GEORGE KREVSKY GALLERY

RICHARD NAGLER
Studio: Richard Nagler Fine Arts
2247 5th St, Berkeley, CA 94710-2216

Website: richardnagler.com
Email: richard@richardnagler.com
(510) 244-1000

Born: New York City, 1947

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania, BA 1969, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• California College of Arts and Crafts, 1972

Selected Exhibitions in Photography:

• San Francisco Photographic Fair, 1978, First Prize Color Photography, juried group show
• Image Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, "The Urban Landscape," January 8 through 31, 1983, one-person show
• Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, "Focus on Old Oakland 1973-1983," November 7 through December 23, 1983, one-person   show
• Oakland Museum Collector's Gallery, "Selected Images," March 1 through 31, 1984, one-person show
• Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, "Lost Miami Beach," March 17 through April 17, 1984, one-person show
• California ProArts, "Picture Oakland," June 1984, First Prize Color Photography, juried group show
• San Francisco Arts Commission, "Snap '85," July 5 through 31, 1985, group show
• Dalian, China, "Oakland, California, U. S. A.," January 1986, continuing exhibition, group show
• Eye Gallery, San Francisco, California, "Selections," May 8 through    28, 1987, juried group show
• Blake Street Gallery, Berkeley, California, "Only in Miami Beach," concurrent exhibition with A Traveling Jewish Theatre, October through November 1987 
• Twining Gallery, New York City, "A Kiss is Just A Kiss," September 27 through October 30, 1988, traveling group exhibition
• Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, "A Kiss is Just a Kiss," January 14 through February 1989, traveling group exhibition
• Festival at The Lake, Oakland, California "Best of the Decade" Best of Show, Grand prize, juried group exhibition, June 1989
• Faulkner Color Lab, San Francisco, California, Selections from "Best of the Decade" July 10 through August 4, 1989
• Gallery Arcade, Oakland, California, "Through the Lens Lightly,  Photographers Look at Oakland" August 15 through September 10, 1991, two-person show
• Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, "My Love Affair With Miami Beach" January 12, through April 26, 1992, one-person show, traveling
• Albert Einstein Center, Sacramento, California, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” January 5 through February 3, 1993
• Jewish Community Center, Washington, D. C., “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” February 6 through March 19, 1993
• Jewish Festival of the Arts, Vancouver, B. C., “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” April 8 through June 4, 1993
• Beth Hatefutsoth/Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” June 7 through July 5, 1993
• Dubin/Wolf Exhibit Center, Los Angeles, California, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” September 1 through November 1, 1993
• Gilbert Pavilion, Riverdale, N. Y., “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” December 10, 1993 through January 30, 1994
• Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” March 20 through April 22, 1994
• May Museum, Lawrence, New York, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” November 11, 1994 through January 25, 1995
• University of California, Santa Cruz, California, “My Love Affair With Miami Beach,” April 1, 1995 through April 25, 1995
• Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, “It Belongs in a Museum: Acquisitions 1992-1995,” February 1995 through July 1995
• The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, “Hubba City,” a play by Ishmael Reed, slide presentation, February 2, 1996 through March 31, 1996, reviews New York Times, Village Voice
• The Jewish Museum, New York City, “Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey,” July 26, 1996 through January 7, 1997, group exhibition
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, March 5, 1998 through March 28, 1998, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Pure Art vs. Agit-Prop,” artist portrait   
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, July 9, 1998 through August 8, 1998, “Gallery Artists” group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, By-the-Sea,  October 14, 1999 through December 11, 1999, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, Diamonds and Dust: the art of baseball, April 6, 2000 through May 20, 2000, group show
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California, Contemporary Perspectives, February 15, 2004 through April 29, 2004, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, Art of the Game:  The Art of Baseball, April 8, 2004 through May 1, 2004, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Such is Life, 30 Years of Photography, “ June 3, 2004 through July 6, 2004, one-person show
• Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, Israel, “Faces/Places/Identity - Portraits of Jews 1975-1995,” December 7, 2004, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Architecture in Art,” December 24, 2005 through February 11, 2006, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Faces and Places,”December 13, 2006 through January 27, 2007, group show 
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Spring Training: The Art of Baseball,” March 15, 2007 through April 28, 2007, group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “The Unspoken Word,” November 1, 2007 through December 8, 2007         one-person show
• University of Michigan/Institute for the Humanities and Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish Studies “Looks Given/Looks Taken: Jews and Urban Photography” March 10 through May 15, 2008
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Summer Reading,” July 1, 2010 through October 2, 2010 group show
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge,” May 3, 2012 through June 9, 2012 group show
• Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California, “Cross-Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti,” June 23, 2012 through September 23, 2012, artist portrait
• Kala Art Gallery, Berkeley, California October 4, 2012 through November 21, 2012, “Keeping Time,” group show
• History Miami Museum, Miami, Florida, “South Beach - Photographs of a Jewish Community 1974 -1990” October 27. 2017 - April 1, 2018, group show
• Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, “In Focus: Current Photography” January 16, 2018 - March 8, 2018, juried group show
• Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, Arizona, “Picturing Resistance” September 10, 2022 - October 22, 2022, juried group show
• George Krevsky Gallery “Politics and Poker” August 16, 2023 through October 20, 2023

