Curriculum Vitae

Robert Altman Photography
2215 Market Street
San Francisco, CA. 94114

415 864-6200

robert@altmanphoto.com

http://www.altmanphoto.com/

"Robert Altman's photography was instrumental in portraying the look and feeling and vitality of the Sixties."
Jann Wenner, Editor and Publisher, Rolling Stone


"I just spent an incredible hour with Robert Altman. His photographs just blew my mind. I think he captured today the way Steichen captured yesterday."
Peter Max, Artist - 1969

 

“Robert Altman was a witness to one of the most colorful decades in American history. He photographed it with a passion and was an integral part of the whole scene, documenting it for posterity.”
Jim Marshall, Photographer


“Robert Altman captured the images of many iconic figures of the Sixties, individuals who helped liberate the souls of countless others. These celebrated photographs are an illustrious record of an amazing era..”
Paul Krassner
, Satirist, Publisher/Editor of "The Realist"


"One of Rolling Stone's first group of brilliant photographers"
Ben Fong-Torres, Author, Radio Personality


"One of this century's finest photographers..."
Woodstock '69 Gallery


"The world renowned rock photographer Altman has amassed a body of work that has made him one of rock and roll's greatest photographers. Since the Sixties Altman has established a legendary body of work."
The ArtRock Gallery

 

Representation

ArtVision Exhibitions, LLC
9609 Carousel Circle North
Boca Raton, FL 33434

Retna Ltd.
New York, Paris, London
24 West 25th Street
NYC, NY 10001

Morrisson Hotel Gallery
124 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012-3103

Getty Images/The Michael Ochs Archive
6300 Wilshire, Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Marx & Zavattero Galley
77 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

The San Francisco Art Exchange
458 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133

Chief Staff Photographer- Rolling Stone Magazine
1969-1971

Robert Altman Studio, San Francisco
1975-2000

Adjunct Professor and Instructor
1995 - 2005
Web Design, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
• Center for Electronic Art
• San Francisco State University
MultiMedia Studies Program
• University of California Extension
Fine Arts and Graphic Design
• Photo Metro Digital Workshop

 

 

Recent and Upcoming Speaking Engagements

The Palm Beach County Library
Delray Beach, FL
January 2009

Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA
October 10, 2007 7 PM
Marx & Zavattero Galley
77 Geary Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA
January 19, 2008 3 PM
Digital Media Arts College
3785 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL
April 20, 2007 6-8 PM
The Learning Annex
An Evening With Robert Altman
San Francisco, CA
May 17, 2007 7 PM

 

Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions
The Idea Generation Gallery
The Sixties: A Photographic Exhibition by Robert Altman
London, The United Kingdom ~16th July – 15th August 2008
The Millenia Fine Art
Time Warner Center
NYC, NY ~ May 2008

Nobody's In Control-
The History of Rock and Roll Photography
The Brooklyn Museum of Art ~ February 2009
Heather Marx Gallery
Union Square, San Francisco
Robert Altman's Sixties
January 2008
Sound and Vision
Abbey Road Studios, London
February 2008

Book Launch and Exhibit
The Plant Recording Studio
Sausalito, CA ~August 2007

V!P's International Art Galleries
The Rolling Stones 'Decca Years'
Rotterdam ~ December 2007

The San Francisco Art Exchange
Molding A Generation: 1967 ~ 69
September 2007

The Beat Museum
San Francisco
September 2007 ~ March 2008

The Library of Congress
Permanent Collection

Washington, DC

The Smithsonian Institution
The Education Resource Room
Washington, DC

Freecity
Malibu, CA
August 2007 - January 2008

The Museum at Bethel Woods
Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Bethel, NY ~ Ongoing

Excellent Experience Gallery
The Art of Rock'n Roll
Morgan Stanley of California
December 2006 ~ Ongoing 2007

It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Gallery 3175, San Francisco
September 2006


Redferns Music Picture Gallery
3 Bramley Road, London
Chuck Berry Exhibit 2005

The San Francisco
Public Library
January, 2005
Permanent Collection

The San Francisco
Public Library
Induction into the
Historic Association
November 8, 2003
The Rock Poster Society
Hall of Flowers
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
November 2003 and 2004
The San Francisco
Art Exchange Gallery
Permanent Collection
 

KCBS-FM Los Angeles
Arrowfest
October 2003
October 2004

The San Francisco History Association
Lecture and Photo Exhibit
May 22, 2003
SIAL Exhibit
Summer of Love
Paris, France
November 2002

