COLEMAN, A(llan) D(ouglass)

COLEMAN, A(llan) D(ouglass). American, b. 1943. Genres: Communications/Media, Photography, Art/Art history. Career: Vice-President, Photography Media Institute, NYC, since 1977. Ed. Emeritus, VIEWS: A New England Journal of Photography, Boston, since 1982 (Founding Ed., 1979-81). Photography Critic, New York Observer, since 1988. Senior Contributing Editor, Camera & Darkroom, 1990-95; Columnist, Photo Metro, 1989-, and Photography In New York, 1992-. Member, Board of Dirs., Center for Photography in Woodstock, since 1982, and Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, since 1982. Executive Vice-President, and Chairman of the Membership Committee, International Association of Art Critics, 1987-92. Photography Critic, The Village Voice, NYC, 1968-73, and the New York Times, 1970-74; Contributing Ed., Camera 35, 1975-82; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Photography, Tisch School of Arts, New York University, NYC, 1979-93. Member, Board of Dirs., Photographic Resource Center, Boston, 1978-82; Member, Board of Dirs., and Chairman of the Committee on Censorship and Freedom of Vision, Society for Photographic Education, 1982-84. Publications: The Grotesque in Photography, 1977; Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings 1968-1978, 1979; Lee/Model/Parks/Samaras/Turner: Five Interviews Before the Fact, 1979; (with Patricia Grantz and Douglas Sheer) The Photography A-V Program Directory, 1980; Tarnisched Silver, 1996; Available Light, 1997; Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media and Lens Culture, 1998. Address: 465 Van Duzer St, Staten Island, NY 10304-2029, U.S.A.