Richard Ehrlich

Ehrlich is a professional fine art photographer whose photographs are held in permanent collections of multiple museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, The George Eastman House, Denver Art Museum, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others.

His Holocaust Archives Series consists of photographs taken of the records of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany, an archival center that houses sources for identifying and tracing the victims of the Holocaust. He was the first to gain permission to photograph these archives.

This series is held in the permanent collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, The Jewish Museum in New York City, The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, Charles E. Young Research Library at University of California, Los Angeles, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca.

The series was shown at the Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008, University at Buffalo, New York in 2009, and UCLA in 2010, and was the subject of an LA Times article. As a photographer, he has published four books, named Namibia: The Forbidden Zone, Anatomia Digitale, The Other Side of the Sky,[10] and Reverie, while his fifth project, Face the Music published by Steidl in September 2015. It consists of 41 musicians portrayed listening to music of their choice. The project's intention is fundraising for autism research.

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