F Photo essay: ID or Ego, Life of Herman (Chaim) Krieger

Biography of Herman (Chaim) Krieger


ID or Ego

   

Vital Statistics

   Born Detroit, Michigan 1926
   Father born in Austria 1888, came to America in 1912.
   Mother born in Russia 1890, came to America in 1914.


I was named Chaim by my parents but,
the nurse wrote Herman on the birth registration



Detroit, 1942

Krieger Family
The Krieger family were together again in Detroit in December 1945.
My brother and I had returned from service in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
My sister had returned from working in an airplane factory in Los Angeles.

Orphaned 1980

Herzlia Cemetary
Burial at the Herzliya cemetery


   Married Atty de Vries
Marriage Certificate
During Fall Joint Computer Conference at San Francisco, 1966


Susanna born 1969 during a temporary stay in California, and over 50 years later


Education


   Elementary School, Detroit

I learned to dip into water and books at the Balch
Elementary School in Detroit in the early 1930s.


   High School, Detroit
Highland Park High School Diploma
1940-1943


   U.S. Army Air Corps

Attended the Photo School (while awaiting Pre Flight Training), and then became
an instructor at the school. I learned to fly a plane before I learned to drive a car.
1944-1945



Wayne Univ., Detroit
Wayne Univ. Main
Chemistry Major, 1947-1950


   Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Univ. California  Diploma
Mathematics Major, 1953-1956


   Ecole des Langues Orientales, Paris
Carte d'élève
Russian, 1960-61


   Univ. of Oregon
USSR

   Foreign Languages:
    Nederlands, Français, Deutsch

   Programming Languages:
    IBM 300x Assembly, Fortran,
    C, Z80 Assembly, HTML


   Bicycling

bicycle mechanic certificate
Bicycle Maintenance, 1988




With my Bike Friday Recumbent and my new Hase Trike



   Politics


harry s truman
I am a born and bred liberal
Father: FDR Democrat;   Mother: Labor Zionist, (knew Golda Meir)


   Work Experience


   Newspaper Boy
liberty magazine
Liberty Magazine, 1935-36


Hutchins Intermediate
The Detroit News, 1938-40
My route was Englewood, Woodland, and Tennyson Streets

September 1, 1939 headline
Besides papers for my route, I sold Extra Editions on the street,
such as on the morning of Sept. 1, 1939 at the start of WWII.

   Photography

1943 yearbook
Excerpt from 1943 Highland Park High School Yearbook
We took photos for the school paper with an old Speed Graphic.



Part-time Clerk at the photo counter, Fromm's, 1942-3
Evenings I printed photos for the Press Picture Service,
an agency that took photos of UAW-CIO events and activities.

Packard Motor Car Co.
I worked in the Photo Department of Packard Motor Car Co., 1943-44



Jewish News
Evenings and weekends during 1944, free-lance photographer
for the Detroit Jewish News



jubilee
During the 1946 Golden Jubilee of the automobile in Detroit,
working for the Press Picture Service, I photographed every
antique auto on exhibit at the Detroit Convention Hall.


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

North Beach
Bimbo's 365 and The Italian Village Night Clubs, San Francisco
Worked evenings printing the photos taken at these night clubs, 1951-52 in order
to save money for attending UC Berkeley after establishing California residence.



   Chemist
auto paint chemist
W.P. Fuller(Nason) Paint Co., So. San Francisco, 1951-53
My speciality was lacquers and air dry enamals for autos.


   Programmer

x0 olpc
From Abacus to One Laptop per Second Childhood

Via Real-Time Systems, Military Computers, and IBM Mainframes
Ibm 704 and verdan
North American Aviation / Autonetics, Los Angeles and Anaheim 1956-59
Verdan was a general purpose computer and digital differential analyzer.
I wrote the factory checkout and assembly language programs for it.

