Mark citret biography

Mark Citret was.
He was born on May 20, 1908, in Hale, Cheshire, England, and began his career as a photographer in the 1930s, working for magazines such as National Geographic.
Born March, 1949, in Buffalo N.Y. Family moved to San Francisco in 1950.

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Mark Citret

Mark Citret was born in 1949 in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in San Francisco. He began photographing seriously in 1968 and received both his BA and MA in Art from San Francisco State University.

Most of Citret's work is not specific to any locale or subject matter. Still, he has worked on many photographic projects over the course of his career and continues to do so. From 1973 to 1975 he lived in and photographed Halcott Center, a farming valley in New York's Catskill Mountains. In the mid to late 1980s, he produced a large body of work with the working title of "Unnatural Wonders", which is his personal survey of architecture in the national parks. He spent four years, 1990 to 1993, photographing "Coastside Plant", a massive construction site in the southwest corner of San Francisco. Since he moved to his current home in 1986, he has been photographing the ever-changing play of ocean and sky from the cliff behind his house. Currently, he is in the midst of a multi-year commission from the University of California San Francisco, photographing the construction o

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Mark Citret

(AMERICAN, b. 1949)

Mark Citret has always been intrigued by the everyday wonders of the visual world. The sense of expansive awareness that for Citret is a prerequisite to photography enables him to capture the small everyday flashes of insight that come when we are open to them and often go before we can fully grasp or appreciate them. Sights that most of us tend not to notice—a weathered phone book, an empty bulletin board, a twisted chain link fence—seem full of meaning, made spectacular and somehow poignant through his eye. Citret’s images are a sort of meditation in seeing; though they rarely contain human forms, they are powerful testaments to the relationship between human presence and transitory nature. Fascinated from his earliest work with the delicate nuances possible in black and white, his work with vellum paper allows him to convey the ideas of softer ranges in his work. Luminous and warm, the vellums heighten the sense of everyday epiphany found in his images.

Chrysler, Towns End Street, 1981

Walnut Tree, Sutter Basin, 2003

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Résumé

Born March, 1949, in Buffalo N.Y. Family moved to San Francisco in 1950.
Graduated from Lick-Wilmerding H.S.
1969: Attended Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite
1970-1973: Assisted Adams and workshop staff at numerous Yosemite workshops during this span. Worked with Adams in the field and darkroom, as well as help with workshop logistics and instruction.
1973: Graduated Cum Laude from San Francisco State with a degree in Art and minor in Geology. Also studied with Ruth Bernhard through UC Extension.
1973: Taught Photography at Urban School, San Francisco
1973: Moved to Halcott Center, New York, a small farm valley in the Catskill Mtns.
For two years photographed extensively for a book of photographs of Halcott. Book completed in 1976, with an introduction by Ansel Adams (published in May, 2004).
1975: Returned to SF and began working as a freelance photographer.
Published Halcott Center; Twelve Photographs, a portfolio of original prints. Edition limited to 55 sets.
1977: Taught photography at Merced Community College, in California’s San Joaquin Va