Michael Ackerman

Michael Ackerman (born in 1967 with Tel-Aviv, Israel) is a Photographe American autodidact of the Agence CONSIDERING.

Ackerman joined New York in 1974 and produced a series on this city as on other spot which held its attention: Cabbage town, Cracow in Poland and Bénarès in India.

The work of Ackerman in the east big cities impressed of humanity in the photographic treatment of people whom it crosses during its ambulations. He seeks to cause emotions at the spectator with his photographs black and white, sometimes off-gauge or moved, generally taken in a spontaneous way, in the urgency.

He exposes permanently in many galleries and figure in particular in the collection of the European Maison of Photography in Paris.

Publications

Fiction at Nathan/Delpire (2001)
End Time City , with Christian Caujolle at Nathan/Delpire (1999)
Mégapoles - small planet (collective) in the plumed serpent

Press article

Miriam Rosen, “ What was there and what I felt - The pictures off Michael Ackerman ”, in: Art one Paper , New York, Feb Jan. 2002, pp. 48-53

Price

1st Price of International Center off Photography of New York - Category Young Photographer (1998)
Nadar Price for End Time City (1999)

External bonds

Interview of Michael Ackerman by Lionel Boscher, Marie Brazilier, Romain Guillou in the Electric eye n°8

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