Les Krims
Biography
E D U C A T I O N
1967 Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1964 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Cooper Union, New York, New York.
T E A C H I N G P O S I T I O N S
1969 Professor, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
1967 Instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
1965 Assistant Instructor in Printmaking and Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Solo Exhibition
2008 Les Krims, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, for the publication of a 15 print, original print portfolio, of a selection of pictures from Fictcryptokrimsographs, published by Chez Higgins, Paris, France, June
2007 America Nude, Galeria PaceArte Contemporaena, Brescia, Italy, December
Les Krims, Wishful Thinking: Satire Inspired by the Decline of the Left in America, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2005 “Les Krims.” Monograph reproducing 67 images. Arles, France: Actes Sud, November
2005 les.krims.com. Commerce website, launched November 15
2004 Les Krims, Fact or Fiction, The Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY, March
2002 Les Krims, Forum de l’Image, Toulouse, France, March
1999 Les Krims, The Experiment of Simulacrum, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece
1993 Les Krims, Centre de la Photographie Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
1991 A Sense of Humor: Les Krims, New Image Gallery, James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia
1990 Les Krims, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon
1985 Les Krims, Artmart, Buffalo, New York
1983 Les Krims: Idiosyncratic Pictures, Viviane Esder Gallery, Paris, France
1982 Les Krims, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York
1981 Les Krims, The Looking Glass Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Idiosyncratic Pictures, Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Sullivant Galler, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1980 Idiosyncratic Pictures, Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam, Holland
PLEASE!, Phototheque of Thessaloniki, Greece
1978 Les Krims, Nova Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Les Krims, Church Street Photographic Center, Melbourne, Australia
Les Krims, Paule Pia Galerij, Antwerp, Belgium
Les Krims, Light Gallery, New York, NY
Les Krims: Academic Art 1974-1977, Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
1977 Les Krims, Canon Photo Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Les Krims Kodalith Images, Galerie ABF, Hamburg, Germany
1976 Les Krims, Galerie A. Nagel, Berlin, Germany
Les Krims, The Picker Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Fictcryptokrimsographs and Kodalith Images 1968—1975, Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne, Germany
Les Krims, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Les Krims, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Les Krims, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1975 Les Krims, Galerie Die Brucke, Vienna, Austria
Les Krims, The Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Les Krims, Galleria Photografica Nadar, Pisa, Italy
Les Krims, Galerie Documenta, Torino, Italy
Les Krims, Light Impressions Gallery, Rochester, New York
Les Krims, Galerie Delpire, Paris, France
1973 Les Krims, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1972 Les Krims, The International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium
Les Krims, Album Fotogalerie, Cologne, Germany
Les Krims, The Witkin Gallery, New York, New York
1971 Les Krims, The Toronto Gallery of Photography, Toronto,Canada
Les Krims, The Silver Image Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Les Krims, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Les Krims, Moore College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Les Krims, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1970 Les Krims, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan, Italy
1969 Les Krims, Garrick Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Les Krims, Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
Les Krims, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Les Krims, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
1966 Les Krims, thesis exhibition at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Groupe Exhibition
2010 Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnato, Ohio, February 13-May 9
Bodies Unbound, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April
2009 Manifesto (l’Invité du Festival 2009), Manifesto Festival d’Image, Toulouse, France, September
Bova Images Festival, Lazzaro, Italy, Summer 2009
2008 Livres de nus, une anthologie 1895-2002, la Maison européenne de la Photographis à Paris, Paris, France, October 2007-January
70’ La Photographie Americaine, la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France, October
HUNTING, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada, September/October
AMERICANA, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy, June-September
Love, Gallerie Civiche di Palazzo Ducale, Città di Pavullo nel Frignano, Italy,June
The Last 10 Shots, an exhibition made to commemorate the discontinuance of Polaroid SX-70 film, Bongout Showroom, Berlin, Germany, May/June
Ojos Privados. Colección Laurence Miller, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain, May
Molluskkollectiv, Bongout Showroom, Berlin, Germany, March 8— April 8
2007 Livres de nus, une anthologie 1895-2002, la Maison européenne de la Photographis à Paris, Paris, France, October 2007-January Seeing
Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, a traveling exhibition from the collection of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, traveling to 9 museums from 2007—2009.
