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Gordon Ackerman

Gordon Ackerman's Artwork


Artist Statement

Gordon Ackerman was born in Albany, and educated at the Albany Academy, Boston University and the University of Paris. He worked in Paris for many years as a writer and correspondant for major print and broadcast media, notably Time-Life, ABC News and CBS News. His writing and war reporting are in permanent collection at The University of Wyoming and the American Heritage Foundation.

Mr. Ackerman's photography has been exhibited in Finland and the UK, and acquired and exhibited by the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Stockmann Gallery in Finland. His work has been published in various German art-photography magazines.

He photographs with 35mm positive color film, and prints his work on chromogenic paper.

In an interview with Leica International Photography magazine in 1996, Mr. Ackerman said, "I never carry a camera and I don't look for things to photographs. If you hunt subjects, they'll run. They have to come at you randomly. You have to see them 'out of the corner of your eye' as you go through your day. If I see something that strikes me, I go back with my equipment the next day. I use a tripod most of the time, and the longest exposures possible - up to a full minute. My favorite subjects are interiors. I tend not to do portraits because I don't believe they reveal anything significant about the subject. I believe that a person's surroundings - where he or she lives; his or her furnishings and interior decorations; how he or she dresses - tell us more about the person than a portrait."