Selected Public Collections:

• The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
• The Jewish Museum, New York City
• The Port of Oakland Collection, Oakland, California
• The Forum Gallery Collection, New York City
• Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
• Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, Israel
• di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California
• Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California
• One California Bank
• The de Young Museum, San Francisco

Selected Private Collections:

• Paul and Prentice Sack
• Rene di Rosa
• John and Gretchen Berggruen
• Andrew and Barbara Fremder
• Robert Mailer Anderson
• Jane Levy Reed
• George and Doris Krevsky

Books by Richard Nagler:

• MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MIAMI BEACH, Photographs by Richard Nagler, Introduction and Commentary by Isaac Bashevis Singer, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991)
• OAKLAND RHAPSODY: The Secret Soul of an American Downtown, Photographs by Richard Nagler, Introduction and Commentary by Ishmael Reed, (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1995)
• WORD ON THE STREET, Photographs by Richard Nagler, Introduction by Peter Selz, (Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, 2010)
• LOOKING AT ART/The Art of Looking, Photographs by Richard Nagler, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin, (Heyday Books, Berkeley, California 2014) 

Awards/Recognition:

• Finalist USA Book Awards/Best Photography Book 2014
• Gold Medal for Photography in the Non-Fiction Book Awards 2014
• First Prize in Photography at the Beverly Hills Book  Awards 2014
• National Independent Book Award for Excellence in Photography
• Finalist in the Indiefab Book Awards for 2014

Selected Publications:

