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David Vestal

{{Short description|American photographer (1924-2013)}}

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David Vestal (March 21, 1924 – December 5, 2013) was an American photographer of the New York school,Livingston, Jane: The New York School: Photographs 1936–1963, reviewed in Goldberg, Vicki, "Photography," New York Times, January 27, 2008 a critic, and teacher.{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500356037|title=ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)|website=www.getty.edu|access-date=2019-06-18}}

Career

Vestal was born on March 21, 1924, in Menlo Park, California. He studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago but took up photography during the late 1940s after moving to New York where the majority of his street photography and cityscapes were made.{{Citation | author1=Marix Evans, Martin | author2=Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948- | author3=Baskakov, Andreĭ | title=Contemporary photographers | date=1995 | publisher=New York St. James Press | edition=3rd | isbn=978-1-55862-190-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryphot00mart }}

From the mid-fifties Vestal exhibited his photography and was included in eight exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/history?constituent_id=6142&locale=en&sort_date=closing_date|title=Exhibition history {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2019-06-18}} where his work is included in its collections and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships in 1966 and 1973.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1966 Fellows Page, {{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/66fellow.html |title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1966 Fellows Page |accessdate=2008-01-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204224033/http://www.gf.org/66fellow.html |archivedate=2008-02-04 }} Retrieved January 27, 2008

A lifelong educator, he taught at Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, and at Pratt Institute, and also gave numerous lectures and workshops around the country.

A frequent writer on the medium, his column, "Vestal at Large," was a regular feature in Photo Techniques magazine,Photo Techniques Magazine {{cite web |url=http://www.phototechmag.com/current.htm |title=Photo Techniques Magazine - the Magazine dedicated to professional photographers interested in darkroom coverage, articles on black and white photography, color photography and improving their prints and slides |accessdate=2008-01-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030060226/http://www.phototechmag.com/current.htm |archivedate=2007-10-30 }} Retrieved January 27, 2008 and his books include The Art of Black and White Enlarging (1984) and The Craft of Photography (1975).

Vestal died on December 14, 2013, at his home in Bethlehem, Connecticut.{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Photographer-David-Vestal-Passes-Away-20131205|title=Broadway World – Broadway News, Tickets, Videos & More}}

Publications

  • David Vestal. The Craft of Photography. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. {{ISBN|0060144971}}.
  • Updated edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. {{ISBN|0060906227}}.
  • David Vestal. The Art of Black and White Enlarging. New York: Harper and Row, 1984. {{ISBN|0061818968}}.
  • Douglas O. Morgan, David Vestal and William L. Broecker, eds. Leica Manual: The Complete Book of 35mm Photography. 15th ed. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. {{ISBN|978-0871000033}}.

Exhibitions

= Solo exhibitions =

  • Limelight Gallery, David Vestal, January 3-February 14, 1955{{Citation|author1=Helen Gee|title=Limelight a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir|date=1997|edition=1st|publisher=Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press|isbn=978-0-8263-1783-4|url=https://archive.org/details/limelightgreenwi00geeh}}
  • 1987: Galeria del Bosque, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • 1987: Salon de la Plastica Mexican, Mexico
  • 1988: Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • 1989: Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL
  • 1989: Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • 2001: A Quiet Light, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2010: Once Upon A Time In New York, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY.

= Group exhibitions =

  • The Museum of Modern Art, Steichen Gallery Reinstallation, April 2, 1971
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions: Photography, October 6, 1965 – January 9, 1966
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions, December 21, 1960 – February 5, 1961
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs for Collectors, October 1–16, 1960
  • The Museum of Modern Art, 70 Photographers Look at New York, November 27, 1957 – April 15, 1958
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Christmas Photographs, November 29, 1951 – January 6, 1952
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs by 51 Photographers, August 1–September 17, 1950
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Color Photography, May 9–July 4, 1950

Collections

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Category:1924 births

Category:2013 deaths

Category:American photographers

Category:People from Menlo Park, California

Category:People from Bethlehem, Connecticut

Category:Writers on photographic techniques