Revisiting The Garry Winogrand Archive
Leo Rubinfien
American photographer and essayist (born )
Leo Rubinfien (born ) is an American photographer and essayist who lives and works in New York City. Rubinfien first came to prominence as part of the circle of artist-photographers who investigated new color techniques and materials in the s.
Among his principal bodies of photography are A Map of The East (), which explores the character and idiosyncrasies of Japan, China and Southeast Asia; and Wounded Cities (), which explores the "mental wounds" that were left by the terror attacks in New York City in , and other attacks in cities around the world.[1] He has had a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
He has also curated exhibitions.
Rubinfien is also a writer, who has published essays on major photographers of the 20th century. He contributed a memoir, Colors of Daylight to Starburst: Color Photography in America, (). He is co-author of Shomei Tomatsu / Skin of the Nation () and editor of Garry Winogrand ().
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and his work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Garry winogrand photography He is co-author of Shomei Tomatsu / Skin of the Nation () and editor of Garry Winogrand (). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and his work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Rubinfien was born in Chicago and grew up in Japan.Rubinfien was born in Chicago and grew up in Japan. He attended Reed College from , and then the California Institute of the Arts, where obtained his BFA in He then went on to receive his MFA from Yale University in [2][3] He is an assistant professor at Fordham University.[4]
Publications
Books of photographs by Rubinfien
- A Map of the East. Boston: D.R.
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- 10 Takeoffs 5 Landings. Robert Mann Gallery, ASIN&#;BPBJ0Y.
- Wounded Cities. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, ISBN&#; Photographs and a personal and historical essay by Rubinfien in Wounded Cities, which recounts the attacks of September 11th, and the years that followed.[5]
- The Ardbeg. Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery and Kurenboh, With an essay by Rubinfien.
Edition of copies.
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- Paths through the Global City. Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University,
- Kizu Tsuita no Machi = "Wounded Cities". Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art,
- New Turns in Old Roads. Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery,
Publications edited by Rubinfien
Publications with contributions by Rubinfien
Awards
Collections
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Philadelphia College of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Seibu Art Forum, Sezon Museum, Tokyo
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artists' Loft & Gallery, Galveston, Texas
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Kurenboh, Tokyo
- Iris & B.
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA[11]
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo[12][13]
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Art Academy of Cincinnati
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome