{{Short description|American photographer (1939–2020)}} '''John Pfahl''' (February 17, 1939 – April 15, 2020) was an American photographer.<ref name="Sandomir">{{cite news|first1=Richard|last1=Sandomir|accessdate=2020-04-30|title=John Pfahl, Photographer Who Played With Landscapes, Dies at 81|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/arts/john-pfahl-photographer-who-played-with-landscapes-dies-at-81.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 April 2020|issn=0362-4331|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
== Life== Pfahl was born in New York City and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-30|title=John Pfahl|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/john-pfahl|date=20 April 2020|website=International Center of Photography}}</ref> He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and his MA from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, from 1968 to 1983. Later he was professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In 2012 he taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Pfahl died from COVID-19 on April 15, 2020, in Buffalo, New York during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.<ref name="Sandomir" /><ref>{{cite web|first1=Anne|last1=Neville|accessdate=2021-01-22|title=John Pfahl, 81, world renowned photographer focused lens on Buffalo|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/local/john-pfahl-81-world-renowned-photographer-focused-lens-on-buffalo/article_127bb3be-a6c2-582d-ab41-9d83bdce75d4.html|website=The Buffalo News|date=18 April 2020 }}</ref>
== Publications ==
*''A Distanced Land – The Photographs of John Pfahl''. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. {{ISBN|0-8263-1214-4}}. * With Rebecca Solnit: ''Extreme Horticulture.'' London: Frances Lincoln, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0711220126}}.
==Collections== Pfahl's work is held in the following permanent collections: *Art Institute of Chicago: 81 prints (as of January 2021)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2021-01-22|title=John Pfahl|url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/36187/john-pfahl|website=The Art Institute of Chicago}}</ref> *Cleveland Museum of Art: 3 prints (as of January 2021)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2021-01-22|title=Search the Collection|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-artist=John%20Pfahl|website=Cleveland Museum of Art}}</ref> *George Eastman House International Museum of Photography<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2021-01-22|title=Works {{!}} John Pfahl {{!}} People {{!}} George Eastman Museum|url=https://collections.eastman.org/people/47584/john-pfahl/objects|website=collections.eastman.org}}</ref> *Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-30|title=John Pfahl|url=https://www.moca.org/artist/john-pfahl|website=www.moca.org}}</ref> *Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 17 prints (as of January 2021)<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2021-01-22|title=Museum of Contemporary Photography|url=https://www.mocp.org/detail.php?type=related&kv=6807&t=people|website=www.mocp.org|archive-date=2020-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025165501/https://www.mocp.org/detail.php?type=related&kv=6807&t=people|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-30|title=John Pfahl|url=https://smartcollection.uchicago.edu/people/9324/john-pfahl|website=smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/}}</ref>
==See also== *List of photographers *Land art
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060304071143/http://www.geh.org/fm/pfahl/htmlsrc2/pfahlalt_sld00001.html George Eastman House: John Pfahl] * [http://www.johnpfahl.com/ Pfahl's site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501210825/https://johnpfahl.com/ |date=2020-05-01 }}
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