Biography of Brock Dean Palmer as a Photographer with Mini-Photo Album

It seems that I had an interest in photography while still an infant in a crib.
This photograph, original and not created through any photo manipulation, of
me as a baby, holding a photograph of my sister, Shelby, foretells of my long and deep passion for photography.

Photograph by father
Harry Palmer
circa April 1942

I began photographing at about the age of 4, learning from my father, Harry, to hold a camera and focus and release the shutter on a 35 mm Argus C1. Within two years, I was playing with a printing frame, 620 negatives and printing out paper, holding the printing frame to the sun and amazed as the images appeared.


in front of 1st Ocean Ave. home, New London, CT mother, Ceal; sister, Shelby; and me, Brock Photograph by father, Harry Palmer circa 1946	in front of 1st Ocean Ave. home, New London, CT mother, Ceal; cousins Margie and Stan; and me, Brock Photograph by father Harry Palmer circa 1947

At age 11, at summer camp, I began learning to develop film and make enlargements in a darkroom. At age 13, I won my first photo contest, an Ansco Scholastic Art Contest, with a photo taken that summer of '53 at Camp Monterey.


Stan Ocum, counselor, 1953 Camp Monterey, Monterey, MA	Friends pose for portrait, 1953 Camp Monterey, Monterey, MA	Bunk Mates, Howie, Jeff and Steve Camp Monterey, Monterey MA, 1953

During my 20’s, I won awards in many County Fairs and Outdoor Art Shows, including the Mystic Outdoor Arts Festival, one of the largest outdoor art shows in the North East, in which I was awarded 3rd place in Photography by photographer and educator, Harry Callahan.

In 1965, I received an AAS in Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.


Young woman models for portrait George Eastman House of Photography circa 1965	Window boarded, some reflecting sky and clouds, part of circle painted on building Adjacent to apt. near old RIT campus circa 1965	Archway and Columns Entrance to School of Art & Design RIT old Campus circa 1964

In the summers of 1964 and 1965, I studied with Minor White in (2)10 day workshops, receiving instruction in
the Zone System, Creative Photography and Alfred Steiglitz's realization of Equivalents, "one of the major innovations
of American photographic practice."— a symbolic aesthetic which procedes from the openness to the embodiment that "...objective records of reality could express subjective feelings."


Millbrook, NY, Zone System Practice Summer 1964	Arlington Workshop, Essence Summer 1965	Arllington Workshop, Essence Summer 1965

In 1978, I received a BFA with honors in Photography from University of the Arts, formerly Philadelphia College of Art. Those 3 years at Philadelphia College of Art were some of the richest with photographic experience and the love of art and the freedom of self expression within a community of others with a love of art and a goal of self expression.


Three Nudes, Walnut St. Apartment Philadelphia, circa 1978	Another, Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia, circa 1977	Architecture Philadelphia, circa 1976

Architecture Philadelphia, PA circa 1976	Architecture Philadelphia, PA circa 1978	Christine Philadelphia, PA circa 1978

During 1969, '70 and '79, I worked as a Photographic Assistant in Advertising, Industrial, and Fashion Photography studios in CT (Robin Perry Studios), NYC, and in LA.

I have been published in Newsweek and Time Magazines, national and international textbooks, Woodstock Times, Napa Valley Register, and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers, various book jackets, and most recently on the web at various web sites.


Woodstock Times Calligraphy by Sharon Roos Art Direction by Brock circa 1970	Woodstock Times Newspaper circa 1970

Fur Balloon Family logo Calligraphy by Sharon Roos Design Brock December 1970	Outdoor Signage by Sharon, Brenda & Brock 1970

Uptown Theater sign installation Napa Valley Register, front page Nov. 2001

My favorite subjects are nature, landscapes, seascapes, panoramas, flowers, architecture, abstractions, and portraits.


Sharon at the Cloister, NYC circa 1969	Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic City, NJ circa 1977	Manifestation in Clouds Air space, LA to SFO circa 1980

Who am I California shore circa 1993	Portrait of Christine and Brock Philadelphia, PA Circa 1977	Pastel Portrait of Brock by Brock circa 1986

Pastel Portrait of Brock by Brock circa 1986	Equivalent in Hollyhock Rochester, NY circa 1966	Pastel Portrait of Brock by Brock circa 1986

Vibrations Woodstock, NY circa 1971	Equivalent in Roses Napa, CA circa 2005	Portrait of Man NYC circa 1969

Salmon River Lodge, Salmon River, Stanley, Idaho circa 2000

Intercoastal Waterway, Florida View Facing South from Bridge circa 1999

I have been doing digital photography using a digital camera and PhotoShop since about 1992.