David Akiba

David Akiba follow American, born 1940

Lives in JAMAICA PLAIN, Massachusetts, United States

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Boston Ballet, fiftieth season, 2013-2014

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Received on Earth 2014

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not this not that 2013

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A Separate Journey 1974-2003

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Jane and Abby, 1998-2008

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Elevated Orange Line 1985-87

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mannequins 1969-74

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faces 1975

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Faces 1980-82

Flux 2012-13

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Light Struck 2001-05

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Bubbles 1977

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B&W landscapes1988-2005

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Light, Scattered/Shattered 1994-96

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David Akiba has been making photographs for 45 years. His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Library of Congress, the Fogg Art Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum the DeCordova Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Public Library and other public and private collections. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
Akiba lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with his wife Jane. He has six children; Daniel, Jonah, Rachel, Samuel, Isaac and Abigail. The oldest is 42, the youngest is 15. He has been a parent of young children since 1971, and has created a chronicle of his family life, consisting of 2,500 black and white photographs. Some have been exhibited under the title “A Separate Journey.”
In l985 Akiba won a MassProductions grant that allowed him to photograph for two years in Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace park system. It led to a solo exhibition of the photographs at the Photographic Resource Center in 1987. Also in 1985 he was selected to be one of five photographer who photographed the Elevated Orange Line between Forest Hills and downtown Boston before its planned demolition in l988.
He had a ten-year retrospective exhibition of his landscape photographs at the Rose Art Museum in 1992, and a major exhibition of his work covering almost thirty years at the Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library in 1998-99. A solo exhibition of his family photographs entitled “A Separate Journey” was exhibited In New York City at the 92nd Street Y in 2007. His “Light Struck” images were included in a group exhibition entitled “Luminous Form, Abstraction in Color Photography” at the DeCordova Museum in 2007. In 2012, forty of his winter landscape photographs were exhibited at the Milton Weill Gallery of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
He teaches photography at Emerson College and Babson College.