Howard Schatz (born 1940) is an American photographer, who previously had a career as an ophthalmologist.
Life and work
Ophthalmology
Schatz began his professional life in medicine. He completed his medical degree at
The University of Illinois College of Medicine
The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and formerly Urbana–Champaign. The Urbana–Champaign site stopped accepting n ...
, followed by an internship at
Cook County Hospital
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in Chicago, ophthalmology
residency
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at
The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary
The Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary (IEEI) is a center of ophthalmology and otolaryngology research and clinical practice.
Located in the Illinois Medical District, the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary is the major referral center in the Chicago met ...
, and
fellowship
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in vitreoretinal diseases at
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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.
Schatz had a private practice in San Francisco from 1970 to 1995.
He was a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the
University of California, San Francisco
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,
and a retina specialist.
Photography
His work has included nudes and portraits of a range of people including athletes, actors, and the homeless.
Personal life
Schatz is married to Beverly Ornstein, the former head of Current Affairs at PBS television station, KQED, in San Francisco; she is currently executive producer for Schatz Ornstein Studio.
They live and work in Connecticut and New York.
Publications
As Howard Schatz and Beverly Ornstein
*1992: ''Gifted Woman''
*1993: ''Seeing Red: The Rapture of Redheads''
*1994: ''Homeless: Portraits of Americans in Hard Times''
*1995: ''Newborn''
*1995: ''WaterDance''
*1996: ''The Princess of the Spring and the Queen of the Sea''
*1996: ''BodyType''
*1997: ''Passion & Line''
*1998: ''Pool Light''
*2000: ''Bodyknots''
*2000: ''NudeBodyNude''
*2002: ''Rare Creatures''
*2002: ''Athlete''
*2005: ''Botanica''
*2006: ''In Character: Actors Acting''. Bulfinch. . With a foreword by
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
.
*2007: ''H2O''
*2011: ''With Child''
*2012: ''At The Fights''
*2013: ''Caught In The Act: Actors Acting''
*2015: ''Schatz Images: 25 Years''
*2018: ''Kink''. New York: Lawrence Richard. .
With others
*1996: ''Virtuoso.'' 1996. By Ken Carbone with photographs by Schatz.
References
External links
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Select works at Gallery M
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1940 births
Living people
American ophthalmologists
Photographers from New York (state)
Underwater photographers
Date of birth missing (living people)