Frank Barsotti, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrank Barsotti
American photographer
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1937
Date of Death: 06-Jun-2012
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Frank Barsotti
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- "Frank" Barsotti (November 20, 1937, - June 6, 2012) was an American photographer.
- Youngest of three children, he was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area by Italian immigrant parents.
- Italy, where he returned often, was a common theme through much of his work, such as the series Italy 1974 and White.His noted series Artigiano consists of photographs of tools hand-made by his father.Though trained in traditional black-and-white photography, Franco embraced digital technology and was one of the earliest professors to work with digital photography.Franco received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
- He attended the graduate program in photography at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also taught for 38 years. The following is an excerpt from a statement from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago upon Frank Barsotti's death on June 6, 2012: While teaching at the SAIC, Frank completed his MFA (1969), and a suite of his black-and-white photographs from this period are in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Along with Professor Fred Endsley, Frank was one of the first faculty members to experiment with digital technology.
- He was an intrepid maker, and early on, championed alternative and non-silver processes, and what was then considered radical digital processes.
- Frank was a passionate and dedicated teacher, unafraid to deliver forceful opinions on art and education.
- He believed strongly in the art school process of dialogue, experimentation, and critique, and this legacy endures in his department and beyond. Though living in Washington State for the [last] 10 years [of his life], Frank was born and raised in Chicago's historic Pullman area and spent the majority of his life in and dedicated to Chicago.
- He taught alongside luminaries including Joyce Niemanas, Barbara Crane, and Ken Josephson, and during his years at SAIC taught nearly 2,000 students.
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