Laurence Bach
laurencebach@comcast.net

University of the Arts Graphic Design Department


Education 1969-1970
Allgemeine Gewerbeschule/Basel Switzerland
Graduate Program

1964-1968
The Philadelphia College of Art
BFA/Photography


Employment 1986- present
University of the Arts/Philadelphia
Professor and Former Chairman of the Graphic Design Department

1974-1986
State University of New York/ College at Purchase
Professor and Former Chairman of the Graphic Design Department

1970-1972
Moore College of Art

1970-1972 (summers until 1985)
Aegean School of Fine Arts/Paros Greece


Exhibitions Zygos Gallery/Washington DC

Dolan Maxwell Gallery/Philadelphia

Laurence Miller Gallery/New York

Marian Locks Gallery/Philadelphia

Weslyan University/Connecticut

The Photographic Center of Athens

Robert Samuel Gallery/New York

The Photography Gallery/Philadelphia

Modernism Gallery/San Francisco

The Photographers Gallery/London

The Neuberger Museum/new York


Grants New York State Council on the Arts
in collaboration with the Visual Studies Workshop/Rochester, NY

Polaroid Corporation

National Endowment for the Arts

Faculty Research Fellowship/SUNY College at Purchase


Publications Princeton University Art Museum, Photography Collection, 2005.

Seducing the Senses: Spa Visions of a Bon Vivant, Brioni Publications, 2004.

The Columns, Vol.3, No.1, 1987. 'Interview', p.8.

Sozanski, Edward. On Galleries, 'Review', February 5. 1987. p.5-D.

Marincola, Paula. 'Review' Art Forum, April 1987. p.133.

Photographic Annual 1986, 'Portfolio:Laurence Bach', pp. 64-69.

Perloff, Stephen. 'Island of Dreams, Laurence Bach', The Photo Review, 1984, pp.1-3.

Bonnell, Bill. 'New Wave in Graphic Design', Graphis 229, 1984, pp.48-49.

Marincola, Paula. 'Review' New Art Examiner, January 1984, p. 15.

Meinwald, Dannelt. 'Making Book' Camera Arts, July 1983, pp. 11-12.

The Paros Dream Book, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983.

Gartside, Thomas. 'Philadelphia Photographers', New Art Examiner, 1982, pp10-11.

'Photographic Concepts: Lauence Bach', TM/communications, Switzerland, #17, 1982, pp 2-23.

Edwards, Owen. 'Laurence Bach/Portfolio', Close-up (Polaroid), January 1982, pp 13-17.

Ernst, Don. 'Laurence Bach: Pieces from Paros', Fotografia, Greece, September 1981, pp.32-39.

Edwards, Owen. 'Laurence Bach:Portfolio', American Photographer, September 1981, pp.74-79.

Ernst, Don. 'Laurence Bach: Paros Shards', Aperture 82, February 1979, pp. 66-75.

The Paros Dream Book Catalogue, The Neuberger Museum, New York, September 1978.

Jarmusch, Ann. 'Laurence Bach's Paros Dream Book', Afterimage, December 1977, pp.16-17.

Jarmusch, Ann. 'Review', Art News, April 1977, p.91.

Stapp, William. Three Centuries of American Art Catalugue, April 1976, pp. 616-617.

Photographic Concepts:Laurence Bach, TM/communications, Switzerland, 1974, pp. 1-3.

'Sequence', Camera Magazine, February 1971, p.38.

The Art of Photography, Time-Life Books, 1972, p.151.

Frontiers of Photography, Time-Life Books, 1972, pp. 82-83.