Reid Yalom
REID SAMUEL YALOM is a Northern California photographer whose work has been widely published and exhibited over a 30-year period. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Monterey (Middlebury) Institute of International Studies.
Published works:
One Foot in Romania: Editor Vellant, Bucharest. This is a series of color images taken over a 7-year period, as he explored cities and villages throughout the country with his Romanian wife, Loredana. The work exhibits a subtle change in image making as he progressed from an outsider to an adopted son of the country.
Colonial Noir: Images from Mexico, Stanford University Press 2004, a monograph of 72 duotones. A highly personal series of images that combine visual elements of Film Noir, Surrealism and attempts to capture the essence of Magical Realism.
The American Resting Place: A History of American Cemeteries with author Marilyn Yalom, Houghton Mifflin, 2008. This book has been called the definitive work on the history of American cemeteries from pre-columbian times to the present day.
In 2022 he contributed 25 photographs to the best-selling German edition of A Matter of Life and Death by Irv and Marilyn Yalom, Penguin/Random House, 2022.
Work in production:
The Professors’ Son, an autobiography in words and images with Agra Publications in Athens.
Release Date September 2025
Black Sea Report. Images of summer from the Romanian Black Sea Coastline, Editor Vellant
Pacific Dreamin’, Images of contemplation and frolicking along California’s coastline.
Other exhibition projects include works on Indonesia, Greece Vietnam, Quebec and Romania as well as the American West.
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