Robert Dawson Photography
<span class="text"><font color="#000000" class="text"> <p> <img alt="" src="/users/RobertDawson6569/Image//Dawson-+-the-Roosevelts-Hyd.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 7px; margin-bottom: 7px; float: left; width: 250px; height: 232px; " /><strong>ROBERT DAWSON</strong></p> <p> <strong>About the Photographer</strong></p> <p> Robert Dawson has long been interested in how photography can be used to understand our relationship with the environment. He is also interested in photography’s ability to shape public awareness and understanding of the place we call home.<br /> <br /> Mr. Dawson's photographs have been recognized by a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment For the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Photographer's Work Grant from the Maine Photographic Workshops, a James D. Phelan Award through the San Francisco Foundation, and a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University. He served as a Panelist for the Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography for the National Endowment For the Arts in Washington, DC.<br /> <br /> Mr. Dawson's photographs have been widely exhibited and are in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art, (Smithsonian Institution) Washington, DC; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Center For Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris: and the Carpenter Center For the Visual Arts at Harvard University.<br /> <br /> Mr. Dawson was born in Sacramento, California in 1950. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1972 and his M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1979. Dawson served as a member of the Board of Directors of San Francisco Camerawork and later of the Friends of Photography. He is a founding member and continues to serve on the Board of PhotoAlliance. He has been an Instructor of Photography at San Jose State University since 1986 and is now an Instructor of Photography at Stanford University since 1996.</p> <p> To purchase or ask questions about Robert Dawson's work please contact Scott Nichols Gallery at info@scottnicholsgallery.com. To contact Robert Dawson directly please email landscape@igc.org.</p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Selected Resume</strong></p> <p> SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS<br /> James and Doris McNamara Fund, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2009 and 2010 Columbia Foundation Grant, San Francisco, CA for the New Deal Legacy Project, Co-recipient, 2004<br /> Best Book of the Year Award, New York Times, New York, NY, Co-recipient, 1993<br /> Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University, Co-recipient, 1992<br /> Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment For the Arts, 1988<br /> New Faces Award, American Photographer, New York, NY, 1986<br /> Ruttenberg Fellowship, Friends of Photography, 1984<br /> The Photographer's Work Grant, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1984<br /> California Arts Council Grant, Co-recipient, 1984<br /> California Council For the Humanities Grant, Co-recipient, 1984<br /> James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, 1982</p> <p> SELECTED PUBLICATIONS <em>Infinite City A San Francisco Atlas</em>,University of California Press, Berkeley, CA edited by Rebecca Solnit 2010 <em>Into the Sunset Photography's Image of the American West</em>, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2009 <em>What We Share Photographic Projects of Robert Dawson 1984-2008</em>, Cavallo Point, Sausalito, CA 2008<br /> <em>Where We Live,</em> J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2006<br /> <em>The Land Through A Lens</em>, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC 2003<br /> <em>A Doubtful River</em>, University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV by Robert Dawson, Peter Goin and Mary Webb<br /> 2000<br /> <em>Seizing the Light: A History of Photography</em>, McGraw Hill, Boston, MA 2000<br /> <em>Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream</em>, University of California Press,<br /> Berkeley, CA by Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin, 1999<br /> <em>The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland</em>, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA<br /> by Robert Dawson and Stephen Johnson, text by Gerald Haslam, 1993<br /> <em>Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography</em>, National<br /> Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1992<br /> <em>Arid Waters: Photographs From the Water in the West Project</em>, University of Nevada Press, 1992<br /> Aperture, #120, "Water in the West," 1990<br /> <em>Robert Dawson Photographs</em>, Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan, 1988</p> <p> SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (* indicates solo exhibition) San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA "Public Library An American Commons" 2011* San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA "Empire of Thirst Robert Dawson's Photographs of Water in the West" 2010* City Windows Gallery, San Jose, CA "The Conscience of the City Treating Wastewater in Silicon Valley" 2010* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "The View From Here" 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Into the Sunset Photography's Image of the American West" 2009 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA “Where We Live Photographs of America” 2006<br /> Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy “Arti & Architettura 1900-200” 2004-2005<br /> FotoFest 2004, Houston, TX “Water in the West Group” 2004<br /> Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC “The Land Through A Lens” 2003-2005<br /> Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Go On Being, Our Blue Star!” 2002<br /> The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA “The Great Wide Open” 2001<br /> Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Made in California” 2000<br /> The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA “Awakening from the California Dream” 1999 *<br /> Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Perpetual Mirage" 1996<br /> San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Crossing the Frontier" 1996<br /> National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC "Between Home and Heaven" 1992<br /> Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV "The Water in the West Project" 1991<br /> The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA "Nature and Culture" 1989<br /> Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan "Robert Dawson" 1988 *<br /> California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA "The Great Central Valley Project" 1986<br /> San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 1982 *<br /> "At Mono Lake", Traveled throughout the United States, 1980 - 1983</p> <p> SELECTED PROJECTS Photographer-in-Residence, Water Pollution Control Plant, City of San Jose, CA, 2009-2010 <u>New Deal Legacy Project</u>, Director and Photographer, 2004 – 2008<br /> <u>Global Water Project</u>, Director and Photographer, 2001 – present<br /> <u>American Public Library Project</u>, Director and Photographer, 1994 - present<br /> <u>Farewell, Promised Land Project,</u> Co-Director and Photographer, 1992 - 1999<br /> <u>Pyramid Lake Project</u>, Co-Director and Photographer, 1989 - 2000<br /> <u>Water in the West Project</u>, Co-Director and Photographer, 1983 - present<br /> <u>Great Central Valley Project,</u> Co-Director and Photographer, 1982 - 1993</p> <p> IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF<br /> J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA<br /> Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY<br /> Library of Congress, Washington, DC<br /> San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA<br /> National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC<br /> Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA<br /> The Center For Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ<br /> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX<br /> The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA<br /> Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, France<br /> </p> </font></span><br>
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