• The Oakland Tribune, "Images of Old Oakland by Richard Nagler," December 8, 1983, photographs
• Exhibition catalog, "Focus on Old Oakland, 1973 - 1983, Photographs by Richard Nagler," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
• California Living, "Picture Show, Photography by Richard Nagler,” March 11, 1984, text and photograph
• Judisk Krönika, Stockholm, Sweden, November, 1992 “Miami Beach - en fotoessä av Richard Nagler,” photographs
• Hudson Monitor, August, 1992, “Down Miami Way,” by Rose E. London, photograph
• ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL, March 1993, “Miami Fantasia, Part 2,” by Rhonda Lieberman, photographs
• Moment, April 1993, “Loving It Up in Miami Beach: I. B. Singer discovers remnants of the Old World, documented by the photographer Richard Nagler, in a New World Paradise,” by Jacob A. Stein, photographs
• South Florida, May 1993,”What Stocks Would You Buy For Your Mother?” by David Nickell, photographs
• South Florida, May 1994, “The Last Resort,” by Beth Dunlop, photograph
• Forward, May 27, 1994, “Searching for Their Place in the Sunbelt: How Jews Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Miami and L. A.,” photograph
• The Montclarion, May 23, 1995, “Illustrating Downtown’s Poetry,” by Michael Fitelson, photographs
• The Oakland Tribune, May 25, 1995, “Ode to Oakland: Photographer Richard Nagler and author Ishmael Reed Offer an Unflinching Portrait of the City,” by Jolene Thym, photographs
• San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Sunday, June 11, 1995, “Oakland Rhapsody; Its People Make This City of Extremes Virtually Indestructible,” Text by Ishmael Reed and Photographss by Richard Nagler.
• Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer, by Israel Zamir (Arcade Publishing, New York, 1995) photographs
• Docteur Zorn, by James Michener, (Editions du Rocher, Paris, 1996) cover photograph
• Ocean Drive,  September 1990, “A to Z, The Ultimate Guide to South Florida,” photograph
• The Book of Blessings,  by Marcia Falk, (HarperCollins, San Francisco 1996,) author portrait
• School is Not Cool: Youth, Color and Opportunities, edited by Steen Fiil and Inger Lehman, Klims Sprogserie Engelsk, Forlaget Klim, Denmark, 1996, front cover and back cover photographs, interior photographs
• Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1998, “Tough Jews,” book review, photograph
• San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 10, 1999, “ ‘By-the-Sea,’ through December 11, George Krevsky Gallery” Critic’s Choice, review 
• Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Rose, by Martin Sherman, theatre program, photograph, May 2000
• The Reed Reader, an Ishmael Reed anthology, (Basic Books, New York, 2000,) cover portrait, author portrait
• Showing Out: A Novel, by Timothy Reed,  (Thunder Mouth’s Press, New York, 2003) author portrait
• Blues City, by Ishmael Reed, (Crown Publishers, New York,  2003) author portrait, photograph
• Art of the Game: The Art of Baseball, (EPress Books, San Francisco, 2004), photograph
• Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album, (The Library of America, New York, 2004) photographs
• Jack Levine: America’s Living Master, ( EPress Books, San Francisco, 2004) artist portrait
• Playboy Magazine, September 2005, author portrait, Ishmael Reed
• The Forward, December 15,2006, “Sunrise? Sunset?: Two New Projects Train a Lens on Jewish Florida,” photograph
• Diablo Magazine,  June 2007, “7th Street Blues: An  Amazing Music Scene Once Thrived in West Oakland,” photographs
• One Voice, Many Echoes: Selected Prose, by Rebecca Camhi Fromer, (Regent Press, Berkeley, California 2007), photograph
• Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections, by Ishmael Reed, (Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2008) cover photograph
• Artweek, February 2008, “Richard Nagler at George Krevsky Gallery,” review
• High Country News, November 22, 2010, photograph
• The Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2011, “Word on the Street Collects Richard Nagler’s Word Pictures,” by Leah Ollman
• The San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 2011, “About Word on the Street,” photographs
• Black and White + Color Magazine, June 2011, “Creative Journey/ Richard Nagler: Staying One Step Ahead of Time,” by Richard Pitnick
• Rangefinder Magazine, January 2012, “Richard Nagler: When the Picture is a Word,” by Jim Cornfield, photographs
• Shutterbug Magazine, July 28, 2014, Photo Book Review: “Looking at Art: The Art of Looking” by Richard Nagler, photographs
• San Francisco Chronicle, September 2, 2014, “Photography: Images that reframe the experience of art,” by Julian Guthrie, photographs
• Bay Area News Group, June 8, 2014, “The Art of Appreciation/Photographer Takes Camera into World’s Great Institutions,” photographs
• San Francisco Examiner, September 4, 2014, “Looking at Art: a Photo Book with Wit, Power,” photographs
• Wait Till I’m Dead/Uncollected Poems of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan, (Grove Press, New York, 2016,) photographs
• How To Photograph Everything, Popular Photography/WeldonOwen Press, (San Francisco, 2016,) photographs
• Alta Magazine, November 2020, “Blues City: A Walk in Oakland” photographs
• Go Ask Ozzie, by Patricia Polacco, Simon & Schuster, 2021, photographs
• Jewish Culture and History, September 1, 2023, “Miami Beach: The Making of a Jewish Resort City,” by Deborah Dash Moore, text and photographs
• Forum: The Magazine of Florida Humanities, Summer 2023, “Finding Eden,” text and photographs

Selected Public Appearances:

• Miami Book Fair International, November 16, 1991, Miami, Florida,  “Richard Nagler on My Love Affair with Miami Beach,” lecture and slide presentation
• National Public Radio, “All Things Considered,” December 17, 1991, interview with Lynn Neery
• Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, “Miami Beach and the Jews of South Florida,” June 14, 1993, lecture and slide presentation
• National Public Radio, “Photography Talk,” May 24, 1995, interview with Michael Johnson
• KRON TV, Channel 4, “Bay Area Close-Up,” June 6, 1995, interview with Belva Davis
• Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, Lecture, November 30, 2010
• Berkeley Public Library Foundation, Honored Authors Dinner, February 6, 2016, Berkeley, California
• Art Deco Weekend, Miami Beach, Florida, February 2019, Wolfsonian Foundation, lecture and video presentation

Affiliations:

• Trustee, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California,  1989 - 1996
• Trustee, The Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, 1994 -2004 present, vice-president 1996 - 1999
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Foto Forum, 1996 - 2008
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Accessions Committee, 1997 – 1998
• Trustee, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California 2009 - 2013

Endowments:

• Founded and Endowed 1997, “The Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography,” at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, an annual international photography competition for photographers working on a Jewish subject

Representation:

• Vision Gallery, 1155 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94103, 1992-1996
• George Krevsky Gallery, 5529 Golden Gate Ave, Oakland, CA 94618-2110, 1997-present (510) 817-4944