Alan Cohen

American, born 1943

BiographyAlan Cohen grew up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. After earning a degree in nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University and beginning a doctoral program in thermodynamics at Northwestern University, he began photographing and eventually left the sciences to study photography. As a graduate student at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design, he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegel, Garry Winogrand, Charles Swedlund, Ken Josephson, and Joe Jachna. He was awarded a M.Sc. Photography degree in 1972.

Married to Susan Walsh, Cohen lives in Chicago and is an Adjunct Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a member of the visiting faculty at DePaul University's School for New Learning and at Columbia College Chicago's Department Of Photography.

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