David Salomon is an author and photographer living in
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
, Texas, US. Salomon is from Israel, and served in the
Golani Brigade
The 1st "Golani" Brigade ( he, חֲטִיבַת גּוֹלָנִי) is an Israeli military infantry brigade that is subordinated to the 36th Division and traditionally associated with the Northern Command. It is one of the five infantry brigade ...
in the
IDF
IDF or idf may refer to:
Defence forces
* Irish Defence Forces
* Israel Defense Forces
*Iceland Defense Force, of the US Armed Forces, 1951-2006
* Indian Defence Force, a part-time force, 1917
Organizations
* Israeli Diving Federation
* Interac ...
from 1970 to 1974.
In 1974 Salomon moved to Brooklyn, New York.
Brown Books Publishing Group published Salomon's ''Penguin-Pedia: Photographs and Facts from One Man's Search for the Penguins of the World'' in 2011. ''Penguin-Pedia'' pairs research on all seventeen penguin species with Salomon's own photographs of each species in the wild.
In 2014 Salomon published ''Igor Samsonov: Painter and Passionate Visionary'', a monograph of the Russian painter
Igor Samsonov.
Random House
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published a book written by Salomon in the fall of 2017. The book is titled ''Penguins!'' and is part of their Step into Reading series for children.
In 2019, Random House published a second children's book by Salomon titled "Baby Panda Goes Wild!"
David Salomon opened an
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
in Dallas, Texas named O.R.D.A. Gallery in February 2017.
In September 2019, the
Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas)
The Museum of Biblical Art (MBA) in Dallas, Texas, USA, exhibits art with a Biblical theme.
History
The museum was founded in 1967 by Mattie Caruth Byrd. It was formerly known as the Biblical Arts Center. In 2005, a fire destroyed the museum and ...
hosted an exhibit of photos by Salomon showcasing Israeli national parks.
Salomon's showing was next to an
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...
exhibit.
References
External links
O.R.D.A. GalleryPenguin-Pedia
Living people
American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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