REGARDE: DES ENFANTS, selections from the collection of Michèle et Michel Auer, Montpellier Photo-Visions, Montpellier, France
A New Reality, Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, selection from the collection of Anne and Arthur Goldstein, Jane Voohees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Jersey
Pourtraire, Galerie du Cloître, École des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes, France May
2006 Acting the Part, Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, June 15
Le Mouvement des Images, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, April 3
Musée à Vendre, Le Chalet de Haute Nuit, Belgium, May
Wanted Paris, Wanted Paris Gallery, Paris, France, April
M+M & Friends, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent sur-Marne, France, November
Viaggio nella Fotografia Contemporanea, Galleria PaciArte contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, December
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Buffalo State College, October
2005 Nues & Nus, Musée Municipal Église Saint Nazaire, Bourbon Lancy, France, July
Beyond Real, Australian Centre for Photography, New South Wales, Australia, October
A Swiss Passion, Fundació FOTO, Barcelona, Spain, November
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
2004 Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, April
Enthüllt/Exposed, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany, March
La Collection M+M Auer, une Histoire de la Photographie, Musée d’art et d’histoire Genève, Switzerland, April
Street Credibility, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, April
2003 Venus in Furs, Neue Galerie am Landsmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, April 26—August 24
Global Village: The 60s, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, October2, 2003—January 18
The F.C. Gundlach Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, October 28, 2003—February 1
2002 HEXENWAHN, Ängste der Neuzeit, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany, May-August
The Photographers Edge, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio
REVELATION: Representations of Christ in Photography, Hotel de Sully, Paris, France; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, May
2001 Photographs for Sick Kids (group), The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000 Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography), The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Le nu photographié, Galerie d’Art du Consul Général des Bouche- du-Rhone, Aixen- Provence, France
1999 Digital Frontiers, Photography’s Future at Nash Editions, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1998 Private Fictions, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Fétiches & Fétichismes, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Sur La Tête, The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, traveling exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MO
Digital Frontiers: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1997 Oh Boy!, The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
The View from Denver , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Dérision & Raison, Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium
1996 A Celebration of 25 Years of Light Gallery, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York
Der zerteilte Blick, DuMont Kunsthalle (Blaue Halle), Köln, Germany
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (innaugural exhibition of this new museum), Paris, France
Kobe Aid Fund Exhibition, Kobe/Tokyo, Japan
1995 VI Biennale Internazionale de Fotografia, Torino, Italy
From Light to Dark: The Look of Photographic Prints, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Silver Eye Center for Photography Benefit Fine Photography Auction/ xhibition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Fotodifusion, Torino, Italy
the camera i, Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sidney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Centre de la Photographie de Genève, 1984–1994, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
llan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Interiors: A Metaphysical Construct (Lucien Clergue, George Krause, Les Krims, Ted Orland, Jerry Uelsmann, Jerald C. Maddox), Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
1993 Gli anni ‘70 lo sguardo, la foto, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York
1992 Photographic Resource Center Benefit Exhibition, an invitational benefit auction and exhibition, Boston, MA
1990 American Myth, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
New Art Examiner Auction/Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
Capturing An Image: 150 Years of Photography, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Recent Acquisitions, Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
1989 Photographers’ Dialogue, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
ine Art Faculty Exhibition, State College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Art Kane Photo Workshops, Cape May, New Jersey
The Friends of Photography , an invitational exhibition/auction to benefit the Ansel
Adams Gallery, in San Francisco, California
The Cherished Image: Portraits from 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Photographs from the Permanent Collection: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Haverford Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Blue Sky Gallery, an invitational exhibition auction to benefit theOregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon
Art on the Tracks, Pensacola, Florida
Light and Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, Printemps, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Nos 80, III Fotobienal-Vigo 1988, Vigo, Spain
Fabricated Photographs, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
150 Years of Photography, Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Prague, Czechoslovakia
SUCB Fine Arts Faculty, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
Trains and Boats and Planes, The Witkin Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Poetic Injury, Alternative Museum, New York, New York
Facets of the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Collecting Photography 1977—1987 , Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Likeness, Expression, and Character: Presence in Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Photographs from the National Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Les Krims, The Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The First Amendment Show, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Interiors, Light Gallery, New York, New York
Family Portraits, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
True Stories and Photofictions, The Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
1974, A Year in Review, Light Gallery, New York, New York
Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1986 Photography as Performance: Message Through Object and Picture, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England
Photography, A Facet of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Commitment to Vision, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Crosscurrents II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Staging the Self-Portrait, Photography 1840-1985, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
Exhibition, Theatre des Realities, Metz, France
1985 Cincinatti Collects Photography, Cincinatti Art Museum, Cincinatti, Ohio
A Tribute to Lee D. Witkin, The Witkin Gallery, New York, New York
Extending the Perimeters of 20th Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Nude in Photography, Munchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
American Images, Barbican Art Gallery, City of London, London, England
La Chambre, La Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Color Contrast, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio
