Background
John Yang was born on April 16, 1933, in China.
John Yang was born on April 16, 1933, in China.
John Yang received a Bachelor of Arts in 1954 from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1951.
Before becoming a photographer full-time, Yang worked as an architect and continued in that practice until 1978. Having retired as an architect in 1978, John Yang was a self-employed as a photographer.
John Yang belonged to the Sierra Club, N.Y.-N.J. Trail Conference, the Palisades, New Jersey Nature Association, and was a patron of the Mohonk Trust.
David Yang (born 1967) is an American violist born in New York City.
In the summer of 1951, he studied with Minor White at The California School of the Fine Arts.
