Background
Stephen Axelrad was born in 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Stephen Axelrad was born in 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Axelrad obtained a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley (1965) and a JD from the University of Chicago's School of Law in 1969. He then became interested in photography and studied at Apeiron Workshop in Millerton, New York (1971), with Aaron Siskind, at UCLA Extension (1972-76) with Robert Heinecken, Jerry McMillan and Robert Cumming, and at California State in Fullerton (1977-79) with Darryl Curran, among others.
Axelrad has been a law instructor at the University of California in Los Angeles, at California State University in Northridge and at Western State University (1973-77). He was teaching photography at Los Angeles Harbor College in San Pedro. He has also maintained his own legal practice in Los Angeles from 1971 to 1973 and from 1976.
He specializes in Cibachrome color photographs.