Neil Folberg: Comet Hale Bopp, 1997

Gelatin-Silver Print
Image Size: 10 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.
Paper Size: 15 5/8 × 11 15/16 in.
Edition of 49 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Neil Folberg (b. 1950, San Francisco, California) is an American-Israeli photographer and gallerist. He is widely known for his color photographs of the landscape and architecture of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Folberg received his BA in Photographic Field Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Celestial Nights represents a return to black-and-white photographs, a technique Folberg honed as a student and colleague of the late Ansel Adams. Folberg’s first book was In A Desert Land (Abbeville Press, 1987); his second, And I Shall Dwell Among Them (Aperture, 1995), a study of the architecture of synagogues throughout the Jewish diaspora, received the National Jewish Book Award. Galleries worldwide have exhibited Folberg’s work; his photographs are in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; and the Tel-Aviv Museum, among others. Folberg has lived in Jerusalem with his wife and three sons since 1976, where he founded the Vision/Neil Folberg Gallery.