Robert Rosen (born 1953) is an Australian fashion, social and fine art photographer.
Life and work
Born in South Africa, he emigrated with his family to Australia in 1960 and grew up in suburban Melbourne. After high school, he studied photography at the
Prahran College of Technology
The Prahran College of Advanced Education, formerly Prahran College of Technology, was a late-secondary and tertiary institution with a business school, a trade school, and a multi-disciplinary art school that dated back to the 1860s, populated ...
but dropped out after being pressured by a teacher to take a more commercial approach.
He moved to the Sydney suburb of
Kings Cross, where he unsuccessfully pursued work as a fashion photographer, before moving to London in 1975.
Rosen was active from the 1970s to the 2010s.
He retired to live in Bali.
Collections
Rosen's work is held in the Australian
National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
*National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
*National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London, with s ...
and the
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS) in Sydney, the others being the historic Sydney Observatory at Observatory Hill, and the newer Museums Discovery Centre at Castle Hill. Although often des ...
, Australia;
the latter holds an extensive archive of his work.
Books
* ''Siblings'' (1999)
* ''Glitterati: Shooting Fashion, Fame & Fortune'' (2018)
* ''Snap!: Twenty Years of Social Photography'' (2000)
References
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Fashion photographers
1953 births
Living people
20th-century Australian photographers
21st-century Australian photographers
South African emigrants to Australia