Bill perlmutter biography

  • Bill Perlmutter was.
  • Bill Perlmutter was born on September 5, 1932 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He died on January 3, 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Bill Perlmutter was born in New York on September 5th, 1932.

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    Bill Perlmutter: Through a Soldier's Lens

    Pigeon Fright, Italy, 1956

    'Europe in the Fifties. Through a Soldier's Lens' is a book of photographs by Bill Perlmutter, a soldier with the US army who traveled through Europe beginning in 1954. The photographs were presented for the first time earlier this year by the German house of seltmann+söhne who are thrilled to announce that the book just won silver in the prestigious Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. You can buy a kopia of 'Europe in the Fifties' directly from them, for 40 Euros. Nice Christmas present if anyone's thinking of getting me something. 

    G.I. baby, Germany, 1955

    "It all started in December 1954, when the then 27-year old soldier boarded a troop carrier to Germany, to start his new assignment as a photographer for the U.S. Army magazine. The first images from Perlmutter's Rolleiflex originated during the rough Transatlantic passage. Even though he had never left his home country and was a bit appre

  • bill perlmutter biography

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    Bill Perlmutter was born in New York on September 5th, 1932. He began his career with a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Techniques from the City College Film Institute in New York. In 1954 after graduating from the United States Army Photography School, he spend two years in Europe as a staff photographer for the U.S. Army newspapers based in West Germany. Since then he traveled extensively all around the world as a free-lance photographer. From 1978-1997 he worked as the Vice President of Rainbow Chromes, a company specializing in photographic and digital retouching. His images have been collected and exhibited by fine art galleries world-wide and are in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian and the Museum of the City of New York. Bill Perlmutter passed away on January 3, 2023, at the age of 95 in his hometown of New York.

    2019„Europe in the Fifties - Through a Soldiers Lens“ Centre Charlemangne, Aachen2015„Europe in the

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    Bill Perlmutter (American, born 1932), Canal Street, San Miguel de Allende, 2007

    Lot Details & Additional Photographs

    C-print, 2007, ink signed and dated lower margin, from the series Mexico Color, matted and framed.

    Frame dimensions 26 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.

    Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and New York, New York

    After graduating from United States Army Photography School in 1954, Bill Perlmutter travelled through Europe working as a photographer for the US Army newspapers and was based in West Germany. It is from this that he created Europe in the Fifties: Through a Soldier's Lens, a splendid compilation of post-war scenes. Perlmutter has continued to travel throughout the world as a freelance photographer, and his photographs are included in such significant permanent collections the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of the City of New York; and the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

    Good estate condition; not examined out of