Welcome to Per Volquartz

Yosemite 1976
L to R: Bob Kolbrener, Andy Schumacher, Per Volquartz, Ansel Adams:

Per Volquartz started his career in the visual arts
after graduating from Art Center College of Design in 1971.
At first he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator.
Soon however, he discovered large format photography,
which later proved to be his main direction as a visual artist.

In the summer of 1976 Per Volquartz attended a photographic workshop
in Yosemite. Here he met Ansel Adams and Morley Baer, who together
with the painter, Lorser Feitelson were to inspire him, forming his unique
background in creative photography.
(During the years at Art Center in Los Angeles Per Volquartz had studied
under Lorser Feitelson, the master of modern American hard edge painting.)

This was to become a turning point in his photographic career.
During the next decade and a half he accepted a variety
of commercial assignments from many fortune 500 companies.
He became known for his unique photographic point of view,
and as a master printer.

The photographic images of Per Volquartz have appeared
in most major magazines in the United States. This includes Life Magazine,
Time and Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic and Wall Street Journal.
Articles about his work have also appeared in many publications
including American Photographer magazine, Print Magazine’s Casebooks
(The Best of Annual Reports), in Fotopozytyw, a professional photography magazine
published in Poland, in the January 2009 issue of the largest professional
photo magazine in China, The Photographer’s Companion, and in 2010 a feature article
in View Camera Magazine, USA.
Finally in December of 2010 he was one of 52 photographers from around the world
to be featured in the photo analysis book “Why Photographs Work”, published by
Rocky Nook, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California.
Per Volquartz has received numerous honors for his professional work
during the past 30 years, including a fellowship from
the American Scandinavian Foundation and Award of Excellence from
the American Institute of Graphic Arts and from Print Magazine.
In 2007 he was named Honorary Professor of Humanities and Communication
at Shanghai Normal University for his contribution to the field of photography.
In 2008 he was awarded Honorary Professor of Photography at the New York Center
for Photography in Beijing.
In 2008 he received the Long Chin San Gold medal in Shanghai, China for his
comparative writings on American and Chinese photography.

Major exhibit 2007
In 2007 Per Volquartz had his first retrospective at
Denmark’s Museum of Photography.
The exhibit “Per Volquartz. Thirty Years of Photography” took place
from June 1 to September 30, 2007 in Denmark.
The exhibit show-cased images from the Aluminum Series,
the series known as “Instruments of Death”, as well as landscape,
still life and portraiture.

Major exhibits 2008 - 2009
Shanghai Central Library, Shanghai, China.
Group show: “The American West.”
The Unique Hill Gallery, Shanghai, China.
One man show: “Per Volquartz. Embracing Minimalism.”
9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition 2008.
Group show, major participant.
Fuji Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Group Show.

Major exhibits 2010
Shanghai Science Center. Group show in conjunction with Shanghai Expo 2010.
Suzhou Cultural Center. Group show with Ansel Adams, Per Volquartz and Chinese photographers

Major exhibits 2011
Xuhui Museum of Art, Shanghai, “Music for your Eyes” with Frank Su Huang.

Read about Lorser Feitelson here!

Per Volquartz
Camera: Ebony 8X10
Lens: Cooke Triple Convertible
Tripod: Linhof Heavy Professional Tripod
Photo by Christian Volquartz