From the Artists Series. This portrait is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s American History Museum.

David Scheinbaum is Anne and John Marion Professor and Chair of the Photography Department at the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe. He moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1978 and began printing for the photographer, curator and photo historian, Beaumont Newhall in 1979. As a friend an assistant to Mr. Newhall, Scheinbaum met many photographers and collectors. This led to his opening a gallery—together with his wife, Janet Russek—in Santa Fe in 1980. To date they have exhibited and worked with over 300 photographers. Scheinbaum & Russek have approached the gallery world through their roles as educators, artists, and collectors and have brought to their gallery an appreciation of photographers, the fine print and the history of photography.

Scheinbaum has exhibited internationally, and is represented in many museum collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, The Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, The National Portrait Gallery/The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, and The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, Austin.