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Background |
Photographer Robert Holmgren has shot assignments for a wide variety of publications such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Smithsonian and National Geographic. Much of this work involved environmental portrature of prominent individuals such as Tiger Woods, Steve Young, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the founders of Yahoo, Google, Intel and countless others. To see tearsheets of published commercial work click here.
As a result of this experience, Holmgren joined with a handful of other magazine photographers to found Editorial Photographers, an organization that seeks to educate photographers about business practices and to assist in negotiating with publishers on behalf of this community. The organization grew to approximately 4000 photographers around the world and maintains an online resource to assist working photographers. Robert Holmgren sells stock images through Getty Images, Jupiter Images and Peter Arnold Inc.
Throughout this period he has maintained a steady production of personal picture taking and is currently focused on producing prints from this work as well as in ongoing personal projects such as those seen on this site. For an online interview click here. |
Education |
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute
BS, Southern Illinois University |
Awards |
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship, 1984
American Photographer, New Faces, top award fine art category, 1984
Society of Publication Designers, Gold Award, 1992 |
Collections |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Michigan State University, Kresge Gallery, East Lansing, MI
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
Publications (fine art related) |
Camera Magazine (Swiss), 1972, 74
Glass Eye (Japan), 1976
American Photographer, 1984
Making of a Collection, Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984
Communication Arts, 1992, 1996, 1997
The 2nd Tokyo International Biennale, 1997
Photography, London and Upton, 6th edition, Longman 1998
AG, The International Journal of Photographic Art and Practice (UK), 2006 |
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