Background
Leo Holub was born on November 25, 1916. He was born on a bee farm in Decatur, Arkansas, was a toddler in Oklahoma, and later moved with his family to Dawson, New Mexico, and then to Oakland, California.
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Leo Holub's photography is biographical, which is to say that it is life-tracing. His pictures are concerned with the flow rather than the inert matter of reality - with sudden gesture, the flash of expression, the momentary conjunction of figures in motion. His work, unlike that of the painter or the ordinary still-photographer, is not a controlled combination of static shapes, nor is it a carassed surface or a bravurra exhibition of technical mastery. The 45 photographs which compose this book are a selection from the more than two-hundred exhibited at the Stanford University Art Gallery in the winter of 1964.
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1964
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This books contains 125 of Leo Holub's best black and white photographic images taken over a forty year period. In those forty years, Leo Holub's life "happened" in two places, San Francisco and Stanford University.
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1982
Leo Holub was born on November 25, 1916. He was born on a bee farm in Decatur, Arkansas, was a toddler in Oklahoma, and later moved with his family to Dawson, New Mexico, and then to Oakland, California.
Leo Holub attended elementary through high school. He worked as a printer's devil in Oakland and in the Grass Valley gold mines as a blacksmith's helper to raise money for his education.
In 1935, Leo Holub left California to attend the Art Institute of Chicago, which in 2011 awarded him a posthumous Honorary Bachelor of Fine Arts. After just one year, he returned to the West Coast to study at the California School of Fine Arts (presently known as the San Francisco Art Institute) where he was inspired to pursue photography.
Throughout his career, Leo Holub worked in various design firms, advertising agencies, and print shops throughout the Bay Area. He also taught drawing at the California School of Fine Arts, and in 1960, he took a job in the University Planning Office at Stanford University.
In 1969, Leo Holub founded the photography program in the Stanford Department of Art and built the University’s first darkroom. For the next decade, Leo Holub taught classes in photography until he retired as a senior lecturer emeritus in 1980. Throughout the course of his career, he touched many lives as evident in a 1981 exhibition titled "Thanks to Leo," a project organized by his former students showcasing their work. Following his decade-long career as a professor, Leo Holub left Stanford University to pursue work as a freelance photographer and typographic designer.
In 1986, Bay Area collectors Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson commissioned Leo Holub to photograph numerous American artists represented in their private collection. He traveled from San Francisco, throughout California to New Mexico, and New York, capturing portraits of artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg at their homes and studios. Over the course of a decade, Holub photographed more than 100 individuals, making this project one of his most exhaustive efforts. In 2007, the Andersons gave this portfolio of over 600 images to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. A collection of Holub’s prints and personal letters also exists in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Leo Holub died on April 27, 2010 at his home in Noe Valley, San Francisco at the age of 93.
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1964