Beginning as a Layout Designer then as Art Director in Advertising Production I later switched to Graphic Design in the field of Packaging and Corporate Identification where I hired and worked with many leading photographers in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles from which I learned a great deal. My later influences in photography were Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Doisneau. I graduated from Hofstra University in New York, New York University Film School Workshop, Art Center College of Design in California and Boston College. I have taught design at USC and Film & Video at UCLA in California and Art Center (Europe). I have been married to the same woman for 57 years and travel to Paris each year having once lived there. My latest and most recent award came quite unexpectedly. I was awarded an Artist-in-Residency by the Academie des Beaux-Artes and Pour Que L'Espree Vive in Paris. But turned it down because of personal reasons. It gave someone else a chance. GWG