Anxious Interiors, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
Rochester, An American Center of Photography: 1827—1984, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Maximalism, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, New Jersey
Photographic Alternatives, Works by Contemporary American Photographers, Hong
Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
1983 Portraits from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Art of the State/State of the Art, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, New York
Color as Form, A History of Color Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Staged Photographs, Lijnbaancentrum, Lijnbaan, Rotterdam, Holland
1982 Form, Freud, and Feeling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Contemporary Photographs as Phantasy, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Beyond Photography: The Fabricated Image, Delahunty Gallery, New York, New York
1981 Master Photographers: A Sentimental Celebration, The Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
Autoportraits Photographiques, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Artist’s Books, Centre de Documentation d’Art Actual, Barcelona, Spain
Acquisitions 1973—1980, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
American Photographs 1970—1980, The Whatcom Museum of Art and History, Bellingham, Washington
1980 The Gary M Hoffer ‘74 Memorial Photography Collection, The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Photography: Recent Directions, The Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Exhibition, Light Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Forms Fabricated To Be Photographed, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Exhibition, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Exhibition, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photographic Surrealism, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Approaches to Photography: An Historical Survey, Amarillo Art Center, Amarill, Texas
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970’s, Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara, California
The Witkin Gallery, Inc. 1969—1979, The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
One of a Kind, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas=
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Exhibition, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Exhibition, Cincinatti Art Museum, Cincinatti, Ohio
Small Objects, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
Kirklands International Photography Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Fantastic Photography in the USA, Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Forty American Photographers, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacremento, CA
1977 Exhibition, New England School of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts
Extended Frame, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Exhibition, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The Instant Image, Aktionsgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Diane Arbus, Les Krims, Duane Michals, Galerie Schellman and Kluser, Munich, Germany
Exhibition, Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Survey of Contemporary Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
La Photo Comme Photographie, Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux, France
Foto-Sequenties, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1976 A Temporary Possession: The Human Image in Twentieth Century Photography, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Portland, Washington
One Eye Open, One Eye Closed, Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada
Photographie: Rochester, New York, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France
Exhibition, Musee Galliera, Paris, France
Focus Gallery Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exhibition, Suzette Schochet Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
1975 Exhibition, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Dix Photographies Americains a Deauville, Deauville, France
Contemporary Photographs, The Halsted 831 Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Unordinary Realities, Xerox Square Exhibition Center, Rochester, New York
In Just Seconds, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Human Image: Sociology and Photography, State University College, Fredonia, New York
Exhibition, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
The Polaroid Print, Lampkin Camerawork Gallery, Fairfax, California
4 Amerikanische Photographen: Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Les Krims, Duane Michals, Stadtiches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
Exhibition, Photogenesis Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
(Photo)(Photo)2 ...(Photo)n, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland
1974 Private Realities: Recent American Photography, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Four American Photographers, Societe des Expositions du Palais de Beaux-Arts, Bruxells, Belgium
Multimedia, Erie Art Center, Erie, PA
Art and Animals, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
Light Transformed, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Photography in America, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1973 Photography, Ross-Freeman Gallery, Northridge, California
International Market for Current Art, 1973, Dusseldorf, Germany
Les Krims, Photogalerie Wilde, Cologne, Germany
Nine Western New York Artists, Burchfield Gallery, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York
Art 4 ‘73 Internationale Kunstmesse, Basel, Switzerland
Critic’s Choice, Neikrug Gallery, New York, New York
Exhibition, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Document, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1972 The Expanded Photograph, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Woman, Zone V Photographer’s Workshop, Watertown, MA
Ohio Silver, Ohio Silver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fifteen Photographers, Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, Florida
Photographer as Magician, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
60’s Continuum, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1971 The Western New York Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Exhibition The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Photographs of Women, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Critic’s Choice, Humbolt State College, Arcata, California
1970 Christmas Show, The Underground Gallery, New York, New York
Research Award Recipients’ Show, Charles Burchfield Center, SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Fictions, Galerie Prisma IV, Lund, Sweden
Photography Invitational 1971, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Being Without Clothes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
12 x 12, Carr House Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Exhibition, The Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Rochester, New York
Christmas Show, Andrew Dixon White Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Photograph As Object, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1969 Museum of Modern Art Junior Council Christmas Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Western New York Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Les Krims/Wynn Bullock, The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Photographer’s Choice, Pratt Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Exhibition, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Exhibition, Underground Gallery, New York, New York
Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1968 Exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1967 Exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, by Kevin Moore,Cincinnati, Ohio: Hatje Cantz Verlag: Ostifildern, Germany, February 2010.
