Arthur Ollman

These included Laura Gilpin, Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch, Jack Welpott, Ruth Bernhard, Walter Chappell, and Edmund Teske.

For the next three summers, Ollman taught alongside Adams and some of the most prominent photographers of the day, including Roy DeCarava, Olivia Parker, Marie Cosindas, David Kennerly, and Arnold Newman.

In 1983, Ansel Adams recommended Ollman for the position of founding director of The Museum of Photographic Arts slated for San Diego’s Balboa Park.

He served as director for twenty-three years, overseeing two capital expansion projects, development of a permanent collection numbering over 7,000 objects by 2006, and a research library of more than twenty-five thousand books and ephemera.

[4] Ollman curated more than seventy-five exhibitions, many worldwide, including photographers of the time, such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Roy DeCarava, Arnold Newman, Harry Callahan, William Klein, Ruth Bernhard, Eikoh Hosoe, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño, Robert Heinecken, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Susan Meiselas, Duane Michals, and Bill Brandt.

He also organized exhibitions of historical figures, William Henry Fox Talbot, Samuel Bourne, Carleton Watkins, F. Holland Day, Edweard Muybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Roman Vishniac.