Laurence Salzmann Figurative Photography

this is a rare (possibly unique) vintage silver gelatin emulsion print of the artist's daughter, it is signed and dated 1980. Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His most recent work in Cuba is soon to be published in book form by Blue Flower Press under the title: La Lucha/The Struggle. Salzmann's photographic method is deeply informed by his background in anthropology and involves long term participation in and observation of groups or events. His work illustrates how lives and events are shaped by the environments and conditions in which people live. 1944 Born in Philadelphia, PA EDUCATION 1971 MA Anthropology, Temple University 1965 BA German Literature, Temple University 1962 Film Studies, I.D.H.E.C., Paris LANGUAGES: Fluent: French, German, Romanian, Spanish; some Turkish. PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS & HONORS 2004 Blue Mountain Center, Residency 2003 The Print Center and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program: selected for a digitally printed mural at the new Eagles Stadium 2001 Puffin Foundation grant for photographic work on La Lucha/The Struggle 2001 Pew Fellowship in Photography 2001 Perkins Art Center Purchase Award for The Philadelphia Museum of Art 2001 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Fellowship Award in Photography 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Travel Face to Face Book and Exhibit 1981-82 International Research & Exchanges Board Grant in photography to Romania 1974-76 Fulbright Fellow in Photography to Romania 1970 American Film Institute Grant for film, Eddie SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2006-2005 VIAJEROS: North American Artists/Photograhers Images of Cuba Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University 2005 Powelton Photographs, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia 2004 Bound to Nothing, Photographers & sculptors, Mother dog Studios, Houston Texas 2003 Childbirth in Jewish Tradition, The Jewish Museum of London 2002 Viewing Photography: The Photo Review at 25, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery The University of the Arts 2001 Works on Paper 2001, Arcadia University 2000 Our Town, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia 2000 Work from the Collection by Philadelphia-Area Photographers The Philadelphia Museum of Art 1999 The Changing Face of Family, The Jewish Museum Jewish Museum, New York 1997 Art & Religion: The Many Faces of Faith, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia 1997 Here and There; Then and Now: Jewish Life In and Out of the Former Soviet Union National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C. 1996 Be Fruitful and Multiply, Beth Hatefusoth available on-line @ AOL Jewish 1995 A Year in the Life of Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Art Alliance 1993 Flesh&Blood, Friends of Photography, Mt. Carmel 1992 Mexico Through Foreign Eyes,(Mexico visto por ojos extranjeros). Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, International Center for Photography, New York, Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Cultural Center 1989-88 Manner Sehen Manner, show organized by Foster Gallery, Edinburgh Ten European Cities 1989-88 Behold the Man, show organized by Frankfurt Kunstverein 1988 Paris Month of Photography, Paris 1984 Contemporary Pennsylvania Photographers, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1984 Invited Group Show, Jeffery Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia 1983 Camera Movements, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia 1981 Male Figures, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery 1979 New Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery 1979 Pennsylvania Photographers,Allentown Art Museum Benefit Israel Museum,Witkin Gallery 1972 City/2, Philadelphia Art Museum 1971 Tlaxcalan Sketches, Philadelphia Art Alliance BOOKS/CATALOGS and Photographs included in Books 2006 La Lucha/The Struggle, Blue Flower Press, Philadelphia (catalogue) 2005 De Noche//By Night, Artist's Book, Philadelphia 2002 Imagining Cutumba, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (catalogue) 1999 Miorita: An icon of Romanian Culture, (ed.) with an introduction by Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Essay by Alexandru Husar, Photographs by Laurence Salzmann, The Center for Romanian Studies, Iassi, Romania 1995 Face to Face: Encounters between Jews & Blacks, Blue Flower Press 1995 Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography...