Bob Adelman

Documentary Photographer & Book Producer
Website: bobadelman.net

MAGAZINES: Photographs for Cover Stories: Esquire, TIME, People, LIFE, New York, Harper’s, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Fortune, American Heritage, The London Times Magazine, Stern, Look, Paris Match, USIA Publications.

BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHED AND PRODUCED: Down Home; On and Off the Street; Street Smart; Gentleman of Leisure; Ladies of the Night; Out of Left Field, all with Susan Hall; The Next America with Michael Harrington; The Reagan Report; It Grows on You: A Hair Raising Survey of Human Plumage with Roy Blount Jr.; The Art of Roy Lichtenstein, essay by Calvin Tompkins, photographs and interview by Bob Adelman; Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver, introduction by Tess Gallagher; Visions of Liberty: The Bill of Rights For All Americans by Ira Glasser, photographs by Bob Adelman; King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Charles Johnson and Bob Adelman; Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights, essays by Charles Johnson, photographs by Bob Adelman; New York Times Book Company: developed and photographed the Sidewalk Reading program; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Random House, Dell Publishing: preparation of educational material.

BOOKS PRODUCED: Pollock Painting, photographs by Hans Namuth; Bruce Davidson Photographs; Brancusi Photographs; Sculptor’s Drawings; Arsenal of Democracy by Tom Gervasi; Soviet Military Power: The Annotated and Corrected Version of the Pentagon’s Guide by Tom Gervasi; The Film Encyclopedia by Ephriam Katz; Pictures Under Discussion; LIFE Classic Photographs; LIFE Faces; Celebrating the Negative; LIFE Photographers: What They Saw, all by John Loengard; Born to Run Things: An Utterly Unauthorized Biography of George Bush by Tony Hendra; Grace: An Intimate Portrait of Princess Grace by Howell Conant; Brad ’61: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, An Original Romance by Tony Hendra, Inspired by the Pop Paintings of Roy Lichtenstein; Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America’s Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s by Bob Adelman, commentary by Richard Merkin, introduction by Art Spiegelman; The London Sunday Times 1000 Makers of the Cinema; Roy Lichtenstein’s ABC by Bob Adelman; Magic Movie Moments by Bob Adelman, Michael Rand, and George Perry, introduction by Terry Gilliam; Sinatra: An Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year, photographs by John Dominis, text by Richard B. Stolley; Remembering Jack by Jacques Lowe, text by Hugh Sidey; LIFE: The Great Photographers by the editors of LIFE; As I See It by John Loengard, introduction by Ann Beattie; LIFE: Remembering Grace; LIFE: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

TEACHING: International Center for Photography, The New School, School of Visual Arts. Lectured at Columbia University, Stanford University, Union College, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Minnesota, Miami University, Ohio State University, Steamboat Falls Workshop, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

PORTFOLIOS: Camera, Popular Photography Annual, Photo, My Brother’s Keeper.

AWARDS: Guggenheim Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts Grant; Art Director’s Club Awards: New York, Washington, San Francisco; American Institute of Graphic Arts 50 Books Awards; University of Missouri School of Journalism.

EXHIBITS: Smithsonian Museum, Martha Jackson Gallery, Margaret Mitchell House, American Federation of the Arts, Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Howard Greenberg Gallery, Westwood Gallery, Boca Raton Museum of Fine Arts, High Museum. Photographs in the Collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Getty Museum, High Museum, Hallmark Collection, Boca Raton Museum & private collections.

EDUCATION: B.A., Rutgers; Law Studies, Harvard; M.A. Philosophy, Columbia