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Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco in 1950, but spent most of his childhood in the Midwestern United States, becoming interested in photography around 1966. In 1967 he began studies with Ansel Adams, the American landscape photographer. In 1968 Folberg enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley which led through a program of individualized study with William Garnett to a B.A. in Photographic Field Studies. He was married in 1975 and in 1976 he and his wife settled in Jerusalem. They have three boys. In 1979, Folberg began photographing in the Sinai, working there until Sinai was returned to Egyptian control. His desert landscapes have been collected together along with a text that Folberg wrote in a book titled In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan by Neil Folberg published by Abbeville Press of New York in 1987. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saone, France in 1990/91. In 1992, he was commissioned by the Aperture Foundation to photograph synagogues all over the world, published by Aperture Press, New York. The book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World was accompanied by travelling exhibitions in Europe and the United States and publication of a portfolio of EverColor pigment transfer prints by Aperture Press and Vision Editions. He has returned to black-and-white work with his new series of photographs of starry night landscapes set in ancient ruins and scenes of the Middle East. This works has been collected together in the book, Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land (Aperture Press, New York 2001) He is often found in Vision Gallery in Jerusalem. Solo exhibitions 2007 Neil Folberg, mid-career survey, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York 2007 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan 2007 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX 2006 The Impressionists' Salon, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York 2006 The French Impressionists in contemporary photographs, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 2006 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Gershman Y Galleries, The Borowsky and Open Lens Galleries, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Manet, Morisot and Friends, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York 2005 Celestial Nights, Pikto Gallery, Toronto 2004 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris 2004 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 2003 Celestial Nights: Ra'anana Municipal Art Gallery, Israel 2002 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Groningen Nature Museum, in co-operation with Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, Holland 2002 Celestial Nights, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY 2002 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, La Galerie Photographies, Montpellier, France 2002 Celestial Nights, Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York 2001 Celestial Nights, Vision Gallery, Jerusalem 2000 Celestial Nights, Galerie Mistral, Montreal 2000 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Galerie Fiolet, Winterswijk, Holland 2000 Celestial Nights, Fine Gallery, Atlanta JCC, Atlanta 2000 Celestial Nights, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco 2000 Celestial Nights, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago 1999 Celestial Nights, Alan Klotz/Photocollect Gallery, New York 1998 Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco 1998 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Spertus Museum, Chicago 1997 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach 1997 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver 1996 Ansel Adams Gallery, Pebble Beach, CA 1996 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Jewish Museum, Camden, London 1996 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Municipal Archives, Krefeld, Germany 1995 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York 1995 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Vision Gallery, San Francisco 1995 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition 1995 At De Beyerd Museum of Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands 1992 Museum of Photography at Tel-Hai, Kiryat Shemona, Israel 1992 University Art Gallery, University of the Negev, Beersheva 1992 Northlight Gallery, Arizona State Univ., Tempe 1992 Silver Light Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO 1990 Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France 1990 Ha'aretz Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel 1989 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX 1987 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987 Ledel Gallery, New York 1986 University of the Pacific, CA (with Brett Weston) 1986 Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1985 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 1985 California State University, Hayward, CA 1985 The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1985 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1984 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1983 Stephen White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Here and Now, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1982 Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA 1982 Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam 1981 Hillel Gallery, Jerusalem 1981 Photo Gallery International, Tokyo 1980 Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1980 Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm 1980 Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1979 Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA 1979 American Cultural Centers, Jerusalem & Tel-Aviv 1979 Punkt Gallery, Copenhagen 1976 Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1974 American Cultural Center, Skopje, Yugoslavia 1974 The Lowie Museum, Berkeley, CA 1973 The Studio Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1972 Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO Group exhibitions 2006 Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, St.Petersburg, Florida 2006 Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, Fort Wayne Museum of Art 2006 Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, Dayton Art Institute 2005 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Kunst 05, Zurich 2005 Camera Sacra, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2004 Prochaine Station Cosmos, Hotel de Sponeck, L'Allan scéne nationale par le19, centre régional d'art contemporain, Montbéliard, France 2004 Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 2003 Michael Hoffman Memorial Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2002 Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50, New York 2002 New Work, New Directions, LA County Museum of Art 2000 The Best of Aperture, Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York 2000 The Holy Land Revealed, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2000 100 Years of Photography in Eretz Israel. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Publications 2002 Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 2002 Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land, Aperture Press, New York (Winner of New York Book Show Prize, First Place Photography, 2002) Accompanied by an Aperture traveling exhibition 2002 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World, Aperture Press, New York 2nd Hardbound Edition & Softcover Editions 2002 In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan, Abbeville Press, New York 2nd Edition 1995 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World, Aperture Press, New York (Publication accompanied by a portfolio and travelling exhibition, Winner of National Jewish Book Award 1996) 1987 In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan, Abbeville Press, New York 1986 The Walls of the Old City of Jerusalem (portfolio) 1984 Sinai, Adam Publishers, Jerusalem 1975 We Are Thy People, Bet-Alpha Press, Berkeley, CA Collections Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris Canadian Centre for Architecture, Toronto Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Israel Museum, Jerusalem Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ludwig Museum, Cologne Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Jose Museum of Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tel-Aviv Museum Yale University Museum of Art
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