Richard
Todd is a native of California who earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree in publication
design from California Institute of the Arts. He taught photography while working
on his degree. In his final year at Cal Arts Richard earned the prestigious LA Art
Director's Award for his now famous picture of a computer with an axe chopping it
in half expressing the sense of frustration that many early computer users experienced
every day of their lives. Richard worked as the senior photographer at Mattel Toys
for 5 years & UCLA's Museum of Cultural History for 9 years, when he started
photographing Tattoo Art for the book, "The Marks of Civilization," edited
by the late Arnold Ruben. While working on that project Richard was introduced to
the wonderful people at the prestige National Tattoo Association in 1986 where he
continues to donate his time at there national yearly convention. Richard Todd has
also been the senior photographer at International Tattoo Art Magazine from the time
it began in 1991until 2002. Richard Todd photography is a full service photographic
and stock agency. He is one of the most sought after photographers of art in the
United States and has traveled the world photographing art for some of this countries
most highly respected publishers, including Harry Abrams, Reader's Digest, Rizzoli,
Harcourt-Brace, Friedman Fairfax now Barnes & Noble publishers and the presses
of the Universities of California, New Mexico and Washington. His photographs are
in private and museum collections in Europe, America, Australia, and Japan. For more
information, please email Richard. |