Public Library, The Library of Congress in Washington DC, The Smithsonian Institution, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Kodak Rock Photography Collection, and indeed, even Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon has utilized his work.
During the summer of 2009 Mr. Altman collaborated with Macy’s Herald Square in New York and filled most of their 49 windows with 175 images of his work as part of their “Art Under Glass" series.
In the 1990s he transitioned from film media to digital media and is now active as a digital photographer.
In May 2010 he was presented with a Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa from Digital Media Arts College.
Publications
The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman. Santa Monica Press (2007) ISBN 1-59580-024-7 ISBN 978-1-59580-024-4
External links
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