Background
Jim Alinder was born in 1941 in Glendale, California, United States.
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Jim Alinder was born in 1941 in Glendale, California, United States.
Alinder earned a BA in 1962 from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. He then studied photography at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and took his MFA (1968) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he studied photography with Van Deren Coke.
Alinder has been executive director of The Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, since 1977 and has been editor-in-chief of the organization's quarterly, Untitled, since 1978. He also is editor-in-chief of Exposure: SPE and previously directed the photography program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1968-77). He served as a photography consultant to the Mid- America Arts Alliance, 1976-78, and since 1970 has been a visiting artist, workshop instructor and lecturer.
The SPE member has been the Society's secre¬tary (1973-75), vice-chairman (1975-77) and chairman of the board (1977-79).
Alinder won an NEA Photographer's Fellowship in 1973, a Woods Foundation Fellowship in 1974 and was a Kansas Bicentennial Photography Project participant in 1976.