Biography
Leonard Sussman (San Francisco, California, 1947) has been photographing for over 40 years. He has had numerous individual and group exhibits in the United States and Europe. He was represented by the Witkin Gallery in New York until it closed in 1998.
Sussman worked exclusively in black and white until his recent digital color work in Berlin, Turin, and Provence.
His major published work is Sardinia, 2000. He is currently at work on a book of photographs of southern France.
Sussman has a B.A. in Art from the University of California, Berkeley (1968) and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (1977). He is a Professor of Art at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Major projects include:
Provence, France
Landscapes. In black and white and digital color.
Torino, Italy
The urban transportation network in Torino, including: the new subway system, busses, trams, and the users of the system. In digital color.
Berlin, Germany
The urban environment including the the Berlin Subway system as well as visual relationships between structures, artifacts and riders. In black and white and digital color.
Sardinia
Landscapes. In black and white.
Italy
Landscapes and urban street scenes of Tuscany, Umbria, Liguria, Emilia-Romana, and Piedmont.
In black and white.
Wall Street
Street scenes of the urban environment. In black and white.