Brad Temkin[1] (Chicago 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,[4] Time magazine and European Photography. 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. In 2019, he published a new book, The State of Water, that had an accompanying exhibition organized by The Field Museum and supported with a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim foundation. Temkin has taught photography at Columbia College Chicago since 1984.

Life and work

His first book, Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, was published in 2005.


Publications

  • Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, Center for American Places/Columbia College, Chicago. 2005.[5]
  • Rooftop, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2015[6]
  • 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:

References

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

Further reading

  • "Ireland: A Troubled Mirror". Aperture. 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. Vol. 178, No 13 (2011)
  • "The Rise Of Living Architecture". Green Roofs For Healthy Cities. Toronto, ON (2012)
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