Peripheral strip photograph of Peter Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Born 1941 in Budapest, Hungary. Emigrated to Argentina 1947-1957. Emigrated to United States 1957-current
Professor in School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY

EXPERIENCE

1979-pre Professor (in 1986) Imaging and Photographic Technology Department of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, College of Graphic Arts and Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology. Department Chairman since 1989.

1976-79 Chairman of Photography (Assistant and Associate Professor) in the College of Continuing Education at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

1974-76 Director, Division of Arts and Graphic Arts, College of Continuing Education, Rochester Institute of Technology.

1970-74 Assistant Director, Division of Arts and Graphic Arts, College of Continuing Education, Rochester Institute of Technology.

1963-70 Research Photographer, Distillation Research Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Kenneth C.D. Hickman at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

I was the recipient of a 1988 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching at RIT and the 1990 Professor Raymond C. Bowman Award from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology for excellence in teaching. I was a NASA/ASEE Research Fellow in 1994 at NASA Langley Research Center, VA. and was the 1992 inaugural Kodak Visiting Professor to Australia. I was a guest instructor at The Institute for Photography of the University of Gothenberg in Sweden. I am a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.

I have published and lectured on a large variety of topics related to scientific photography but particularly those related to high speed photography and photographic instrumentation. I have conducted seminars, exhibited and was an invited speaker to conferences, workshops and seminars worldwide. I collaborated with Drs. Leslie Stroebel and Ronald Francis on an investigation for the House Select Committee on the assassination of President Kennedy and have been a consultant in photographic instrumentation for NASA and other industrial and governmental agencies.