User:Steve Harper Photographer

Steve Harper was born on 24 January, 1931.

He is a self-taught photographer having gained his initial insights into photography from standing in front of the cameras of Horst, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Harold Kreiger and Howell Conant among others, as a model and television actor with the Ford Agency in new York City, 1959 to 1969.

He was an instructor at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California from 1979 -1990, where he researched and taught the first college-level course in night Photography in both black and white and color. His students,most notably, Lance Keimig, www.thenightskye.com, Tim Baskerville, www.thenocturnes.com and Tom Paiva have carried on his teachings and expanded upon them with the advent of the digital camera.

Shows: Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1984 Min Gallery, Tokyo, 1986 Darkness-Darkness, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, March 18-April 30, 1008 Boston Convention Center, May-September,2008

Featured in Articles and Books: Photo Metro Magazine, November, 1980, 1986, 1989. 1992 Night Watch, Popular Photography, George Schaub, December 1985 Darkroom Photography Magazine, Dark Ventures, Steve Harper, November, 1987 Architectural Digest, Boston, Massachusetts, Volume 10, November 4, July-August 2008 Night and Low Light Photography, Amphoto Books, Jill Waterman. 2008

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