Richard Renaldi

{{Short description|American portrait photographer}}

Richard Renaldi (born 1968) is an American portrait photographer.{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/fashion/richard-renaldi-manhattan-sunday-morning-after-party-photography.html | date = 27 March 2017 | access-date = 6 June 2017| first = Brian | last = Sloan | newspaper = The New York Times | title = When the Party's Over, He Picks Up His Camera}} His four main books each contain portraits of people Renaldi met in public, and some landscapes, made over numerous years with an 8×10 large format view camera. Those books are: Figure and Ground (2006)—various people throughout the USA;{{cite web | url = https://www.lensculture.com/articles/richard-renaldi-figure-and-ground | first = Jim | last = Casper | access-date = 8 June 2017 | publisher = LensCulture | title = Figure and Ground: Portraits and Landscapes from 21st Century America}} Fall River Boys (2009)—young men (and some women) growing up in the post-industrial city of Fall River, Massachusetts; Touching Strangers (2014)—strangers posed by Renaldi physically touching in some way, made all over the USA;{{cite news | url = http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/manhattan-sunday | date = 28 March 2014 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | first = Jessie | last = Wender | newspaper = The New Yorker | title = Manhattan Sunday}}{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/mar/14/touching-strangers-richard-renaldi-photography | date = 14 March 2014 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | first = Clare | last = Longrigg | newspaper = The Guardian | location = London | title = Brief encounter: touching strangers – in pictures}}{{cite news | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/richard-renaldi_n_3604763.html | date = 16 July 2013 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | first = Priscilla | last = Frank | work = The Huffington Post | title = Richard Renaldi's 'Touching Strangers' Brings Strange Intimacy To Portraiture (PHOTOS)}}{{cite web | url = http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/01/richard_renaldi_touching_strangers_focuses_on_intimate_moments_between_strangers.html | first = David | last = Rosenberg | date = 1 April 2014 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | publisher = Slate | title = The Art of Posing Perfect Strangers}}{{cite news | url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-richard-renaldi-review-luma-chicago-art-20150709-column.html | date = 9 July 2015 | access-date = 6 June 2017| first = Lori | last = Waxman | newspaper = Chicago Tribune | title = Strange pairings: Richard Renaldi's fictional portraits}} and Manhattan Sunday (2016)—LGBT people photographed between midnight and 10 am on Sundays mainly on the streets of Manhattan having left nightclubs.{{cite web | url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/02/richard-renaldi/ | first = Izabela | last = Radwanska Zhang | date = 8 February 2017 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | publisher = British Journal of Photography | title = Richard Renaldi reflects on shooting Manhattan Sunday}}{{cite web | url = http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/35165/1/richard-renaldi-photos-of-new-york-taken-the-morning-after-the-night-before | date = 30 March 2017 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | first = Miss | last = Rosen | publisher = Dazed | title = Photos of New York taken the morning after the night before}}{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/18/new-york-city-gay-clubs-richard-renaldi-photos | date = 18 January 2017 | access-date = 6 June 2017 | first = Tom | last = Seymour | newspaper = The Guardian | location = London | title = After hours: capturing the journey home from New York City's gay nightclubs}}

Touching Strangers had a solo exhibition at Aperture Foundation, and Manhattan Sunday,{{cite web|url = http://aperture.org/exhibition/touching-strangers-photographs-richard-renaldi/ | access-date = 6 June 2017 | publisher = Aperture Foundation | title = Touching Strangers, photographs by Richard Renaldi}} for which Renaldi received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, had a solo show at George Eastman Museum.{{cite web|url = https://eastman.org/richard-renaldi-manhattan-sunday | access-date = 6 June 2017 | publisher = George Eastman Museum | title = Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday}}