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Leo Rubinfien

Leo Rubinfien, a photographer, author, and curator, was born in Chicago in 1953 and grew up in the Midwest and in Japan. Rubinfien graduated from the Yale University School of Art in 1976 and began exhibiting his works soon after. Rubinfien describes himself as an “insatiable traveler ,” and his early work was characterized by an attention to what would eventually be referred to as globalization.

A Map of the East, Rubinfien’s first book of photographs, was the source for his one-person exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992. The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibited works from his latest publication, Wounded Cities, a response to the tragedy of 9/11. In 2009, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University received a gift of 27 photographs from A Map of the East and Wounded Cities, and these works form the core of an exhibition entitled “Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien" at Stanford University, from February 2 through May 1, 2011.

Rubinfien lives in New York City, New York.

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Rubinfien's exhibition history is published online by Robert Mann Gallery: http://www.robertmann.com/artists/rubinfien/about.html

Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien, is on view at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, February 2 through May 1, 2011.

A Map of the East and Wounded Cities are published by Steid.

The exhibition Wounded Cities: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien was on view at Corcoran Gallery of Art, October 18, 2008–February 17, 2009.

___________________________________________ === References === 1. 	^ 	Corcoran Gallery of Art (2008). Wounded Cities Photographs by Leo Rubinfien. (Online press release publicizing the exhibition.) Retrieved on August 19, 2010.