Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1940. Gradu-
ated from Arizona State University, Tempe, 1964. Stu-
died at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1965.
Graduated from San Francisco State College, now Uni-
versity, with an M.A. in 1968. Studied with Van Deren
Coke, Jack Welpott, Don Worth, Oliver Gagliani, Ruth
Bernhard, and Paul Caponigro. Founding member with
Jack Welpott, Judy Dater, and others of the Visual
Dialogue Foundation, 1968–1972. Taught at the Cali-
fornia College of Arts and Crafts, University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles, faculty at the University of
California at Los Angeles, California, 1972, and 1982;
U.C.L.A. Extension, 1973–1976 while also serving as the
Coordinator of Extension; Institute of the Arts, Valen-
cia, 1973; Pomona College, Claremont, 1973–1979; Tyler
School of Art, Philadelphia, 1976; University of South-
ern California, Los Angeles, 1980–1981 and the Univer-
sity of Hartford in Connecticut, 1981. In addition, he
was the curator of the Photography Gallery at Pomona
College from 1973–1979. Recipient: National Endow-
ment for the Arts grant, 1978; Guggenheim Photography
Fellowship, 1979–1980; and the James D. Phelan Award
in Photography, 1986.
Selected Individual Exhibitions
1972 Friends of Photography Gallery; Carmel, California
1973 Witkin Gallery; New York
1976 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester, New York
1977 The Photographic Work of Leland Rice; Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden; Washington, D.C.
Leland Rice: New Color Photographs; Witkin Gallery;
New York
1987 Leland Rice, Illusions and Allusions, Photographs of the
Berlin Wall; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Leland Rice: Photographs of the Berlin Wall; Balti-
more Museum of Art; Maryland
1990 Leland Rice: Graffiti from the Berlin Wall, A Photo-
graphic Memory; Kouros Gallery; New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1969 Vision and Expression; George Eastman House;
Rochester, New York
The Visual Dialogue Foundation, Center of the Visual Arts;
Oakland, California
1974 Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art; New York
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since
1960 ; Museum of Modern Art; New York
1981 The Whitney 1981 Biennial; Whitney Museum of
American Art; New York
1982 Color As Form: History of Color Photography; Cor-
coran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.
1984 Photography in California: 1945–1980; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco
1987 BERLINART 1961–1987; Museum of Modern Art;
New York
1987 Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles
1995 An American Century of Photography, From Dry-Plate
to Digital; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art; Kansas City
2000 The Visual Dialogue Foundation Revisited, 2000; J.J.
Brookings Gallery; San Francisco
2001 Capturing Light, Masterpieces of California Photogra-
phy, 1850–2000; Oakland Museum of California; Oak-
landSelected Works
Savoy Tivoli, 1968
Untitled (Woman on couch), 1969
White Door (Wall Site Series), 1973
Baroque Chair and Plank (Wall Site Series), 1973
Mirror, Glass and Rock, 1978
Blue Door, 1978–1979
Hunger Herr Pastor (Berlin Wall Series), 1986
Tic Tac Geist (Berlin Wall Series), 1987Further Reading
Hopkinson, Amanda, ed. Contemporary Photographers.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1995.
Rice, Leland. UpAgainst It, Photographs of the Berlin Wall
Essay by Charles E. McClelland. Albuquerque: Univer-
sity of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Witkin, Lee. D., and Barbara London.The Photography
Collector’s GuideBoston: New York Graphic Society,
1979.LENI RIEFENSTAHL
German
Leni Riefenstahl’s status as an ex-Nazi and confi-
dant to Hitler makes her one of the century’s most
controversial artists. She is praised and pilloried in
equal quantities, yet nobody disputes the quality of
her artistic vision; the argument lies in her choice of
subject matter. Riefenstahl is most renowned forRIEFENSTAHL, LENI