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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER |
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Walt Whitman Odets was born in Los Angeles, February 4, 1947 and spent his childhood in Los Angeles and New York. Over the past 45 years he has lived and photographed in New York,
Los Angeles and San Francisco and traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad. SHOWS Mine but Not Me (group show, the Miami Basel Art Fair), 2009; San Francisco Camerawork (three
person), 2007; College of Marin Fusselman Gallery, 1980; Lehigh University (group show), 1979; The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1975; Southern Illnois University, 1974; Colgate University Dana Art Center, 1972; The Focus
Gallery, San Francisco (four person), 1970; Wesleyan University Davison Art Center, 1966. The Library of Congress; The Oakland Museum (Oakland, California); The Brooklyn Museum;
Lehigh University; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New Orleans Museum of Art; Yale University Art Collection; the Stanford University Museum of Art. Dividing Space,
Fifty Seven American People and Things People Have, three books of black and white photographs, 2010. Winner of the James D. Phelan Award for photography (The San Francisco Foundation), 2007.
Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, an article on black and white photographic technique, September, 1985. Photographic Society of America PSA Journal, a portfolio of photographs, with an essay on black and
white photography, August 1984. Illogical Possibilities, a book of black and white photographs, 1983. Other Evidence, a book of black and white photographs, 1979. Communes U.S.A., a book of black and
white photographs with text by Richard Fairfield, about American communes in the 1960's and 1970's, Penguin Books, 1972. The Businessmen, a 16mm black and white film, 1972. Reconnaissance
, a book of black and white photographs, self-published, 1971. The Dinner, a 16mm black and white film, 1970. The film received a Yale University Film Festival award in 1971 and a print was acquired by the
Museum of Modern Art in the same year. The San Francisco Art Institute, instructor in small-format black and white photography, 1971. Alfa Photojournalist's Cooperative, member photographer 1969-71.
Wesleyan University, instructor in black and white photography, 1968-69. Amsco Music Publishing; Atheneum; Caedmon Records; Globe Photo; Harcourt Brace & World; Rolling Stone
Magazine; The New York Times; Modern Utopian Magazine; San Francisco Magazine; The San Francisco Examiner; Wesleyan University Center for Advanced Studies; The Burning Deck; Collier Books. Walt Odets may be contacted at
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ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT WALT WHITMAN ODETS 1965-2009 |
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