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For years Robert Glenn Ketchum's imagery and books have helped to define contemporary color photography while at the same time addressing critical national....
Robert Glenn Ketchum
American photographer
Robert Glenn Ketchum (born December 1, 1947) is an American conservation photographer, recognized by Audubon magazine as one of 100 people "who shaped the environmental movement in the 20th century.".[1]
Life and career
Ketchum attended high school at the Webb School of California.
Previously, he was Curator of Photography for the National Park Foundation for 15 years, and was a member of the board, vice-president, and president of the.
He received a B.A. in design from UCLA and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1974. He studied photography under the direction of Edmund Teske and Robert Heinecken. After he graduated he began a lifelong friendship with Eliot Porter, who helped form his ideas about photography and about how photography can be used to help change the world.
His commitment to conservation photography is unique amongst academically-trained photographers.
Prior to his emergence as a photographer, he was a widely recognized curator, discovering the Paul Outerbridge, Jr. estate,[2] and bringing recognition to the overlooked work of Jame