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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 fashion photography and fine art. He became a television producer/director for KEMO-TV, an independent station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Altman has exhibited at Abbey Road Studios in London, The Beat Museum in San Francisco, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the Newseum in New York City, the Georgia Historical Society; and Worknet Reklameyra in Oslo. 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, and the Kodak Rock Photography Collection.
During the summer of 2009, Altman collaborated with Macy’s Herald Square in New York and filled most of the store's 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.
Accolades
“Altman's particular genius... succeeds beautifully." —Publishers Weekly Review
"Mr. Altman is probably unapproachable in photography as a perfect blend of photojournalist and star-shooter. . . . Without this imagery, many of the heroes of that generation may not have been as deified as they became." —Fierce Magazine
"Robert Altman's photography was instrumental in portraying the look and feeling and vitality of the sixties." —Jann Wenner, editor, founder and publisher, Rolling Stone magazine
"His photographs just blew my mind. I think he captured today (1969) the way Steichen captured yesterday." —Peter Max
Robert Altman was a witness to one of the most colorful decades in American history. He photographed it with a passion and was an integral part of the whole scene documenting it for posterity" —Jim Marshall, photographer
"These celebrated photographs are an illustrious record of an amazing era." —Paul Krassner, founder and editor, The Realist
"One of the best graphic depictions yet offered of this fleeting, illusory chapter of cultural history." —The Bloomsbury Review
"Robert Altman visually documented the changes that rocked the 60s with a scope and clarity no one has surpassed." —Bookpage- America's Book Review
“The Sixties is an extraordinary testament to Altman's talent - there isn't a bad shot among them. It is a delight to leaf through a book that is not only full of exceptional photographs, but also oozes the optimism and vibrancy of the 1960s, just the way you'd imagine it to be." —The Royal Photographic Society Journal Review
Publications
The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman. Santa Monica Press (2007) ISBN 1-59580-024-7 ISBN 978-1-59580-024-4
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