Lloyd Ziff

Since 2000, Lloyd Ziff has made photography the sole focus of his career. He has had one man shows in New York City at Danziger Gallery and Robin Rice Gallery, and Earl McGrath Gallery in Los Angeles. Ziff’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Palm Springs Art Museum, The International Center of Photography, New York, as well as having been published in many of the world’s most prestigious magazines including Blind Spot, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Interview, Kid’s Wear (Germany), LA-The Los Angeles Times Magazine, New York, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Wired. His books include Lloyd Ziff-New York/Los Angeles: Photographs 1967-2014, Near North-Photographs of Alaska and The Yukon, and his photographs have been included in Patti Smith’s autobiography, Just Kids, and the anthologies Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982, Masculine Masculine-L’Homme Nu dans L’Art de 1800 a Nos Jours, Mysterious Objects, Portraits of Joan Quinn, and The Spirit of Family, by Al and Tipper Gore. Before he became known as a photographer, Ziff was an award-winning art director/design director of many of America’s most prestigious magazines, including Vanity Fair, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveler, New West, and Rolling Stone. Ziff taught magazine design, photography, and illustration at Art Center College, Pasadena, California, The School of Visual Arts, New York City, and for 13 years at Parsons School of Design, New York City. In 1999, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, his alma mater (1967).