digital nude study (2006) Digital Arts by Rowland Scherman

Rowland Scherman began taking pictures in New York in 1958, when he was an apprentice at the LIFE darkroom. In 1961, a 24-year old freelancer, he served as the first photographer for the Peace Corps. Scherman travelled the world for the newly-formed organization, helping to give the Peace Corps its image. Scherman has done covers and photojournalism for LIFE, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, Playboy, and National Geographic. He won a Grammy Award in 1968 for an album cover for Bob Dylan, and in 1969 was voted Photographer of the Year by the Washington Art Director's Association. He lived in Britain for seven years, and there created the anthropomorphic alphabet, Love Letters. He also herded sheep and was an apprentice carpenter on a farm in South Wales, as well as creating a large file of Welsh landscape images.

Arriving in Birmingham in 1978, Scherman worked in the CETA Mural Project. His commercial and journalistic work in the years 1979-84 led him on a journey up and down Alabama's Route 11, which, with the help of an Art Association Grant, became a fifty-print show, Highway 11. The show opened at the Birmingham Library and travelled the state. In 1991, Scherman published a book, Elvis is Everywhere, which was a photographic documentary of the pervasiveness the King of Rock and Roll still maintains on the American landscape.

Rowland Scherman now lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where his work includes portraits and landscape art photography.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary American Artists