RICH REMSBERG
Eclipse Mill #105 • 243 Union Street • North Adams, MA 01247 • 413.664.4516 • rich@remsbergphoto.com • www.remsbergphoto.com

EDUCATION

Indiana University
B.A., History and Geography (concentrations in Museum Studies and Cartography), 1989


INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS

Santa Fe Photo Workshop
Photoshop for Photographers (with Rob Sheppard) 1999

Maine Photographic Workshop
Street Photography (with Constantine Manos), 1995

 

WORK HISTORY

FREELANCE FILM & PHOTO RESEARCHER
2000-present
Responsibilities include researching and locating film footage and still photographs, clearing rights, compiling resources surveys, digital restoration, and creative consulting. Also vintage music, historical research, subject identification and contact, etc. Work primarily on PBS documentaries.

FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
1993-present; www.remsbergphoto.com
Credits include The New York Times, Newsweek/MSNBC, Christian Science Monitor, PBS, and No Depression. Taught on the faculty of the American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) field school.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM/PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT, Bloomington, Indiana; www.dlib.indiana.edu
Visual Resources Specialist, 1999-2000
Worked as part of a team to present materials from the Library and other University holdings on the Internet and via other digital media. Responsibilities included identifying appropriate collections; planning projects; writing grants and proposals; addressing technical concerns for visual materials; making preservation recommendations to collections managers, and supervising the Brittle Books Scanning Program.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Bloomington, Indiana
Photographic Support Coordinator, 1993-1999
Responsibilities included providing an educational and professional lab and studio environment, conversion to electronic darkroom, maintaining equipment, training and supervision of lab staff, offering classroom and individual instruction, and overseeing inventory of materials and supplies in response to the needs of the Photojournalism and Visual Communication curriculum, faculty, and students.

CAVEAT EMPTOR USED BOOKS, Bloomington, Indiana
Assistant Manager, 1988-1993
Responsibilities included selecting and purchasing books, assisting customers, inventory control, and conducting out-of-print book searches.

MAJOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECTS

COLOR FILM AND CURIOSITY: CHARLES CUSHMAN IN CONTEXT (commissioned essay for Indiana University's Digital Library Project on amateur early color photographer Charles Cushman), 2003. http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/overview/cushmanContext.jsp

INDIANA COUNTY FAIRS DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
(pilot project with exhibit, archival, and Web components), Traditional Arts Indiana & Indiana Historical Society, 2002-2003. See informal gallery at: www.remsbergphoto.com/lakecounty

COMMON PICTURES: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE EYES OF FOUND PHOTOGRAPHY (forthcoming, currently being developed by PBS).

RIDERS FOR GOD: THE STORY OF A CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLE GANG (University of Illinois Press, 2000), 263 pages. Reviewed positively in The New Yorker, DoubleTake, Christian Century, Killing the Buddha, Religious Studies Review, Sojourners, etc.; cited as a noteworthy book by the Center for Studies on New Religions.

HEARTLAND DOCUMENTARY PROJECT (exhibition and archival collection, Indiana Historical Society), 1998-2000.

A PARTICULAR FARM (solo exhibition, The Peace Museum, Chicago), 1994-1995.