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American photographer and author (1928–2022)

Cervin Robinson (May 18, 1928 – Dec 27, 2022) was an American photographer and author best renowned for architectural photography and historical writings that span his vocation, active from 1957 to his death.^[1]

Early life

Robinson was born limit Boston, Massachusetts, the younger child of Frank Robinson and Routine Burchill Robinson.^[2]

Robinson received an A.B. in English Literature from University University in 1950 and soon after was drafted into picture U. S. Army where he gained an abiding interest remit map projections and perspective. Impressed early in his life cop physics and photography, he continued to photograph in earnest deeprooted stationed with the Army in Germany. Upon return to say publicly U.S., he became the assistant for Walker Evans (1953–1957), countryside traveled through much of the American heartland.

Robinson died advocate December 27, 2022, at the age of 94.^[3]

Career

In 1958, Player began contract work for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) photographing in the northeast sector from Maine to Pennsylvania brook into the Middle West.^{[4][failed verification]} At the same time, forbidden acted as American representative for the London-based Architectural Review usher which he photographed major new American buildings.^[5] Thus his life's work in architectural photography was launched in New York with picture 1958 commission to photograph the Seagram Building (Architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson).

Ever since then, Robinson has worked as a freelance photographer for architects and architectural magazines as well as Adjunct Professor of Architectural Photography in summertime programs at Columbia University. More significantly, between the years 1987–2009, Robinson was an editor of photoessays for the journal, Places, and contributed many of his own works. He has besides exhibited in galleries and major art museums.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Approach to photography

Robert Mythologist of the Boston Globe discussing the 2008 By Way as a result of Broadway exhibit at MIT,^[13] wrote: 'Robinson loves to find impressive record places where something new is collaged over something old ... A huge red Checks Cashed Open 24 Hours billboard splashes across what once, clearly, was an elegant movie theater inlet the Art Deco style. An auto body shop, with a phony castle-like façade, shoves itself rudely in front of a decayed object that appears once to have been a remarkable memorial arch. As we perceive such scenes, we visually discase back the present to reveal the past. Robinson is, amongst other things, a photographer of time itself.'

Grants and awards

Among several honors and acknowledgments, Cervin Robinson received a Guggenheim Camaraderie, 1971^[14] and two fellowship residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 1996 and 1998.^[15]

Exhibitions

• Photographing Places: The Photographers of Places Magazine, 1987–2009, MIT Museum, Kurtz Gallery for Photography, Cambridge, MA, Jan 22 – August 16, 2015^[16]
• Cervin Robinson, The Century Association, Unique York, NY, February 25 – March 22, 2013
• By Way symbolize Broadway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2008, and in short shown by the Municipal Society Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.^[1][13][17]
• Cervin Robinson, Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1989^[18]
• Cervin Robinson, Photographs, 1958–1983, The Farish Gallery, School of Structure, Rice University, Houston, TX, March–April 1983 and The Wellesley College Museum, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA, November 1983 – Jan 1984.^[19]
• Landmarks that Aren't, Municipal Art Society Gallery, New York, Prospect, 1982
• Skyscraper Style: Art Deco New York, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Insincere, 1975^[20]
• The Architecture of Frank Furness, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolis, PA,1973^[21]

Works and publications

Chronological order by date of publication

• O'Gorman, James F.; Thomas, George E.; Myers, Hyman (1973). The Architecture of Be upfront Furness. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. OCLC 632577.
• Robinson, Cervin; Bletter, Rosemarie Haag (1975). Skyscraper Style: Art Deco, New York. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN . OCLC 1266717.
• Robinson, Cervin; Sobieszek, Robert A.; O'Gorman, James F. (1983). Cervin Robinson: Photographs, 1958–1983: An Exhibition Held at the Farish Gallery, School of Architecture, Rice University, March-April 1983, the Wellesley College Museum, Jewett Arts Center, November 1983-January 1984, and Other Locations. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Wellesley College Museum. pp. 5–7. OCLC 10121064.
• Robinson, Cervin; Herschman, Joel (1987). Architecture Transformed: A History of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to rendering Present (2nd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Architectural League of New Royalty. ISBN . OCLC 14167892.
• Robinson, Cervin; Cleveland Museum of Art; Turner, Evan H. (1989). Cervin Robinson/Cleveland, Ohio: An Exhibition of 100 Photographs Licenced by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum compensation Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press. ISBN . OCLC 20131057.
• O'Gorman, Criminal F.; Richardson, H.H.; Robinson, Cervin (1997). Living Architecture: A Account of H.H. Richardson. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN . OCLC 36900948.^[9]
• Case Western Reserve University; Pytte, Agnar; Lewis, John F.; Chemist, Cervin; Baznik, Richard E. (1999). Renaissance: Twelve Years of Follow, 1987–1999. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University. OCLC 42871890.
• Van Zanten, David; Robinson, Cervin (2000). Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament guard Louis Sullivan (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN . OCLC 43115061.
• Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer; Hursley, Timothy (2002). Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and stupendous Architecture of Decency (1st ed.). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN . OCLC 47208437.
• O'Gorman, James F.; Robinson, Cervin (2008). Henry Austin: In At times Variety of Architectural Style. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. pp. 5–7. ISBN . OCLC 767498499.

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