Robert Altman Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1944 -

Robert Mark Altman (born October, 1944) is an American photographer.[1] Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams.

He was soon hired as a photojournalist by Rolling Stone magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for Rolling Stone he expanded into fashion photography and fine art. He became a television producer/director for KEMO-TV, an independent station in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a decade beginning in the mid 90s Altman taught web design and Photoshop as adjunct professor for several institutions including San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley.

"Robert Altman's photography was instrumental in portraying the look and feeling and vitality of the Sixties.”