Background
Richard Paul Edelman was born in 1951 in Long Beach, New York, United States.
conservator Photographer teacher
Richard Paul Edelman was born in 1951 in Long Beach, New York, United States.
Edelman obtained a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1972) and an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (1979).
Since 1974 he has been doing freelance work as a photographer and photographic conservator. He has held several positions in New York, as a faculty member at the New School for Social Research (1977, 1979), as a producer and coordinator of a lecture series at the Floating Foundation of Photography in New York City (1979) and as an illustrator and consultant for a new series of textbooks put out by the New York Institute of Photography (1977- 79).
Edelman works in 35mm black-and-white also specializes in the presentation of photographic artwork.
He belonged to CAA (1977-79) and has been a member of SPE since 1977.
