John Pfahl

John Pfahl (February 17, 1939 – April 15, 2020) was an American photographer.[1]

Life

Pfahl was born in New York City and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey.[2] He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and his MA from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, from 1968 to 1983. Later he was professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In 2012 he taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Pfahl died from COVID-19 on April 15, 2020, in Buffalo, New York during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[1][3]

Publications

• A Distanced Land – The Photographs of John Pfahl. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8263-1214-4.
• With Rebecca Solnit: Extreme Horticulture. London: Frances Lincoln, 2003. ISBN 978-0711220126.

Collections

Pfahl's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Art Institute of Chicago: 81 prints (as of January 2021)[4]
• Cleveland Museum of Art: 3 prints (as of January 2021)[5]
• George Eastman House International Museum of Photography[6]
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles[7]
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 17 prints (as of January 2021)[8]

See also

• List of photographers
• Land art

References

1. Sandomir, Richard (23 April 2020). "John Pfahl, Photographer Who Played With Landscapes, Dies at 81". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-30 – via NYTimes.com.
2. "John Pfahl". International Center of Photography. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
3. Neville, Anne (18 April 2020). "John Pfahl, 81, world renowned photographer focused lens on Buffalo". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
4. "John Pfahl". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
5. "Search the Collection". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
6. "Works | John Pfahl | People | George Eastman Museum". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
7. "John Pfahl". www.moca.org. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
8. "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2021-01-22.

External links

• George Eastman House: John Pfahl
• Pfahl's site Archived 2020-05-01 at the Wayback Machine