Larry Angier

Larry Angier a native of Amador County, California, is a visual historian, photographer and graphic artist who travels rural America and Eastern Europe’s Balkan Region photographing people, places and the cultural landscape that portrays a sense of place. Beginning in his teens, he studied under Ansel Adams and his colleagues. His work covers more than six decades stretching over two centuries..

Larry’s photography is featured regularly in the Ledger-Dispatch, RANGE, VIA, and Nevada. The Amador Council of Tourism has featured his Amador County photographs since its inception in 2003. You can find his photographs on the walls of the Superior Court of Amador County, Jackson Rancheria Resort Hotel, The Hotel Sutter, Sutter Amador Hospital, and other local homes and businesses.

Recent books showcasing Larry’s work include The Magnificent American West (2018), Serbian Christian Heritage of America, Icons of Jackson’s St. Sava Church (2019), 125 years of Jackson’s Gem (2022), and Face to Face with the American West (2022).

His photography is in the collections of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, Bodie State Historic Park, the Museum of Northeastern Nevada, Elko, Nev., Father Junipero Serra Museum, Petra, Mallorca, Spain, several of the historic California Spanish-era Missions, the Olympus Camera Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, and the National Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade, Serbia.

He graphic design is featured in the exhibits and interpretive signage here at the Kennedy Mine Museum, and the Amador County Museum, 49/88 Vista Point in Jackson, Miners’ Bend Park and Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek and along the Plymouth, California, Main Street Stroll.

February 2023

Jackson, Calif.

Larry Angier