Golden Isles Arts & Humanities
Georgia Historical Society
Robert Altman's 60's
Sept 13 - Oct 12, 2002

The Kodak Rock Photography Collection
Traveling Exhibit
Fall 2002 - Ongoing

Center for the Arts
Photo Gallery
Yerba Buena Center
San Francisco
May - July 2002
StudioZ Gallery
San Francisco
Robert Altman's 60's
Aug 1 - 27, 2002

Columbus Circle Gallery
NYC, NY
Spring 2001- Jan. 2003

The Hot Springs Center
"Portrait of an Era:
Robert Altman's 60's"

Hot Springs, AR
October 2001- Spring 2002
Prestige Galleries
Dallas, Texas
Summer 2001

 

Jon Sims Center
for the Arts
San Francisco
May - July 2002

The ArtRock Gallery
30 Years of Music Photography
San Francisco
June 20 - Aug. 9 1997

 

Richard Goodall Gallery
Manchester
United Kingdom
June - July 2000

 

The Museum of the City
of San Francisco
with Linda McCartney
Aug. 29 - Oct. 12 1997

 

The Ansel Adams Center
for Photography
Summer of Love: Revolution & Evolution
June 25 through September 7, 1997

 

Peña Pacha Mama
1630 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA
August 2001- Ongoing
Worknet Reklameyra
The Sixties
Oslo, Norway
August 2000
The Newseum
Madison Avenue
New York
June 1995

Soma Cafe Art Gallery
San Francisco
Dec 1999 ~ Jan 2000
Recent Clients

NBC CBS ABC PBS VH1 MTV  
General Motors
Sony Music
Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon
'Almost Famous' - SKG
Vanity Fair
Le Monde 2
The New York Times Magazine
A & E Network
Grateful Dead Productions
Colombia Records
A T & T
Rhino Records
People Magazine
Mojo Magazine
The New York Times
Rolling Stone Magazine
Seven Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Magazine
7 X 7 Magazine
San Francisco Examiner
The Newseum
Solimar Magazine
Ramparts Magazine
Simon & Shuster
Info World
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Esprit Corp.
Now Magazine
The San Francisco Weekly
Auto World Magazine
Ameriprise Financial
Entertainment Weekly
American Edu. Assn.
Guitar Player Fox Network SF Weekly

 

 

Recent and Upcoming Books

Something in the Air:
Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation
by Marc Fisher
Random House 2007

America Dreaming:
How Youth Changed America
Laban Hill
Little, Brown
November 1, 2007

The Sixties
Photographs by Robert Altman

Foreward by Ben Fong-Torres
Santa Monica Press
August 2007

The Rolling Stones 365 Days
by Simon Wells; Images Getty
with Robert Altman/Retna
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Oct 2006

Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
by Paul Trynka
Broadway Books, Random House
February, 2007

America Dreaming:
Coming of Age to Change America
By Laban Carrick Hill
Little Brown Books
Spring 2007

The Rolling Stones and
the making of Let It Bleed
by Sean Egan
Unanimous Ltd,
M Q Publications 2005

Book Cover
Timothy Leary-
I Have America Surrounded
by John Higgs 2006
Friday Project, Ltd. London

 

Book Cover
Timothy Leary: An Experimental Life
Robert Greenfield
Harcourt, Inc 2006

LSD: My Problem Child
Albert Hoffmann, PhD
MAPS Publishers
2005

 

Book Cover
Grievous Angel:
An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons
by Jessica Hundley and Polly Parsons
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005

Eight Miles High
Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock
by Richie Unterberger 2005

Book Cover
Who the Hell is
Stew Albert
by Stewart Edward Albert
Red Hen Press 2004


Book Cover
Sing My Way Back Home
Voices Of The New American
Roots Rock
by Keith and Kent Zimmerman
Backbeat Books 2004

Monday Night Class
Revised & Annotated Edition
by Stephen Gaskin
Book Publishing Company 2005

Jefferson Airplane
Jeff Tamarkin
Pocket Books, 2003
The Grateful Dead
Dennis McNally
Macmillan, Fall 2002
Old Gods Almost Dead-
The Rolling Stones
Stephen Davis
Broadway Books, 2001

 

Book Cover
Rolling Stone
The Complete Covers
1967-1997
Wenner Media, 1999

Garcia,
An American Life
Blair Jackson
Viking, 1999

The American Century
Harold Evans
Knoph, 1999

 

 

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