Ryan Weideman

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Ryan Weideman (born 1941) [1] is an American photographer, living in New York City, who photographed his passengers while working as a taxi driver there between 1981 and 2016. [2] [3] He produced a book of his photographs, In My Taxi: New York After Hours (1991). He also makes lithographic print-based art.

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Weideman's photographic and lithographic prints are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, [4] Art Institute of Chicago, [1] Harry Ransom Center, [5] Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [6] and Portland Art Museum. [7] In 1992 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his photography. [8]

Early life and education

Weideman grew up in the Midwestern United States. [9] In 1973, he earned a BA in photography and printmaking from Long Beach State University at Long Beach, California. [10] In 1975, he earned a MFA in the same subjects from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. As of 1978 he was living in Oakland. [2] [11] [12]

Life and work

In 1980, Weideman moved to New York City, living in an apartment in Times Square. From 1981, he took a job as a taxi driver and from that vantage photographed his passengers, while working from 5pm to 5am three or four nights a week. The rest of his time was spent developing film and making black and white prints. After the first six or seven years he included himself in the photographs. A book of this work, described in The Independent as "democratic, slice-of-life reportage", was published in 1991 titled In My Taxi: New York After Hours. Weideman stopped driving cabs in 2016 and as of 2018 was still living in the same apartment in Times Square. [2] [9] [12]

He also makes lithographic print-based art.

Publications

Awards

Collections

Weideman's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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