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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
Born in Los Angeles in 1934, William Carter graduated from Stanford University in 1957. A talented writer and part-time jazz musician, he was drawn to the practical and creative potential of photography. In 1961 he joined Harper & Row in New York as an assistant book editor.
Carter moved to Beirut in 1964 as a photographer-writer. His work was soon published in LIFE and elsewhere. In 1966 he moved to London and accepted freelance commissions for journalistic and commercial clients worldwide. In 1969 he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area to create a book of pictures and text, GHOST TOWNS OF THE WEST, published in 1971. This was followed in 1975 by MIDDLE WEST COUNTRY, another seedbed study of the American character. In 1991 Carter published a book on his old love, New Orleans jazz: PRESERVATION HALL.
During these and ensuing years, Carter's photographic style took on a more personal and fine-art direction. Widely exhibited, his photographic prints of the nude are included in public and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. His book, ILLUMINATIONS, immediately drew rave responses on being introduced in Europe in late 1996.
His book on the nude, ILLUMINATIONS, has been selected by the museum shops of the National Gallery (Washington DC), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and ICP (New York) as well as quality booksellers worldwide.
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 1060, Los Angeles, California 2002
Featured Artist, colorfolio.com, April, 2002
Rubissow Sargent, Berkeley, California 2001, 2000, 1999
ModernBook Gallery, Palo Alto, California 2001
Cafe Borrone Gallery, Menlo Park, California 2001, 2000
Town Hall, Los Altos Hills, California 2000
Cafe Verona Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1999
Aeterna Graphic, Zurich, Switzerland 1998
Fischinger Photogalerie, Stuttgart, Germany 1997
Photographie Forum Frankfurt (1996)
Sanske Galerie, Zurich (1996)
Photographie Forum Frankfurt (1996)
Sanske Galerie, Zurich (1996)
Lichtbild Galerie, Worpswede/Bremen, Germany (1995)
Compagnia Fotografi, Milan, Italy (1993)
Hamidrasha Art Institute, Jaffa, Israel (1991)
Focale Gallery, Nyon, Switzerland (1990)
CPS Gallery, Albany, California (1990)
Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich (1989)
Stanford University Museum of Art, California (1989)
Fotografia Biennale Internazionale, Torino, Italy (1989)
Design Center, Los Angeles (1987)
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Photo San Francisco, San Francisco, California 2002
Photo LA, Los Angeles, California 2002
Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, California 2001
Photo San Francisco, San Francisco, California 2001
Photographers Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1992-2002 yearly
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California 1999-2000
NextMonet.com, San Francisco, 2000-2002
Aeterna Graphic, Zurich, Switzerland 1997
Deutsche Fototage, Bonn, Germany (1995)
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California (1994)
Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany (1994)
Palo Alto Cultural Center, California (1994, twice)
City of Milan, Italy (1994)
Singer Photography, Petaluma, California (1994)
Photographer's Gallery, Palo Alto, California (1992-3, 1994-5)
Cultural Exchange Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona (1992)
Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Washington (1992)
Black Gallery, Los Angeles (1992)
Linda Wolcott Moore Gallery, San Francisco (1991 & 1992)
Portfolio Gallery, London (1991)
Fischinger Galerie, Stuttgart (1991)
Seipp Gallery, Palo Alto, California (1991)
Lichtbild Galerie, Worpswede/Bremen, Germany (1991)
LIST OF COLLECTIONS
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Cantor Center (Stanford University Museum), Stanford, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Collection Paris Audio-Visual, Paris, France
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum of Photographic Art, Odense, Denmark
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Marco Pfeifer Collection of Classical American Photography, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael J. Wilson Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gernsheim Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Manfred Heiting Collection, Holland
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University, California
DeKesel Collection, Palo Alto, California
Horbach Collection, Germany
Raychem Corporation Collection, Delaware, USA
The Bechtel Corporation Collection, San Francisco, California
City of Palo Alto Collection, Palo Alto, California
O'Melveny & Meyers Collection, New York, New York
University National Bank, California
BOOKS BY WILLIAM CARTER
ILLUMINATIONS (Editions One, 1996)
PRESERVATION HALL (W.W. Norton, 1991; nominated for Ralph J.
Gleason Award, 1992)
EIGHTEEN NUDES (Silver Image Gallery, 1987)
MIDDLE WEST COUNTRY (Houghton Mifflin, 1975; Publications Award,
Chicago Geographical Society, 1976)
GHOST TOWNS OF THE WEST (Sunset Books , 1970/1975; Award of Merit,
Western Art Directors Club, 1972)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS & ARTICLES
Life Magazine, Time Magazine. Geographical Magazine of London, London Sunday Times, The Sun, Mississippi Rag, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Oceans Magazine, Womens Wear Daily, Publishers Weekly, Sunset Magazine, US Information Agency Magazines, Harper & Row Books, Rand McNally Books, worldwide commercial clients of Photo Researchers and Camera Press for 40 years, International Association of Journalistic Editors, Photographers 1998 Market Handbook, Best of Photography Annual, Progresso Fotographie, Foto Practica, American Heritage, Oxford University Press, International Association of Jazz Educators, and others
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