Film und Foto, Año III, Número 10.3-09, “Les Krims: New Work,” pp 40-55. Gijon, Spain: Mácula de plata, September 2009
Manifesto 7e Édition 2009, Festival d’Image. Toulouse, France: Achevé d’impremer September 2009
MEMPHIS, The City Magazine, “Art Attack,” by Michael Finger. Memphis, Tennessee: Contemporary Media, Inc., November 2009
I Want You, Issue 2 (magazine), portfolio of new pictures. Seattle, Washington: Christian Petersen/Dumb Eyes, November 2009
X-TRA, Volume11, Number 4. “1 Image 1 Minute,” by Skip Arnold. Los Angeles, CA: Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, Summer 2009
Fotografya, an online photography magazine based in Turkey. Published a portfolio of pictures, early 2009
70’ La Photographie Americain. Paris, France: la Bibliothèque nationale de France, October 2008
Zone Zero, a Mexico City based website featuring photographers from all over the world, invited me to send a selection of pictures so that they could create and feature a site of my pictures: Les Krims: Pictures in the Age of the Culture Wars 2008
VICE , portfolio published of 15, Polaroid SX-70 prints in Vice’s Annual Fiction Issue. New York, New York: Vice Magazine, December 2008
Ojos Privados. Colección Laurence Miller. Barcelona, Spain: Fundación Foto Colectania, May 2008
Americana, American Photography in the Twentieth Century, a cura di Walter Liva, testi di Naomiu Rosenblum & Walter Liva. Comune di San Vito al Tagliemento: Centro di Recerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia, October 2008
Les Krims, 15-print original print portfolio of selected pictures from the bookwork FICTCRYPTOKRIMSOGRAPHS. Paris, France: Chez Higgins, June 2008
Paris-New York, La revue Études photographiques, #21. Paris, France: la Société Francaise de Photographie, December 2007
The Vice Photo Book. Brooklyn, New York: Vice Books, 2007
American Photography 1958—1981: The Last Photographic Heroes, by Gilles Mora. Paris, France: Éditions du Seuil, September 2007
LIVRES DE NUS, by Alessandro Bertolotti. Paris, France: Éditions de La Martinière, 2007
Les Krims, “Allegoría a la Sociedad Americana,” Lamono: Memory, núm. 39, November 2007, Barcelona, Spain
A New Reality, Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, edited by Jeffrey Wechsler, from the collection of Anne and Arthur Goldstein. Catalog for an exhibition at the James Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers, New Jersey: James Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, & Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2007
Photo Books: 802 Photo Books from the M.+M. Auer Collection. Hermance, Switzerland: Editions M.+M. Auer, 2007
An America Gallery, Howard Greenberg, by Howard Greenberg, Lyle Rexar, and Michael Torosian. New York, NY: Lumier Press, Toronto, 2007
REGARDE: DES ENFANTS, by Michèle et Michel Auer. Montpellier, France: Editions M+M. Auer & Montpellier Photo-Visions, 2007
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th Edition, Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science. Edited by Michael R. Peres. Entry in, “Major Themes and Photographers of the 20th Century.” Burlington, Massachusetts: Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2007
Pourtraire. Catalog of exhibition of same name, at Galeries du Cloître, Ecole des beauxarts de Rennes. Rennes, France: ecole des beaux-arts de Rennes, Jérôme Saint-Loubert-Bié, 2007
Réponses Photo. “Délires et Fictions,” by Sylvie Hugues. Article and interview including numerous color reproductions. Paris, France: Mondadori, May 2007
Le Photographe. “Les Krims, Provocateue et taranquille,” by Hervé Le Goff. Article and interview with color reproductions. Paris, France: Mondadori, May 2007
