Douglas Busch (born 1951) is an American photographer, inventor, teacher, and architectural designer known for his large-scale negatives and cameras producing some of the world's largest "photographic Contact prints." His work encompassed an array of subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, portraits, and color work with the wave series "Silent Waves." Busch's architectural work has been published around the world along with his drought tolerant landscape designs. He has developed healthy housing systems and vertical herb and vegetable production systems.
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Early life and education
Busch was born in Miami Beach, Florida to Jewish parents William Goldworn and Enid Gottlieb Goldworn. They divorced when he was 1 year old. His mother remarried Dr. Donald Busch who adopted Douglas and they moved to Rockford, Illinois where he finished Bloom grade school, Lincoln junior high, and Guilford high school. He was on the High School newspaper staff as a photographer his junior and senior years. He grew up with a sister and a brother. Busch enrolled at the University of Illinois and majored in Cinematography, Photography, and Graphic Design. He took part in the newly created Independent Study program at the University. He was president of the photo-cine co-op.
Maps Douglas Isaac Busch
Career
Upon graduation Busch moved to Carmel, California where he worked as an assistant to Morley Baer. He assisted Ansel Adams on Portfolio VI washing prints and published his first portfolio in 1974-Portfolio I.He assisted his mentor, Al Weber on workshops throughout the Four Corners area. He moved to New York after marrying Marcia Chimberoff in Chicago in 1974. Busch took a job with Finlay Departments, a division of Seligman and Latz. He worked in the diamond department and then was promoted to assistant to the Fine Jewelry Department before the placed him in the Globe Store, Scranton, Pennsylvania, running the leased fine jewelry department. He received his diamond degree from the Gemological Institute of America, and later moved back to Rockford, Illinois to work in the family jewelry business, Busch Jewelers.
After the birth of their two children, in 1984 Busch separated from his wife Marcia and divorced soon after. Busch left the jewelry business to pursue his photography. He started the Golden Busch inc., a design and manufacturing company of SuperLarge(TM) cameras, lenses, film holders, print washers, and accessories.
Busch worked on many different photographic series within the next 8 years. He taught at the Victor School in Victor, CO for Al Weber and produced the Victor Portfolio of ten 12x20" photographic contact prints. He produced the Denver Portfolio, the North Central IL Portfolio and show at the Rockford Art Museum, Fallen Angels Project and show at 510 E. State Street Gallery.
Busch returned to the University of Illinois and spent a year in postgraduate study photography. He produced the Farmlands Project during this time. In 1992 Busch produced his first book-"In Plain Sight" and received the best book of the year from a small publisher award. During this time Busch was traveling through the USA and Europe doing visiting artist programs, teaching workshops, and lecturing.
Busch and his wife Lori started the No-Strings Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) grant-making organization is based in Malibu, CA in May 2005. Its primary mission was to award monetary grants to individual photographers within the United States. Photographers whose work in the past and current works need to be recognized and supported.
Busch began to design and build houses at this time. He has completed over 30 projects to date, some of which have been published around the world. In 2009 he started ecoTECH Design Studio to design and build sustainable architecture and landscapes, to educate the public through the creation of ecoPARK, and design and build sustainable low carbon products to reduce waste and grow food.
In 2011 he started pH Living to produce healthy housing. Working with Lawrence Gust, a certified building biologist and Chairman of the Board of bau-Biologie and Ecology USA he developed a healthy housing system to help the Chemically Sensitive Community and as a healthier alternative for people in general. He spoke at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's International Ninth Annual Forum of the In2:InThinking Network in April of 2010 on the importance of saving our planet for our children and future generations.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2012 Santa Barbara Museum of Art "Scene on the Street"
- 2010 "Water", Gallery 169, Santa Monica, CA
- 2009 Museum der stadt Dresden, Germany date postponed to 2013
- 2008 Deutscher Internisten Kongress, Wetzler, Germany
- 2007 Lumas Gallery, Berlin, Germany September 2007
- 2006 Art Moscow, Russia May 2006
- Silent Waves: Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany May 2006
- Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles
- Vestiges: Vertretung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz und der Europaischen Union, Berlin, Germany December 2006
- Vestiges: Mainz Museum, Germany December 2006
- Italian Gardens: Museum fuer Europaische Gartenbaukunst, D?sseldorf, Germany, May 2006 A book will accompany the traveling show
- Vestiges: Landes Museum Koblenz, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Germany April 2006
- 2005 Hack Museum, Retrospective Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Vestiges: Maison de l'Archéologie, Niederbronn-les-Bains, France October 2005
- Vestiges Buró Trifels, Annweiler am Trifels, Germany September 2005
- Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles
- 2000 Focus Gallery, Carmel, CA
- 1999 Mannheim City Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
- Group V, Braunfeld, Germany
- 1998 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
- Group V, Braunfeld, Germany
- 1997 Photo Classics Gallery, Munich, Germany
- Lotus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
- 1996 451 Gallery, Rockford, IL
- Borrone Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
- 1995 Fact Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
- Linderman Gallery, Germany
- 1994 G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- X-ibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1992 Steven Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1991 Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1990 Art Services, San Francisco, CA
- X-ibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1989 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
- City Hall, Rockford, IL
- Weiss-Morris Gallery, Rockford, IL
- Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
- 1988 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
- Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
- Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
- Union League Club, Chicago, IL
- JR. Kortman Gallery, Rockford, IL
- 1987 Ida Public Library, Belvidere, IL
- Denver Chamber of Commerce, Denver, CO
- United Banks of Colorado, Denver, CO
- 1986 Florissant Valley College, St. Louis, MO
- Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO
- Fermilabs, Chicago, IL
- A-Space Gallery, Madison, WI
- University of Maine, Portland, ME
- 1985 Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
- Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI
- 1984 Tracy Felix Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
- Victor School of Photography, Victor, CO
Books
- 2012 Scene on the Street; Nazraeli Press book for Santa Barbara Museum of Art Exhibition
- 2009 Appropriated Berlin, Limited Edition of 10 (original photographs) & stand
- 2008 Silent Waves, Limited Edition of 10 (original photographs) and Custom Stand
- 2007 Silent Waves-Limited Edition-The Photo Department, Malibu, CA
- California Gardens-Wade Publishing, London England
- Cruising Miami, Braus Editions, Germany & Paper Mirror Press, Chicago, IL
- Vestiges, Braus Editions, Germany & Paper Mirror Press, Chicago, IL
- Flesh as Canvas, Braus Editions, Germany & Paper Mirror Press, Chicago, IL
- Fallen Angels, Braus Editions, Germany & Paper Mirror Press, Chicago, IL
- Self Subject, Braus Editions, Germany & Paper Mirror Press, Chicago, IL
- 2006 Italian Gardens-Braus Editions, Germany
- 2005 Retrospective From Miami to Malibu-Braus Editions, Germany
- Vestiges-Douglas Busch-144 pages, 52 photographs in Duotone, 30 x 30 cm, Stuttgart 2005,
- Hardcover, English/French/German, ISBN 3-89506-252-9
- 1994 Tides in Time-The Photo Department, Santa Monica, CA
- 1992 In Plain Sight-The Photo Department, Rockford, IL
References
External links
- Official website
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