Philip Perkis

Began photography in the U.S. Air Force in 1957 while serving as B36 tail-gunner. Attended San Francisco Art Institute, studied with Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and John Collier Jr. Went to New York in 1962. He taught at many schools and offered numerous workshops around the world. Served as Chair of Photography, Pratt Institute. He was part of the graduate faculty at the School of Visual Arts and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Guggenheim Fellow, NEA and CAPS grants. Numerous solo and group exhibitions. Work is represented in many museum collections. Warwick Mountain Series (Nexus Press, Atlanta, 1978); The Sadness of Men (Quantuck Lane Press, New York, 2008); Conversation with Philip Perkis (anmoc, Seoul, 2009); In a Box Upon the Sea (anmoc, Seoul, 2015); Mexico (anmoc, Seoul, 2019); Octave (in collaboration with Cyrilla Mozenter, anmoc, Seoul, 2020); ar (in collaboration with Cyrilla Mozenter, AC Books, San Diego, 2023); Notan (anmoc, Seoul, 2024). The first edition of Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled was published in 2001 by OB Press. 

Portrait of Philip Perkis (c) Jinju Lee.