Le Mouvement des Images. Catalog of exhibition at Centre National D’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, France: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006
Mollusk #02, Encyclopedia de Bongoût. Large article and interview, reproducing 25 full color images. Berlin, Germany: Bongoût, 2006
Acting the Part, Photography as Theatre. Catalog of exhibition at the national Gallery of Canada. New York, NY: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2006
Le Chalet de Haute Nuit (1994-2006). Catalog celebrating 13 years of exhibitions Ecaussinnes, Belgium: la Communauté francaise de Belgique, 2006
Les Krims. A Photo Poche series monograph, edited by Robert Delpire, with an introduction by Bernard Noël. Arles, France: Actes Sud, November 2005
A Swiss Passion, Colección M.+M. Auer. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Foto Colectania, 2005
les krims.com, an online website. Buffalo, New York: Les Krims Editions, November 2005
Journal des Musées d’art et d’histoire, cover image for this journal of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the City of Geneva, Switzerland, 2004
VIGOVISIONS, Coleccion Fotografica del Ayuntamiento de Vigo. Vigo, Spain: Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, 2003
Global Village: The 1960s. Montreal, Canada: Snoeck Publishers & The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2003
A Clear Vision—Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach.
Hamburg, Germany: Internationales Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2003
HEXENWAHN, Ängste der Neuzeit. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2002
Nus et paysages, by Alain Roger. Paris, France: Éditions Aubier, 2001
Jacques Désires de photographies, by Jacques Bloesch (a limited
edition book of 300 copies). Geneva, Switzerland: Le Scorpion Bleu, 2001
Le Chat Essentiellement. Paris, France: Nathan/Delpire, 2000
Le nu photographié. Aix-en-Provence, France: ACTES SUD, 2000
Fétiches & Fétichismes. Paris, France: Passage de Retz, 1999
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital,
The Hallmark Photographic Collection. Kansas City, Missouri:
Hallmark Cards Inc., 1998
Digital Frontiers, Photography’s Future at Nash Editions (CD-ROM).
Manhattan Beach, California: Nash Editions/George Eastman House, 1998
Lessico Universale Italiano. Rome, Italy: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1998
“Pretenders Pretending to Be Wounded and Dead Pretend Watercolor Painting…2003.”
Dérision & Raison (catalog). Charleroi, Belgium: Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, 1997
Photographers Encyclopedia International (CD version). Geneva, Switzerland: M+M Auer, 1997
Portfolio of 17 pictures published in POLIPHILE. Paris, France: Editions Aldines, 1996
(There’s also in this annual an article about my work called,
“L’INCOMMENSURABLE: LA MORALE, LE STYLE,” by Alain Faure.
Kobe Aid Fund World Photo Art Exhibition and Auction, 376 page, 4 color,
hard bound catalog of exhibition/auction. Tokyo, Japan: Asahi Shimbun, 1996
Photographie des 20. Jayrunderts, catalog of the photographie collection at Museum Ludwig, in Köln, Germany, in which three of my pictures are reproduced with commentary. Köln, Germany: Benedikt Tashen Verlag GmbH, 1996
Pictures published in Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi’s new books: Musea Nostra (a short history of photography), and Quando (a chronology of the history of photography). Charleroi, Belgium: Credit Communal de Belgique, and Conservat, 1995
Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January 16 - March 27, 1994
Gli anni ‘70 lo sguardo, la foto. Modena, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1993.
