Jerry Burchard

Gerald "Jerry" Burchard (December 1, 1931 – May 17, 2011) was an American photographer, educator, and curator. He was a professor emeritus at San Francisco Art Institute.

Life and career Gerald "Jerry" Burchard was born on December 1, 1931, in Rochester, New York. His photo work was influenced by photojournalist Dorothea Lang.

In 1961, his photograph was removed from the Boston Arts Festival at the American Legion, for 'insulting' the American flag. Burchard started teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1966, and by 1969 he was the chair of the undergraduate photo department. the Art Institute of Chicago; the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California; Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; Princeton Art Museum in New Jersey; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Stanford University Libraries; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibitions

1985 – The Big Picture, University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio; including artists Jerry Burchard, Patrick Nagatani, Chris Enos, Sandi Fellman, Barbara Kasten, Rosamond Purcell, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, Robert Heinecken, Marsha Burns, Jack Welpott, Suda House, Luciano Franchi de Alfaro III, Frank Gillette, Olivia Parker, Vicki Lee Ragan, John Reuter, John Gutkowski, and Judith Golden