Dennis Feldman is an american photographer and screen writer.

© 2026 Dennis Feldman. All images are the property of the artist and may not be reproduced without permission. All rights reserved.

Bio

Dennis Feldman studied photography at Harvard College where he was introduced to the work of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Fredrick Sommer. All of who were to become his mentors. He attended the Yale School of Art and Architecture, where Walker Evans was one of his professors.

In 1974 and 75, he traveled for eleven months to 49 of the 50 United States to photograph for the book AMERICAN IMAGES. AMERICAN IMAGES was chosen one of the ten best photo books of 1977 by the New York Times.

He has taught Photography and the History of Photography at Boston University, San Francisco City College, and UCLA. He has lectured in the Language of Photography at Harvard and Deer Island Penitentiary.

His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The Berkeley Museum of Art, and The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.

Press

How Strangers Posed for the Camera in 1960s and ’70s Hollywood, Slate
The wannabe rockers and mustachioed dandies of Dennis Feldman's Hollywood Boulevard, LA Times
The Psychedelic Free Spirits of Hollywood Boulevard, Vanity Fair
Jesse Pearson on 'Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera' & 'Dennis Feldman: Hollywood Boulevard', Artbook
You’ve Never Seen Hollywood Like This Before, Refinery 29

Contact

For print sales and exhibition inquiries, please contact dennisjfeldman@gmail.com

American Images: Part 1

American Images: Part 1 1974

The past is not dead. It is not even past. —William Faulkner
Things are not seen because they are visible, they are visible because they are seen.
The obvious is obviously fantastic.
1966Family 1968Downtown 1968Interiors 1968TVs 1969Hollywood Boulevard 1970Cuchillo 1972Boston 1972Japan 1974American Images: Part 1 1974American Images: Part 2 1978Looking at the Stars 1980Industrial Sex 1985Varanasi, India 200626 Cities After Max Beckman 2013Adam & Eve in the 21st Century 2013Construction Fence 2026Self Portraits 2026Water ISBNBooks
© 2026 Dennis Feldman. All images are the property of the artist and may not be reproduced without permission.