ID or Ego

Born Detroit, Michigan 1926
Father born in Austria, 1888
Mother born in Russia, 1889


Detroit, 1942
Orphaned 1980

Herzliya, 1981

Married Atty de Vries
San Francisco City Hall, 1966

Education

High School, Detroit

Highland Park High, 1943

US Army Air Corps

Awaiting flight training, I attended a photo school, and became an instructor.
Wayne Univ., Detroit

Wayne University, 1948-51 (I lived in Webster Hall part of the time.)
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley

BA Math, 1956
Ecole des Langues Orientales, Paris

Russian Language
United Bicycle Inst., Oregon

Bicycle Maintenance, 1988
Univ. of Oregon

BFA, Photography, 1994
Foreign Languages:
     Nederlands, Français, Deutsch, Русский

Programming Languages:
     Fortran,  C,  Z80 Assembly,  HTML

Politics

I am a born and bred liberal
Father: FDR Democrat;   Mother: Golda Meir Labor Zionist

Work Experience

Newspaper Boy

Liberty Magazine, 1935
Like Warren Bufett, I started with selling the
Liberty Magazine, but we ended up differently.



The Detroit News, 1938-40




Besides papers for my route, I sold extra editions on the street.


Chemist

W.P. Fuller Paints, So. San Francisco, 1952-3

Programmer


From Abacus to One Laptop per Second Childhood

Via Real-Time Systems, Military Computers, and IBM Mainframes


North American Aviation / Autonetics, Los Angeles and Anaheim 1956-59


Euratom, Petten, 1984                     Shell Oil, Rijswijk, 1985-86


GTS-GRAL GmbH, Darmstadt, 1987-89


International Marketing







Amsterdam, 1963           Sweden, 1966          Moscow, 1969           Greece, 1979   



Eastern and Western Europe

Photography

Excerpts from 1943 Highland Park High School Yearbook
I worked part-time at Fromm's 1942-3


I worked in the Photo Dept., Packard Motor Car Co., 1943-45
I was also a free-lance photographer for the Detroit Jewish News


"To Herman, who wasted a flash bulb on me", Harpo Marx, Detroit, 1948
I worked evenings for the photo concession at The Bowery, 1946-49


Bimbo's 365 and The Italian Village Night Clubs, San Francisco
Evenings I printed the photos taken at these night clubs, 1951-52


My first Leica, 1964



Big Box Camera Era, 1994


Springfield Museum, 2007


PhotoZone Gallery, 2011
Exhibition Review


Eugene Weekly, Nov. 2, 2006


Photo Essays by Herman Krieger



My Old Hometown