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1983-2001 United States of America
1969-82 Western Europe (Germany & Spain)
1955-69 Lima, Peru

Current Projects
- Valencia Fotografiada, Photographic commission for the city of Valencia, Spain

Professional Experience
- Preservation photographer for Chicano Park Murals, San Diego, California, for CALTRANS earthquake retrofit of Coronado Bay Bridge
- Principal photographer for exhibition catalog of "Ancestors of the Incas" Wonders, Memphis, TN
- Preservation Photographer for HABS/HAER and National Park Service recordation of Warner Ranch, San Diego, California
- Principal photographer for exhibition catalogue of Titanic exhibition, Wonders, Memphis, TN
- Preservation photographer for HABS/HAER and National Park Service at the Presidio, San Francisco, CA
- Curator, "The European Edge: New Photographic Trends from Europe," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
- Co-founder/Co-director, Galerie Novum (later Oktogon), Hannover, West Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Urban Nightscapes, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
- Held in Twilight, Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, California
- Urban Heritage, Galerie Objektief, Enschede, Holland
- Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, California
- Fotomanía Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- Landesbildstelle, Hamburg, West Germany
- Terra Sancta, Terra Damnata, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, California
- Navigating by Light, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California

Selected Group Exhibitions
- Measuring Time, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
- Recorridos Fotograficos - ARCO, Fundacion Natwest, Madrid, Spain
- Perfect Moments on Planet Earth, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
- Parallel Worlds, Houston Photofest, Houston, Texas
- The European Iceberg, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
- Semana Internacional de la Fotografia, Guadalajara, Spain Selected

Travelling Group Exhibitions
- Beyond Boundaries, Curated by the Friends of Photography, San Francisco: three venues in the USA
- The Broken Vessel: Contemporary Peruvian Photography, curated by Fernando Castro three venues in the USA, one in México
- After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Monsen Collection (four venues in the USA)
- Salon Internacional de Fotografia two venues in Spain
- Night Light: A Survey of 20th.Century Night Photography from the Hallmark Collection eight venues in the USA
- La Ciutat Fantasma (The Ghost City) four venues in Spain and Canary Islands (for more detail please refer to the full resume )

Selected Corporate Collections
- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Microsoft, Seattle, Washington, USA
- The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Stein, Roe & Farnham, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- McKinsey & Company, San Francisco, California, USA
- Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, San Diego, California, USA
- Citicorp Plaza Associates, Los Angeles, California, USA

Selected Private Collections
- Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Joseph and Elaine Monsen, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Pamela Bonino, San Francisco, California, USA
- Paul Sack, San Francisco, California, USA
- Stephen White, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Joyce and Michael Axelrod, San Diego, California, USA
- Dr. Douglas Simay, San Diego, California, USA

Selected Public Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
- Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, West Germany
- Museo de Arte Fotográfico, Mexico City, D.F., México
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
- Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
- California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California, USA
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- City of Tarazona, Aragón, Spain
- IFEMA / ARCO, Colección de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
- Castelli Collection, Milan, Italy
- R.I.P. (Rencontres Internacional de la Photographie), Arles, France
- City of San Francisco, California, USA

Gallery and Dealer Representation
- Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Thomas V. Meyer, San Francisco, California, USA
- nextmonet.com, San Francisco, California, USA
- Gallery Old Town, San Diego, California, USA

 

  © 2000 Philipp Scholz Rittermann