Biography
Richard Rothman is a photographer, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2016 artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony and Light Work in Syracuse, NY. He is the author of Town of C, which was published by Stanley/Barker in 2021, and sold out in the first month, and Redwood Saw, a monograph published by Nazraeli Press, which was listed in many "best photography books of 2011" articles. His work is included in 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, Yale University Art Gallery, and the High Museum in Atlanta. 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 Municipal Archives to create and exhibit a body of photographs in the city of Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Robert Morat Gallery, and Gallery F 5.6 amongst others, and been reviewed in many publications, including Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, Time, The New York Times, The New Yorker, PDN, Time Out New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Forum, The Village 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 Visual Arts.
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 Photographers Working in Black & White”
2015
OnwardPhoto Eight Guggenheim Photographers Give Their Advice
ParisReview "Big, Bent Ears, Part 5: Alien Observers"
Lightwork Announcing the 2016 Lightwork Artists-in-Residence
PDN 11 Photographers Win 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships
Lightbox Newly Named Guggenheim Fellows Reflecton Landscape Photography
2014
TheMorning News Redwood Saw: Interview by Rosecrans Baldwin
2013
“Fail Better”: Interview with Gianpaolo Arena
“The Low Voice Richard Rothman &Natasha Berger”
Interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
2012
Popular Photography Film Lives
TheGreat Leap Sideways Portraiture and Tradition: Walker Evans & RichardRothman
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Stamm für Stamm
Süddeutsche Zeitung Die Struktur des Gemüsegartens
Landscape Stories Richard Rothman Workers
VOGUE Deutsch Drei Fotografen, Ein Thema: Wald
The Great Leap Sideways Murmurs of the Earth: Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
The Great Leap Sideways One Off: Richard Rothman
The New Yorker Photo Booth Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
Daylight Magazine Blog In conversation with Richard Rothman
Landscape Stories Trees
De Fotograaf Book Review
Brian Arnold Redwood Saw
Photo-Eye Magazine Redwood Saw Reviewed by Adam Bell
Daylight Magazine Redwood Saw
2011
Get Addicted To... Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman
EyeCurious Photobooks 2011: And the winner is...
Conscientious My Favourite Photobooks this Year
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
Planet Mag Richard Rothman – Redwood Saw
Jazz Loft Project Blog Richard Rothman’s Redwood Saw
ArtDaily New York Photographer Richard Rothman Announces 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 Album 09 Amsterdam Drift
Four in the Morning Richard Rothman, Redwood Saw
Foam Magazine NY Perspectives
2008
Diariode Yucatan Exploracion fotografica de la vida
MACAY (Museum of Contemporary Art) Redwood Saw
2002
Time Out New 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 New Yorker The Village Voice Voice Choices
1999
1998
Art and Antiques Landscapes in Flux
The Edge of Night Catalogue: Urban Landscape Photography by Catherine Opie, Richard Rothman, and Tokihiro Sato
1997
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art Richard Rothman
1996
1995
1991
Arts Magazine New York in Review
1990
Artforum Black to the Futurism