Neal Rantoul -

Neal Rantoul is a career artist and educator. He retired from 30 years as head of the Photo Program at Northeastern University in Boston. He taught at Harvard University for thirteen years as well.
nealrantoul.com
He now devotes his efforts full-time to making new work and bringing earlier work to a national and international audience, with over 60 one-person exhibitions over the length of his career.
Rantoul's work is extensively collected and is included in numerous permanent collections such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Princeton University Museum, the RI School of Design Museum of Art, Harvard University Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Boston Athenaeum, the Addison Gallery in Andover, MA, among others.
He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and residencies, including a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation grant, Light Work, Hambidge Center for the Arts, the Baer Art Center in Iceland, and was a Visiting Artist at ICP's Lake Como Workshop in Italy, among others.
Mr. Rantoul is the author of several books on his photographs; among those are Paradise, CA, American Series, Cabela's, A Year, Wheat, Collections, Rock Sand Water, and Above, aerial photographs of Martha's Vineyard. Recent books include Essays on Photography and the catalog called Monsters that accompanied the show called Wild Thing at 555 Gallery in Boston. His most recent book, "Paradise," photographs of the firestorm that destroyed the town in California, was published in 2020.
Mr Rantoul's work is represented by Insight Art Management.
He lives in Acton, MA.

[@clintwoosley9512]

Amazing series. Please don’t stop!

[@TheCritHouse]

We plan to go on for quite some time.

[@randomsixty]

This series of videos is excellent.

[@TheCritHouse]

Colin, thanks so much. We're learning a lot.

[@NirSharon]

Beautiful!

[@TheCritHouse]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@DanScott1]

Lee's scrubby pictures just worked, they had a balance and a feeling. Thanks Neal, enjoyed your work, had me thinking of Giacomelli and his shape and form lanscapes in Italy.

[@TheCritHouse]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@SlavaVeres]

OMG! ❤ Harry Callahan! This is true and phenomenal STREET PHOTOGRAPHY. Unlike those “people sitting in Starbucks” type snapshots we see today. And your guest himself - his photography is incredible. I wonder if he considers himself to be continuing New Topographics tradition? Richard Misrach somewhat falls in that category. He is one of my favourite contemporary photographers! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! It was a visual feast!

[@TheCritHouse]

I'm glad you like it. I don't know if Neal considers himself in the NT tradition. Perhaps he will chime in w a response