Bill Aron, Photography
Bill Aron’s photographs have been exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the United States and Israel. His work has also appeared in a wide variety of publications and is found in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, The International Center for Photography, The Jewish Museum, The Chicago Art Institute, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Mississippi Museum of Art, The Skirball Cultural Center, The Museum of American Jewish History, The Israel Museum, in Jerusalem, and the Museum of the Diaspora, in Tel-Aviv.
Aron recently returned from Israel where he produced panoramas of Jerusalem involving stitching together as many as 25 images into one photograph. That work will be exhibited at the Pucker Gallery in Boston in 2012.
Bill Aron first gained international recognition for his photographs of Jewish communities around the world. His first book, From The Corners Of The Earth, chronicles the Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, and was published, with an introduction by Chaim Potok, by The Jewish Publication Society.
A second volume of his work, Shalom Y’all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South, with an introduction by Alfred Uhry was published by Algonquin Books.
Two more volumes of Aron’s work are in preparation: His current project, entitled Cancer’s Silver Lining, focuses on cancer survivors who have not let a diagnosis of cancer prevent them from living their lives to the fullest; in many cases, the diagnosis has served as an impetus to better their lives. Aron interviewed and created energetic portraits of a diverse group of 100 such survivors. The manuscript is finished and a publisher is being sought.
He also recently finished a manuscript entitled Holocaust Survivors: The Indestructible Spirit, with Chapman University and the 1939 Club, in Los Angeles, where he produced 100 photographs of Holocaust survivors in southern California. The images are on display at Chapman.
Bill lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons, where he is undoubtedly the only freelance photographer with a Ph.D. in sociology. More of his work and a more detailed résumé can be found on his web site, www.billaron.com.