1. Assignment 2: Contemporary Artists
Robert Weingarten
Photographer
Assignment 2: Contemporary Artists
Ali Borzomati
- Self-taught photographer, spent most of his adulthood working in finance.
- Full time approximately 15 years ago

2. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY (1941) Lives and works in Malibu, CA
Manipulates an assortment of photos to create digital compositions through Photoshop.
Digital and traditional black & white and color photography.
Over 90 exhibitions, worldwide in places such as:
J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Christie’s in London, England
Over 30 museum collections, worldwide in places such as:
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Ansel Adams Home, Carmel, CA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- Self-taught photographer, spent most of his adulthood working in finance.
- Full time approximately 15 years ago

3. The Portrait Unbound 2006-2012 Dennis Hopper, 2006,
Digital Print, 60x90
The Portrait Unbound
Hank Aaron, 2009,
Digital Print, 60x90

4. Quincy Jones, 2007,
Digital Print, 60x90
Self Portrait, Digital Print, 60x90

5. Pentimento 2011-2014 Antietam, (1862), 2013, Digital Print
Little Rock Central High, (1957), 2012,
Digital Print, 44x64

6. Selma to Montgomery, (1965), 2013,
Digital Print

7. Havana, (1955), 2013,
Digital Print

8. Amish 2001-2004 Amish 88, Bedford County, TN, 2003,
Archival Digital Print
Amish
Amish 52, Holmes County, OH, 2002,
Archival Digital Print

9. 6:30 A.M. 2003 6:30 A.M. Series, #29, 03/27/03, Archival Digital Print
He approached the project almost scientifically, adhering to a strict set of rules: Each image was shot at 6:30 A.M. with a 350mm lens using slow-speed, fine-resolution, color-saturated transparency film which the photographer bought from the same production batch and stored at the same temperature and humidity throughout the year. The aperture was always set at f/22 and the lens always focused at infinity.
6:30 A.M. Series, #134, 12/19/03,
Archival Digital Print

10. Bibliography
Stephan, Annelisa. Robert Weingarten on His Photography (blog). The Getty Iris. The Getty. September 13,
Marlborough Gallery “Robert Weingarten”. Accessed May 8.
Cox, Julian “New Frontiers: The Photographs of Robert Weingarten”(essay). Atlanta, GA.
Robert Weingarten Accessed May 8.
Sheila, Wickouski. “Weingarten Portrays Famous People Through a Few of Their Favorite Things The Essence of an Artist. Free Lance-Star, The (Fredericksburg, VA), October 11, 2012., NewsBank.
Bial, Raymond . "Another America: A Testimonial to the Amish.” Library Journal 130, no. 6: 93. April 2005.
Tobian, Jacqueline “Rise and Shine.” Photo District News 26, Issue 2:134