Debra Bloomfield

Debra Bloomfield (born in Los Angeles, California in 1952) is an American photographer. Bloomfield's work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, among others. Her subjects include the southwest United States, the ocean, Alaska, and family farms. She also photographed extensively in Mexico based on the lives and affairs of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky.

Debra Bloomfield
Birth name	Debra Bloomfield
Field	Photography
Training	M.A. San Francisco State University, 1981
Awards	Western Heritage Literary Award in Photography, 2005; James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, 1991-2

Biography

Bloomfield received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1976 and 1981, respectively. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Photography career

Bloomfield has photographed the American landscape for over thirty years. She teaches photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Major publications

• "Still: Oceanscapes by Debra Bloomfield," 2008 Chronicle Books. Forward by Terry Tempest Williams
• "Four Corners," 2004 University of New Mexico Press. Essays by Debra Bloomfield, Linda Connor, and Douglas Nickel.

Selected exhibitions

• "Nineteen Going on Twenty," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 2007
• "Oceanscapes," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2004
• "The Landscape of Time and Place," Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2004
• "Monumental Landscapes," Fahey/ Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
• Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Robert Koch Gallery, 2004
• "Four Corners Project," Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2001
• "California Current--The Photographer's Perspective," Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
• "Points of View: Photography from the Collection," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 1996

References

• "Point of View," by Jane Gottlieb. Photo District News, October 2008 [1]

External links

• Etherton Gallery [2]
• Robert Koch Gallery [3]
• Richard Levy Gallery [4]
• Artnet [5]
• San Francisco Art Institute [6]

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