Name Robert Lindholm | Education University of Missouri | |
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Robert "Bob" Lindholm (born June 14, 1935) is a conservation photographer, attorney and outdoors enthusiast currently residing in Lindsborg, KS.
Lindholm grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He has a degree in radio and television production from the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. After he was in the U.S. Marine Corps he received a law degree from the University of Missouri in 1964. He is a distinguished alumnus. In 1986, the Sierra Club awarded him the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography.
His photographs have appeared in Outdoor America, Conservationist, Missouri Life, American Land Forum, and Outdoors Unlimited.
He served as an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri under John Ashcroft, where he did work for the Department of Natural Resources and the Clean Water Commission. Lindholm was also instrumental in the transformation of the MKT Railroad into the 200-mile KATY Trail. He retired from the Attorney General's Office in 1993 and turned to photography. Lindholm's photos are featured in his forthcoming book, co-authored with W. Raymond Wood, Karl Bodmer's America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time. The book compares Bodmer's early 19th-century American landscape paintings with Lindholm's photographs of the same locations.