Fadac Computer
California Computer Products, 1961-62
I wrote the main program for the Fadac computer.


kinoptik
Institut Blaise Pascal, Paris, 1962-63

doverport
Houston Instrument, 1973-1985



   Free-Lance Programmer

Kontron
     Kontron, Munich, 1982-85         Euratom, Petten, 1984        Shell Oil, Rijswijk, 1985-86

GKS-GRAL
GTS-GRAL GmbH, Darmstadt, 1987-89



   International Marketing

passport

Visa Veni Vidi Vendi


Permis de Conduire Rijbewijs








1963 - 1985

   
Eastern and Western Europe



Director and owner, Int. Snacks B.V, with coffeeshops in Amsterdam,
Utrecht, and Rotterdam, Including Winkelcentrum Zuidplein
1972-1985


   Return to Photography, 1990

Univ. Oregon  Diploma
BFA, Photography, 1994



costa
Post BFA, Costa Manos Workshop




Brass works done in Basic Design class



Mixed Media entry in Eugene Mayor's Art Show 1991, Jacobs Gallery,
being admired by Springfield Mayor, Bill Morrisette and Wife


Dotson
Entries in Dot Dotson's and the Mayor's Art Show, 1992


PZHighSt
The PhotoZone Gallery, that started on High Street, was a non-profit
cooperative that florished before the rise of digital cameras and Photoshop.




Golems on Display


Lane County Historical Museum
A Historical Event?



Royal Photographic Society
Big Box Camera Era, 1995


Trudy Wilner Stack



"A Day in the Life of a Mobile Veterinarian" as seen by a former cub photographer




West 11th Avenue includes residential, commercial, light industry, and wet land areas.



book
"Churches ad hoc" published, 1998







The Dutch Photo Festival is held every two years in the old fortified town of Naarden.



M.I.L.K.
M.I.L.K. (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship) International Exhibition,
Juried by Elliot Erwitt, appeared 2001-2003 at Grand Central Terminal, New York;
Regents Park, London; Sydney Opera House, and Federation Square, Melbourne.



Terri Warpinsky


Clotworthy museum


coosbay
An exhibition of journalistic photography: Considering the photojournalist
as an artist and the images they capture on film a 'fine art' medium.



Opus 6IX Gallery, September 2006, Four Photographer Show, curated by Robert Canaga


Springfield museum


corvallis
2009, Photography Guild Invitational Exhibition, juried by Phil Harris
2010, FAR AWAY Trains and Travel Exhibition, curated by Hester Coucke



photo gallery hanging





Christopher Rauschenberg


General Aviation News
O,Brien Photo Imaging Gallery, Apr. 13 - May 9, 2013

Guild


pao


cag
The Around Oregon Annual Juried Exhibition, 2015, 2016, and 2017,
showcases the fine art and craft produced in Oregon.



emerald

emerald

emerald

emerald
National Annual Photography Exhibitions, Springfield, Oregon



Blackbox
Various exhibits at the Black Box Gallery in Portland



coosbay
Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild Exhibition
Low Tide Landscapes, curated by Julia Bradshaw



hightdesert
High Desert Museum, Legendary Landscapes, Feb. 18, 2017 - Dec. 2, 2017



lasells
Painted Hills



cascadia
Voluteer Fireman, Blue River



lasells
Pier Peers on the Florence waterfront



lightbox
The photographer Dorothea Lange said that she wanted to make pictures that are
"second lookers" - pictures that reward repeated viewings. It has been my privilege
to assemble an exhibition made up of such photographs. The pictures record what is
"entitled to reverence," as the dictionary defines the word "sacred" - times and places
and people that point beyond themselves. We stand today in particular need of such
testaments.     ~ Robert Adams



Venice

ncoa

Roseburg


Blackbox


philomath


lasells


lOSU


lasells


artcenter


lightbox


lightbox


phart


Blackbox


PhotoZone


ArtFolio


Lasalls



PBS/OPB "Oregon Art Beat" interview. Click on start ▷ to view the OPB video




Interview conducted by Stu Levy in regard to the
Northwest Pacific Photographer Archive at the Univ. of Washington






A-musements from my College Years




My Old Hometown





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