John Veltri
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John Veltri is a photographer who was born in 1938 in California. He studied filmmaking and theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles College, and San Francisco State College (now University). He began work as an experimental filmmaker in San Francisco.
From 1965 to 1975, Veltri worked in New York City where he began to photograph architecture, creating an important visual record of the places and people of Manhattan (Canadian Centre for Architecture). He made photographic studies of a number of subjects, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and 37th Street.
By the mid-1970s he had returned to California where he has since devoted himself to cinema, making documentaries dealing with native cultures, and social and community issues.
Veltri is the author of several publications, including Statue of Liberty (1971), The Parthenon (1973), Architectural Photography (1974) and The Greeks (1984).
He is also noted for his underwater photography.
[edit] References
- Canadian Centre for Architecture. 'La 37e rue Ouest à Manhattan, photographiée par John Veltri entre le 13 et le 18 septembre 1966' (press release). Accessed 8 February 2007.
- Veltri, John. 'Architectural Photography' (Garden City, New York: American Photographic Book Publishing Co., 1974), back flap.
