Robert Giard
American artist (1939–2002)
Robert Giard (July 22, 1939 – July 16, 2002) was an American portrait, landscape, and figure photographer.
Early life
Giard was a native of Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in a working-class household. He majored in English literature and received a B.A. from Yale University in 1961, then an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Boston University in 1965. For a time, he taught intermediate grades at the New Lincoln School.
Career
By 1972, he began as a photographer, concentrating on landscapes of the South Fork of Long Island, portraits of friends, many of them artists and writers in the region, and the nude figure. In the beginning years of his career, Giard did much of his landscape photography during the late autumn, winter, and early spring when many of the fashionable houses of the Hamptons were boarded up for the season.
Giard continued photographing nudes, still lives, and landscapes throughout the rest of his career. The vast majority of Giard's photography was on black-and-white film. He used a twin-lens reflex Rolleicord camera on a tripod and did not use artificial lights. By the late 1970s, he started to teach photography at Southampton Community College.
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