Neil Folberg, Monastery of St George Wadi Kelt Large Color Photograph, Israeli landscape Photo, 1983/84

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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