Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon was an American photographer who photographed all over America for more than 40 years.

Life and work
Gordon was educated at University of Chicago (1963-67).

His book American Surveillance (2009) takes a visually intricate, and often witty look at the role and surveillance and the difference between observation and electronic scrutiny.

He wrote reviews of photography for various publications including for the photo-eye website.

Gordon conceived and then executed The Firestorm Family Portrait Project. Together with Chris Johnson, other local professional photographers, California College of the Arts, local photo labs and Kodak, the project was about replacing, or a new beginning of, a family photo archive for those who lost their possessions in the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

In 2012 Gordon had group shows at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Portrayal Betrayal, the Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) Inside/Outside, and a one-man show at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.

Counting The House is one of the books illustrated in photo photo photo books, 802 photo books from the M.+M. Auer Collection, 2007 Editions M+M (Switzerland).

Gordon was a part-time instructor at City College of San Francisco, Stanford University Continuing Studies and other San Francisco Bay Area colleges.

He lived in Berkeley, California.

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