Nationality American Alma mater Cornell University | Years active 1961-present | |
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Occupation Urological surgeon, University of California Los Angeles Emeritus Professor; Fine Art photographer Books 80 Recipes for Your Pressure, 80 Recipes for Your Halogen, Namibia: The Forbidde, The Green Kitchen: Techniqu, The Perfect‑‑: Food Not | ||
Richard M. Ehrlich is a surgeon and photographer. Born in New York City on March 12, 1938, he obtained a BA in 1959 from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He has been a professor and physician for over 40 years, and has been recognized as a fine art photographer. The New York Times said his photographs "suggest ephemerality from a broader historical perspective" and that they "look like staged fantasies".
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Career
In 1963, he obtained his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, with an internship and surgical residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center followed by a residency in urology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center from 1965-1969. He served as a Major in the United States Air Force from 1969-1971.
His held a research Fellowship at the National Institute of Health sponsored by Columbia University in 1966-67 and a Senior Research Fellowship in 1969. He was admitted as a Fellow to the American College of Surgeons in 1974.
Ehrlich held multiple teaching positions at the University of California School of Medicine from 1971, becoming a Professor Emeritus of Urology in 2012. He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Urology.
He served as President of both the Society for Pediatric Urology in 1991 and American Academy of Pediatrics-Urology Section in 1993, and was elected to membership in the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in l982.
Photography
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, 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.