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Philip Perkis
American, 1935–2025
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Philip Perkis was an American photographer whose work is held in major institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. A Guggenheim Fellow, he developed a practice grounded in direct observation and the formal possibilities of black-and-white photography. His photographs engage with vernacular American subjects and urban landscapes, approached with precise compositional control and tonal subtlety.
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