Gene Anthony

Gene Anthony studied photography under the tutelage of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late fifties. His professional career spans forty years. It began at Black Star, the New York photo agency, where Anthony worked on journalistic, architectural, and adverting photo assignments for major advertising agencies. He also did work for many publications including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, Playboy, Saturday Evening...See more

Gene Anthony studied photography under the tutelage of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late fifties. His professional career spans forty years. It began at Black Star, the New York photo agency, where Anthony worked on journalistic, architectural, and adverting photo assignments for major advertising agencies. He also did work for many publications including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, Playboy, Saturday Evening Post, Geo, and Paris Match among others. His work is part of the permanent collections in numerous museums including the Oakland Museum and the Smithsonian Institute. In recent years, Anthony has focused on video, film, and books. His book The Summer of Love is the story line for a prototype 53-minute multi-image video program designed for college and museum venues. His most recent photo assignment was photographing former president of the Hell's Angels, Ralph "Sonny" Barger, for RollingStone. See less