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John Veltri is a photographer who was born in 1938 inCalifornia.[1]
Veltri studied filmmaking and theatre at thePasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts,Los Angeles City College,Warner Bros. Film Studio andSan Francisco State University. He began work as an experimental film maker in San Francisco.
From 1965 to 1975, Veltri worked in New York City where he began to photograph architecture, creating an important visual record of the places and people of Manhattan. He made photographic studies of a number of subjects, including the Statue of Liberty,Ellis Island,Jimi Hendrix'Electric Lady Studio, and New York's 37th Street, exhibited at theCanadian Centre for Architecture.[1] He also illustrated several books written by photographerAndreas Feininger.
By the mid-1970s he had returned to California where he has since devoted himself to cinema, making documentaries dealing withnative cultures, and social and community issues.
Veltri is the photographer for several publications, includingStatue of Liberty (Doubleday 1971),The Parthenon (Newsweek 1973),Architectural Photography (AMPHOTO 1974) andThe Greeks (Doubleday 1984).
Veltri is also noted for hisunderwater photography from his work as staff photographer on an archeological expedition that uncovered the oldest shipwreck, theKyrenia ship, off the north coast of Cyprus.
His recent documentary films in-production include "Seasons of the Soul", about American architectJohn M. Johansen, and "Walking Backwards into the Future", about Native AmericanKaruk Elder, Charles Thom Sr.
Veltri's photographs can be found in the collections of theMoMA, theEllis Island Museum of Immigration, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the library of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and other private collections.[1]
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