About the Artist

Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, and author based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and the New School University and is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He has also been a member of the faculty at Drew University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and at the University of Bridgeport. A recipient of a Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS) fellowship and numerous artist in residency grants, Stein had a book of photographs, Parallels: A Look at Twins, published by E.P. Dutton in 1978. Stein's second book, Artists Observed, was published by Harry Abrams, Inc. in 1986. His latest book, a color volume of photographs called Coney Island, was published by W.W. Norton in 1998. His photographs have been published in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Time, Life, Esquire, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Glamour, Forbes, Psychology Today, Playboy, Harpers, Connoisseur, Art News, American Artist, New York, People, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and all the major photo magazines, including Camera Arts, Popular Photography, American Photo, Camera, Afterimage, Zoom, Photo Metro, fotoMagazine, and View Camera Magazine.

Stein's photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and EuropeŃ64 one-person and 116 group shows to date. He has also curated numerous exhibits. His photographs are in 50 public collections (and numerous private collections), including the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Denver Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, Museet for Fotokunst (Odense, Denmark), Musee De La Photographie (Charleroi, Belguim), the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the corporate art collections of Polariod, Reader's Digest, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard, LaSalle Bank (Chicago), Barclay Bank and Credit Suisse.