Biography
Richard Rothman is a photographer, a 2015 GuggenheimFellow and a 2016 artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony and Light Work in Syracuse, NY. He is the author of Town of C, published by Stanley/Barker in2021, and Redwood Saw, a monograph published by Nazraeli Press, which was listed in many “best photography books of 2011” articles. His work is includedin the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France,The Brooklyn Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, the International Center of Photography, JGS, The Amsterdam Archives, and Yale University Art Gallery. In 2008, he was awarded a U.S. Department of State cultural-envoy grant to work and teach in the Yucatán, where an exhibition of his photographs was mounted at the Museo MACAY, in Mérida. In 2009, he received a joint commission from the Dutch museum FOAM and the Amsterdam MunicipalArchives to create and exhibit a body of photographs in the city of Amsterdam.His work has been exhibited internationally, and appeared and been reviewed in many publications, including Harper's Magazine, Time, The New York Times,The New Yorker, PDN, TimeOut New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Forum, TheVillage Voice, Camerawork, and Open City. He lives in New York City and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the School of VisualArts.
Contact
richardrothman@me.com
Books
Videos
Forward Thinking Museum: Artists At Work
ICP Lecture Series: Richard Rothman, "Redwood Saw”
Bibliography
2022
Head Butler, Interview
2021
The Guardian, Town of C feature Head Butler, Interview
Harper'sMagazine, Town of C feature
Harper's Podcast, Interview
2018
Lenscratch, Interview with Emily Laux forLenscratch
NOISÉ, Richard Rothman 数码世界里的独行侠
2017
Art Can Help, Essay by Robert Adams
Contact Sheet 192: Light Work Annual 2017, Love and Hunger: In the Town of C. byTim Carpenter
LensCulture “Learning How to See: Redwood Saw andBeyond”
FormatMagazine “The Most Innovative PhotographersWorking in Black & White”
2015
OnwardPhoto Eight Guggenheim Photographers Give Their Advice
ParisReview "Big, Bent Ears, Part 5: AlienObservers"
Lightwork Announcing the 2016 LightworkArtists-in-Residence
PDN 11 Photographers Win 2015 GuggenheimFellowships
Lightbox Newly Named Guggenheim Fellows Reflecton Landscape Photography
2014
TheMorning News Redwood Saw: Interview by Rosecrans Baldwin
2013
“Fail Better”: Interview withGianpaolo Arena
“The Low Voice Richard Rothman &Natasha Berger”
Interview with StanleyWolukau-Wanambwa
2012
PopularPhotography Film Lives
**TheGreat Leap Sideways Portraiture and Tradition: Walker Evans & RichardRothman
**FrankfurterAllgemeine Sonntagszeitung Stamm für Stamm
**SüddeutscheZeitung Die Struktur des Gemüsegartens
Landscape Stories Richard Rothman Workers
VOGUE Deutsch Drei Fotografen, Ein Thema: Wald
TheGreat Leap Sideways Murmurs of the Earth: Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
The Great Leap Sideways One Off: Richard Rothman
The NewYorker Photo Booth Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
DaylightMagazine Blog In conversation with Richard Rothman
Landscape Stories Trees
DeFotograaf Book Review
BrianArnold Redwood Saw
Photo-EyeMagazine Redwood Saw Reviewed by Adam Bell
** DaylightMagazine Redwood Saw
2011
GetAddicted To... Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman
EyeCurious Photobooks 2011: And the winner is...
Conscientious My Favourite Photobooks this Year
Doublecheck link Photo-Eye Magazine The Best Books of 2011
SanFrancisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide: Books on Art
PDN 10 Notable Photo Books of 2011
Conscientious Review: Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman
BrokenLink Planet Mag Richard Rothman – Redwood Saw
azz Loft Project Blog Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
ArtDaily New York Photographer Richard RothmanAnnounces New Book: Redwood Saw
2010
The Conversant Richard Rothman with Alex Stein
Richard Rothman: from Redwood Saw
The Photo Review Crescent City Requiem
Above Magazine Redwood Saw
2009
Foam Album09 Amsterdam Drift
Four inthe Morning Richard Rothman, Redwood Saw
FoamMagazine NY Perspectives
2008
Diariode Yucatan Exploracion fotografica de la vida
MACAY(Museum of Contemporary Art) Redwood Saw
2002
TimeOutNew York Richard Rothman, Landscaped: New York,New Jersey, Los Angeles
Landscaped:New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles Catalogue
2001
Camerawork Sunset at the Lake: Looking forLandscape Photography in the New Millennium
2000
Op-Ed by Robert Sullivan: It Isn’t aCase of Paradise or Parking Lot
The NewYorker The Village Voice Voice Choices
1999
1998
Artand Antiques Landscapes in Flux
The Edgeof Night Catalogue: Urban Landscape Photographyby Catherine Opie, Richard Rothman, and Tokihiro Sato
1997
Columbia: A Journal of Literature andArt Richard Rothman
1996
1995
1991
Arts Magazine NewYork in Review
1990
Artforum Blackto the Futurism