Pictures and article called “L’expérience du simulacre,” by Alain Julliard-Jérôme Images. Geneva, Switzerland: Centre de la Photographie Geneve, 1993
Picture published in Foto Taschenkalender. Heidelberg, Germany: Artium Verlag/Article and pictures published in Det Iscenesatte Fotografi, by Mette Sandbye. 1991 The Sun. Tokyo, Japan: 1991
Picture published in conjunction with article written by A.D.Coleman, in Fotografisk Tidskrift. Stockholm, Sweden: Grafisk Form Magazine, 1990
Article published in “7” Corriere Della Sera, called “Instante Postmoderne” by Gianni Riotta. Milan, Italy: Editoriale Quotidiani, June 1990
Picture to illustrate article “Riciclo Vitale,” by Gianni Riotta, published in the Sunday supplement of Corriere Della Sera. Milan, Italy: RCS Editoriale Quotidiani, April 21, 1990
Picture published in Understanding Photographs, by Terry Barrett. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1990
Picture published in De la Photographie comme un des beaux-arts, edited by Alain Sayag. Paris, France: Centre National de la Photographie, 1989
Photographers’ Dialogue, edited by Gail Roberts and Steven Caruthers. Boca Raton, Florida: SRI and Boca Raton Museum of Art, 1989
Juror’s Statement, by Les Krims, for “Alaska Positive” exhibition. Juneau, Alaska: Alaska State Museum, 1989
“Beginning at Home,” by A. D. Coleman, published in Satori. Tivoli, New York: Hands Off Press, 1989
“La Photographie dans L’Art de XXEMX Siecle,” by Alain Sayag, published in
Actualities des Arts Plastiques. Paris, France: Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique, 1989
Poetic Injury, the Surrealist Legacy in Postmodern Photography, the Alternative Museum, with essays by Rosalind Krauss, Suzanne Boettger, and Roger Denson. New York, New York: The New Museum, 1987
Fabrications, Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs, by Ann Hoy. New York, New York: Abbeville, 1987
The Naked Eye, Great Photographs of the Nude, selected and introduced by David Bailey, with text by Martin Harrison. London, England: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987
Photography, A Facet of Modernism, by Van Deren Coke. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986
Photography As Performance, catalogue of exhibition. London, England: Photographer’s Gallery, 1986
Theatre des Realities, catalogue of exhibition. Metz, France: Metz pour
la Photographie, 1986
Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections, by Robert Sobieszek. New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1985
1985. New York, New York: Esquire Associates, 1984, 1985.
Das Aktfoto. Munich, Germany: Munchner Stadtmuseum, 1985
Photo Japan, No, 16. Tokyo, Japan: Fukutake, 1985
A World History of Photography, by Naomi Rosenblum. New York, New York: Abbeville, 1984
Photographers, catalogue. Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1984
La Photographie Creative, by Jean Claude Lemagny. Paris, France: Contrejour, 1984
AIPAD ‘84, catalogue for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers. New York, New York: AIPAD, 1984
The Making of a Collection, Photographs from the Minneapolis Museum of Art, by Carroll T. Hartwell. Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1984
Sign of Life, by Alfred Appel, Jr. New York, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1984
Photographies No.6. Paris, France: Bibliotheque National, 1984
Devil/Paradis. Charleroi, Belgium: Thierry Tillier Publications, 1984
Particulars, catalogue of an exhibition. Rochester, New York: George Eastman House, 1983
American Photographer, offset edition print of a color picture from “Idiosyncratic Pictures,”called “A Rakes Revisionist Regress...” New York, New York: November, 1982
Idiosyncratic Pictures,” offset post card set version of original print portfolio
published in 1981, by Les Krims. Buffalo, New York: Les Krims, 1982
Zoom, No. 91, portfolio of photographs from “Idiosyncratic Pictures.” Paris, France: Summer, 1982
Connecticut Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 9. “The Bambi Complex,” by Geoffrey Gevalt. Fairfield, Connecticut: 1982
Selections from the Strauss Photography Collection, catalog. Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum, 1982
Zien Magazine, Vol 4, No. 1, article called “Staged Photo Events—The Frontiers of Meaning.” Rotterdam, Holland: Fall 1982
Camera Lucida, “The Offset Work of Les Krims: An Interpretive Critique,” by Terry Barrett. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin: 1982
Contemporary Photographs as Phantasy, catalog of an exhibition at Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1982
