About Philip Adam
My involvement with photography began at age twelve when the family moved to Arrowbear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. Shortly after being introduced to photography I sent a letter with prints to Ansel Adams. An invitation to participate in workshops sponsored by the Friends of Photography resulted in memorable trips north to visit with Ansel and other workshop members. In 1979 I became an apprentice to Senior Photographer Herbert Quick at the University of California at Riverside, Photographic Services Department.
At the conclusion of my tenure with Quick, I relocated to Berkeley California. My first assignment at the National Maritime Museum was to preserve a collection of cellulose nitrate negatives depicting early maritime history in the San Francisco Bay. This work led to an association with anthropologist/Farm Security Administration photographer Dr. John Collier Jr. Other professional affiliations include the Sierra Club, the San Francisco Chronicle and the California Historical Society.
My photographs can be found in a number of collections in California including the State Library in Sacramento, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Davis, Special Collections, the Vacaville Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
 Self-portrait, Chinatown, San Francisco 1984
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Summary
Photographer specializing in fine camera work and the preservation of historical photographic collections.
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Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Page Collection California State Library, Sacramento Bancroft Library, Universiy of California at Berkeley University of California at Davis, Special Collections California Historical Society Vacaville Museum, Solano County California Museum of Photography, Riverside |
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Selected Publications
Jack London, Photographer, University of Georgia Press, 2010Limited edition, Solano's Gold, 2003 Solano's Gold, The People and Their Orchards, Vacaville Museum, 1998 City Lights, Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society, Oxford University Press, 1996 City Lights Review, San Francisco, 1990 SIERRA, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1985 Hidden Marin, Marin Heritage, 1984 |
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Portfolios | |
| Solano's Gold | 2002 |
| Pacific Views | 1993 |
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Selected Exhibitions | |
| Solano County Government Center, Fairfield, California | Permanent Exhibition |
| Hobos to Street People: Artist's Response to Homelessness | 2009 |
| University of California at Davis, Special Collections | 2004 |
| Vacaville Museum, Solano County | 2000 |
| Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art | 1987 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | 1985 |
| California Museum of Photography | 1980 |
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Professional Affiliations | |
| California Historical Society, Photographer | |
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Mechanics' Institute Library, San Francisco Vacaville Museum, Solano County San Francisco Chronicle Sierra Club, San Francisco National Maritime Museum, San Francisco University of California at Riverside, Photographic Services |
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Teaching | |
| University of California at Berkeley, Extension | |
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World College West, Marin County San Francisco Center for the Book University of California at Riverside, Extension |
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