| Dates: | 1951 - | | Born: | US, NY, Brooklyn |
With his wife, Janet Russek, David Scheinbaum operates Scheinbaum & Russek, private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Established in 1980, Scheinbaum & Russek‘s services include: appraisals; auction evaluations; brokering collections; collection development; consulting; curating; lectures and workshops. They maintain an inventory of contemporary and vintage 20th century photographic works as well as exclusively representing the estates of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, and Eliot Porter. David worked with the pre-eminent photo historian Beaumont Newhall from 1978 until Newhall‘s death in 1993.
His breathtaking photographs of New Mexico‘s Bisti Badlands, can be found in his book Bisti published by the University of New Mexico Press, 1987. His book Miami Beach: Photographs of an American Dream was published in 1990 by Florida International University Press, and covers the transition of Miami Beach and the Jewish population in the 1970s. Most recently, he has collaborated with Janet Russek on two projects; Ghost Ranch: Land of Light, Photographs by David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek, was published by Balcony Press in 1997, Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching, Fall, 2004, The Museum of New Mexico Press.
Scheinbaum has exhibited internationally, and is represented in many museum collections including The Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico), The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas), Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
[Courtesy of Verve Fine Arts Gallery - 2006]Preparing biographies
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