Background
James Andrew Farber was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
James Andrew Farber was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Farber earned his BA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University (1968) and also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (1971).
Farber has been displays coordinator of the Los Angeles International Film Exposition since 1976. He was a project photographer for the International Fund for Monuments, Venice, Italy, in 1975, and from 1969 to 1972 was staff photographer at KQED-TV, San Francisco. In 1972 he was associate producer/photographer for the national public television series Critic At Large.
In 1972 Farber co-produced "An Hour With Pink Floyd," a special for national public television.
He terms his rephotographed collages of photography and printed images "dreamscapes . . . visualizations of my own psyche.”
A member of National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Soho/Cameraworks Gallery (1977-79) and Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (since 1979).