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Harvard University; Columbia University. Rutgers University.
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Bob Adelman
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Raised on Long Island, New York, he earned his Bachelor of Arts at Rutgers University, Law Studies from Harvard University, and Master of Arts in Philosophy from Columbia University. Adelman used his background as a graduate student in Applied Aesthetics from Columbia University to forge close ties with leading figures of art and literature, including Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett. After studying photography for several years under the tutelage of Harper"s Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch, Adelman volunteered as a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality in the early 1960s, a position which granted him access to key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including.
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Junior. and James Baldwin.
Westwood Gallery New York City presented the premiere gallery exhibition for Bob Adelman"s civil rights photographs in 2008, curated by James Cavello. During the exhibition the gallery held an event on April 4, 2008 marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior.
The actress and civil rights advocate Ruby Dee read from Doctor King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech. The gallery also exhibited and represents Adelman’s photographs of New York artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Adolph Gottlieb, other artists and social photographic essays.
His work is also represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Adelman died March 19, 2016, in Miami Beach at the age of 85.
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