Rodney Smith graduated from the University of Virginia in 1970. He
went on to earn a Master of Divinity in Theology from Yale University in
1973. While at Yale, Rodney also studied photography under Walker
Evans. Mr. Smith is a photographer based in New York with years of
teaching experience, including a adjunct professorship at Yale
University. He regularly teaches a workshop at the Santa Fe Photographic
Workshop in New Mexico.
Along with his personal work, Mr. Smith has been commissioned to do
assignment work for clients such as American Express, I.B.M., H.J Heinz,
Merrill Lynch, the New York Stock Exchange, B.M.W., Starbucks Coffee,
and House Beautiful Magazine, MCI Worldcom, VISA, and The New York City
Ballet. In addition to this corporate and advertising work, his fashion
include Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Ralph
Lauren, Ellen Tracy, The New York Times Magazine and W Magazine.
In 1975 he received a Jerusalem Foundation Fellowship which enabled
him to live in Jerusalem for three months. This work resulted in his
first book, In the Land of Light, published by Houghton-Mifflin Company
in 1983. His second book, entitled The Hat Book was published by
Doubleday in the Fall of 1993. Currently, Mr. Smith is working on his
third book. He lives with his wife and daughter in Snedens Landing, a
small community on the Hudson near New York City.
I get a "classic" feel for his work. It's not a big show to capture as many elements in a photograph, but rather just capture the model in a simple, dapper way. I really like a couple of other photographs of his that are quirky in how the figure interacts with the lanscape
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