About

Rachel Youdelman's photographic books, the first of which she produced on a Gestetner mimeograph at California Institute of the Arts in 1972, are housed in a variety of major collections, including the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is a graduate of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts (BFA, 1973), where she was mentored by Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago. Youdelman also attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied post-war Polish poetry (in English translation) with Czesław Miłosz. She holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts (ALM, 2012) from Harvard University and has published papers on creativity, Victorian taxidermy, and Holocaust photography.

Photo by Sophie Youdelman, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1956. 

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