John Veltri is a photographer who was born in 1938 in

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Education

Veltri studied filmmaking and theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts,

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Film Studio and

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. He began work as an experimental film maker in San Francisco.

Career

From 1965 to 1975, Veltri worked in New York City where he began to photograph architecture, creating an important visual record of the places and people of Manhattan. He made photographic studies of a number of subjects, including the Statue of Liberty,

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, Jimi Hendrix'

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, and New York's 37th Street, exhibited at the

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. He also illustrated several books written by photographer

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. By the mid-1970s he had returned to California where he has since devoted himself to cinema, making documentaries dealing with native cultures, and social and community issues. Veltri is the photographer for several publications, including ''Statue of Liberty'' ( Doubleday 1971), ''The Parthenon'' (

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1973), ''Architectural Photography'' (AMPHOTO 1974) and ''The Greeks'' (Doubleday 1984). Veltri is also noted for his

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from his work as staff photographer on an archeological expedition that uncovered the oldest shipwreck, the

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, off the north coast of Cyprus. His recent documentary films in-production include "Seasons of the Soul", about American architect John M. Johansen, and "Walking Backwards into the Future", about Native American

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Elder, Charles Thom Sr. Veltri's photographs can be found in the collections of the MoMA, the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the library of the

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, and other private collections.

References

* Veltri, John. 'Architectural Photography' (Garden City, New York: American Photographic Book Publishing Co., 1974), back flap.

External links

John Veltri's website
American documentary filmmakers American film directors Architectural photographers American underwater divers Underwater photographers Photographers from New York (state) 1938 births Living people Los Angeles City College alumni San Francisco State University alumni {{US-photographer-stub