Actualitie Des Arts Plastiques, an article called “La Photographie Tendances Recentes”, by Jean-Claud Lemagny. Paris, France: Centre National De Documentation • Pedagogique, 1981
Picture. Santa Fe Springs, California: Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph, 1981
Dialogue, The Ohio Arts Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 36-37, “Les Krims: Idiosyncratic Pictures,” by Terry Barrett. Ohio: 1981
Autoportraits Photographiques. Paris, France: Centre George Pompidou, 1981
French PHOTO, a portfolio of new pictures. Paris, France: Fillipachi Publications, 1981
Twentieth Century Photographs, catalog. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Art Museum, The University of New Mexico, 1980
Acquisitions 1973-1980. Rochester, New York: George Eastman House, 1981
Photo Topics and Techniques. New York, New York: Amphoto, Watson-Guptill
Publications, 1980
American Photographs: 1970—1980. Seattle, Washington: The Washington Art Consortium, 1980
Idiosyncratic Pictures, an original print portfolio, in an edition of 35. Buffalo, New York: Les Krims, 1980
Photographic Surrealism. Cleveland, Ohio: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1979
Modern Photography, Vol. 43, No. 3, “Currents: American Photography Today,” by Julia Scully, and Andy Grundberg. New York, New York: March 1979
Le Nouvel Observateur Special Photo, No.5. Paris, France: 1979
Printletter 18, Vol.3, No. 6, portfolio of prints. November/December 1978. Camera Magazine. Lucerne, Switzerland: September 1978
23 Directions, catalogue of exhibition. Liverpool, England: Walker Art Gallery, 1978
The Mother Book, by Liz Smith. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1978
Das Sofortbild Polaroid, catalog of exhibition at Aktionsbalerie. Bern, Switzerland: Der Lowe, 1977
Le Nouvel Observateur, Special Photo, No. 1/Hors Serie “Pieges a Temps,” article about E. J. Marey, Thomas Eakins, and Les Krims. Paris, France: 1977
Kunstforum International, Band 18, 4 Quartel, article “Aspekte eines Mediums, ”Germany 1976
Nueva Lente, Number 57, “Encuentro.” Madrid, Spain: November 1976
Artforum, “The Directorial Mode,” by A. D. Coleman. New York, New York: September 1976
Moneysworth, portfolio of prints published to accompany article “Are Hunters Skinning the Public.” New York, New York: December 1976
The Photography Catalogue. New York, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1976
French Photo, portfolio of new work. Paris, France: November 1976
The New York Times, “Creating Photographs,” by Peggy Sealfon. New York, New York: Times Publishing, October 10, 1976
Camera 35, an article called “Violated Instants,” by A. D. Coleman. New York, New York: July 1976
Modern Photography, article “Pushing the Limits.” New York, New York: July 1976 Afterimage, Vol. 4, Nos. 1 & 2, publication of “multiple” (giveaway, self assembled book) by Les Krims, titled “Previews.” Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop May/June 1976
The Human Image: Sociology and Photography, catalog of exhibition. Fredonia, New York: State University of New York, 1976
Oui Magazine. Chicago, Illinois: May 1976
Exposure, Journal of
public collections
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
The Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.
The Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, New York.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan.
Museum of Modern Art, Tessaloniki, Greece.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Gary M. Hoffer ‘74 Memorial Photography Collection, Hamilton, New York. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
The Polaroid Collection.
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Centre National d’Art et de Culture George Pompidou Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
Tokyo College of Photography, Tokyo, Japan.
Nassau Community College, New York.
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
Vassar College Art Library, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, New York.
Office of the Chief Architect, Port Authority of New York, New York, NY.
The Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
The Charles Rand Penny Foundation.
Reva & David Logan Foundation.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
St. Bonaventure University, Saint Bonaventure, New York.
Ben & Beatrice Goldstein Foundation.
Erie Community College North, Dry Memorial Library, New York.
Cultural Art Committee, SUNY at Alfred, Alfred, New York.
Catskill Art Society, Inc..
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas.
State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium.
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Musum.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.