Neil FolbergJebel Zakuf, Sinai Vintage Color Photo Israeli Signed Cibachrome Photograph, 1982

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A former student of the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, Neil Folberg is known for his color landscapes of the … Read more A former student of the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, Neil Folberg is known for his color landscapes of the Middle East and black-and-white techniques that champion the wizardry of his master teacher. Born in San Francisco, Folberg became a pupil of Adams at age 17, followed by his education at the University of California at Berkeley and individualized study with landscape photographer William Garnett. By 1976, Folberg had relocated to Jerusalem, where he began producing color landscapes throughout the deserts of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. Folberg was commissioned by Aperture to document synagogues across the world, followed by a return to black-and-white in a series of night skies among ancient ruins of the Middle East.
He used that same lighting to evoke the colors and light of the French Impressionists in his innovative re-creation of their world (“Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists”, Abbeville Press). His current project places man on the stage of nature in brilliantly lit scenes.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Celestial Nights, The Dryansky Gallery, San Francisco
2012 Topography/Time/Israel, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York
2008 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Yeshiva University Museum, New York
2007 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Hammond Art Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Miller Jewish Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
2006 The Impressionists' Salon, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Gershman Y Galleries, The Borowsky and Open Lens Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Kunst 05, Zurich
Manet, Morisot and Friends, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York
Celestial Nights, Pikto Gallery, Toronto
2004 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Prochaine Station Cosmos, Hotel de Sponeck, L'Allan scéne nationale par le19, centre régional d'art contemporain, Montbéliard, France
Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
2003 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Celestial Nights: Ra’anana Municipal Art Gallery, Israel
2002 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, the Groningen Nature Museum, in co-operation with Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, Holland
Celestial Nights, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, N.Y.
Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, La Galerie Photographies du Montpellier, France
Celestial Nights, Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York
2001 Celestial Nights, Vision Gallery, Jerusalem
2000 Celestial Nights, Galerie Mistral, Montreal
And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Galerie Fiolet, Winterswijk, Holland
Celestial Nights, Fine Gallery, Atlanta JCC, Atlanta
Celestial Nights, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco
Celestial Nights, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Toronto
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Art, St. Louis, Mo.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Hoffman Collection
Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tel-Aviv Museum
Yale University Museum of Art See less