Brad Temkin
Brad Temkin is an American photographer. He is known for his photographs documenting the human impact on the landscape.
Career
Temkin has taught photography at Columbia [College Chicago] since 1984.Temkin's first book, Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, was published in 2005. In 2009, he began a project entitled Rooftop, addressing what contemporary urban pioneers are doing to mitigate the consequences of non-renewable energy consumption and drawing attention to living architecture.
Temkin's works are included in the permanent collections of the Art [Institute of Chicago] and Museum of [Contemporary Photography].
Publications
- Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, Center for American Places/Columbia College, Chicago. 2005.
- Rooftop, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2015
- The State of Water, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2019.
Collections