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

Town of C Special Edition

Town Of C 

Redwood Saw 

Redwood Saw (Special Edition) "Forest”


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

Redwood Saw

BrianArnold
Redwood Saw

An Experience of Wonder

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

A Project for Open City

 The New Yorker

1997


Columbia: A Journal of Literature andArt
Richard Rothman

1996


The New Yorker

1995


White Columns Update

1991


Arts Magazine
NewYork in Review

1990

Artforum
Blackto the Futurism 

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