Education

MA (1968) Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

BA (1967) Art Practice, University of Texas, Austin

Experience

Principal Photographer (1979 - current)

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive 

• Responsible for digital and film imaging of a broad range of museum objects and subjects including artwork of all media and periods, architecture, performance and multimedia installations.

Private Practice (1972 - current)

Owner, Benjamin Blackwell Photography

• Specializing in large format film and digital art reproduction

• Formats: 4X5 and 8X10 film, 4X5 digital scanning camera

Photography Clients, partial listing

• American Museum of Natural History

• American Craft Museum

• American Folk Art Museum

• Carnegie Museum of Art

• Chronicle Books

• Chrysler Museum of Art

• Elvehjem Museum of Art

• Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco

• Haines Gallery San Francisco

• High Museum of Art

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

• Houghton Mifflin

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

• Levi Straus & Company

• Library of Congress

• Little Brown & Company

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Marian Goodman Gallery New York

• Matthew Marks Gallery  New York

• Monterey Bay Aquarium

• Monterey Museum of Art

• Musee des Arts Decoratifs

• Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles

• Museum of Craft and Folk Art

• Museum of Modern Art New York

• National Gallery of Art

• New Orleans Museum of Art

• New York Graphic Society

• Oakland Museum of California

• Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• San Diego Museum of Art

• Stanford University Library

• Stanford University Museum of Art

• Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco

• Tomatsu Yagi Design

• University of California Press

• Van Abbemuseum

• Walker Art Center

• Warhol Foundation

• Whitney Museum of Modern Art

Consulting

• Latvian National Library

• University of California Merced Library

• Stanford University Media Preservation Library

• Hewlett Packard (HP Labs, Palo Alto)

• Carnegie Art Museum

• School of Library & Information Sciences, University of North Texas

Presentations

• Better Light User's Conference 2003 "Polarized Light"

• Western Association of Art Conservators 2001 "Digital Photography in Museums"

• Better Light User's Conference 2001 "Fine Art Reproduction"

• Museum Computer Network Conference, 2002., "Digital Scan Back Photography"

• Carnegie Melon Conservation Workshop 2002, "Conservation Issues and    Applications of Digital Photography."

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Teaching  

Digital Imaging Workshop, School for Information Studies, Syracuse University, 2003

Visiting Lecturer in Photography, California State University at Hayward 1976

Visiting Lecturer, Painting Drawing and Design, University of Kansas, 1972-1973

Associate Instructor in Drawing, University of California, Berkeley 1969

Articles

• Light Exposure to Sensitive Artworks During Digital Capture. Spectra, Fall 2000

• Light Exposure to Sensitive Artworks Update, WAAC Journal, Summer 2002

• Ultraviolet and Heat Effects from Photographic Lights – publication pending

Books

       Photographs in numerous art books over the past 20 years

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