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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Gerald Panter’s passion for street photography has been the driving force which, over the past thirty-five years, has taken him throughout the United States and Europe pursuing captivating photo opportunities.

Panter’s work has appeared in magazines and newspapers, foreign and domestic, and has been the subject of exhibitions in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and San Diego. His photographs of Paris were part of a major exhibition hosted by the French Consul General in Los Angeles and his photographs of New York City were included in the internationally-acclaimed “here is new york” photo archive of the 2001 World Trade Center tragedy. In 2004, four of his photographs were accepted for inclusion in the library archives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance. His work is included in the recently-published compendium of photographic images of Los Angeles, Looking at Los Angeles.

For the past ten years, he has traveled throughout Paris, meticulously photographing those buildings, fountains, bridges and picturesque narrow streets from the same perspective and size which Eugène Atget had photographed them a hundred years earlier as part of his documentation of the art and architecture of Paris. The success of that comprehensive project, "Atget's Paris: Then and Now" (“Le Paris d’Atget: d’alors et aujourd’hui”), formed the basis for his lectures about Atget, the man and his methodology, accompanying exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum (“The Man in the Street; Eugène Atget in Paris”) and the Museum of the City of New York (“A Portrait of Paris: Eugène Atget at Work”). This project, consisting of over 250 images, was featured in the photography section of the 2001 edition of The American Annual.

In Los Angeles, he has compiled an exhaustive photographic documentation of a heretofore unexplored indigenous facet of Southern California life: those fast-disappearing quaint little free-standing hamburger, hot dog and taco stands which serve Angelinos eating on the run. This project was the subject of articles in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post in 2005.

Currently, he continues his uncompromising documentation of the unconventional events, people and places along Hollywood Boulevard’s “Walk of Fame.”

In speaking of his approach to these photographic surveys, he says, “Although the photographs in these projects are documentary in nature, my objective is to have them be artistic as well; I have aimed at realism, but not at the cost of sacrificing aesthetic factors.”

© 2005-2008 G.M. Panter.  All rights reserved.