BIO:

Roger Minick (born July 13, 1944) is an American Photographer widely known for his series of photographs documenting tourists in the National Parks of the United States. The series, called "Sightseer", has been published in numerous books and widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. In addition to the "Sightseer" series, Minick has worked on numerous other photo projects over the years. His two most well known books are Delta West (1969) and Hills of Home (1975), both published by Scrimshaw Press.

Roger Minick was born in Ramona, Oklahoma, and grew up in the Ozarks of Arkansas. In 1956 his family moved to Southern California, where he lived until he was twenty years old. From 1964 to 1969 Minick attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a BA in History in 1969. While at UC Berkeley, Minick began an apprenticeship in photography at the ASUC Studio, a student arts facility on the UC campus. From 1965 to 1975, Minick worked on staff at the ASUC Studio, eventually becoming Director from 1971 to 1975.

It was at the ASUC Studio when Minick began his first photo project, a documentary project in black and white on the land and people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California. A resulting book, Delta West (Scrimshaw Press, 1969), an award-winning book which was listed as one of “Fifty Best Books of the Year” by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA, was published in 1970. Also in that same year, Life Magazine published an image from Delta West, titled “Cheng’s Hands, 1966ʺ.

For Minick’s next photo project on the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas begun in 1969, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. At the completion of this project a book resulted, titled Hills of Home (Scrimshaw Press, 1975; Ballantine Books, 1976), which was a collaboration with his father Bob Minick who wrote a text consisting of stories and remembrances from the Ozarks. Also included in the book were etchings and lithographs by photographer Leonard Sussman

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