Jeff Brouws
American, born 1955, San Francisco, Calif.
Born in San Francisco in 1955, Brouws is a self-taught photographer. His work is held in major museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; The Nelsen-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Fogg Museum, Cambridge; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton. Brouws has had over 25 one-person exhibitions since 1980, and has been included in numerous exhibitions including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (2016), Brandhorst Museum (2013), Princeton University Art Museum (2011), Nevada Museum of Art (2011), San Jose Museum of Art (2009), Williams College Art Museum (2003), Norsk Museum of Photography in Norway (2002), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2000). Published monographs include Approaching Nowhere (W.W. Norton and Company, 2006); Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts (Chronicle Books, 2003); Inside the Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World of the Carnival Midway (Chronicle Books, 2001); Highway: America’s Endless Dream (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997); and Twenty-six Abandoned Gasoline Stations (Gas-N-Go Publications, 1992).
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American, born Switzerland. Born April 25, 1907, Engelberg, Swit, 1907 - 1984