About

Lev Poliakov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and left in the 70’s for America. He currently lives in New York City and is a professor of photography at New York Institute of Technology.

Lev is very passionate about photography and tries to bring awareness of art in photography through his lectures which he presented at Columbia, NYU, George Washington, Vanderbilt and Amherst universities.

He worked with Jacques Cousteau and was part of the Middletown project with Peter Davis at PBS.

His photographs have been exhibited around the world and are part of private collections.

Publications

1992	DIE RUSSEN: Carl Hanser verlag, Munich, Germany. Book of artist’s photographs
1991	RUSSIA – A PORTRAIT: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York. Book of artist’s photographs
1980	DIE VERLORENEN INSELN: Fotogalerie, Schwanenburg, Cologne, Germany. Catalogue
1980	RUSSIA FROM THE INSIDE: Kaiser, Robert. E.P. Dutton, New York. Photo Illustration
1977	APOLON’77:Book of contemporary Russian art. Photo Illustration

Since 1975 various publications in Time Magazine, Basen Blatt, The New York Times, Nurnberger Zeitung, Paris Match, Die Welt, L’Espresso, Heilbronner Stimme, Vouge, Letter nternational. The New York Times Magazine, Photo Technik International, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Foto Vedio, Osttauringer Zeitung

Book covers in Knopf, Random House, Doubleday, Macmillan,

Exhibits

2000	HERBERT HOOVER PAVILION, Stanford University, CA
1992	STADTMUSEUM, Munich, Germany
1987	FOTOGALERIE, Schwanenburg, Cologne, Germany
1983	NIKON HOUSE, New York. “Faces of Russia”
1977	APOLON’77:Book of contemporary Russian art. Photo Illustration

Media Appearances/Interview

1992	CBS, SUNDAY MORNING, Interview
1992	“Vom Stillstand Der Zeit”, Article about artist / Interview. PAN, March, p. 70-73
1984	ABC, 20/20 Profile.
1981	NBC, LIVE AT FIVE. Interview with Sue Simmons.
1981	CBS, SUNDAY MORNING. Photo Portfolio.
1978	“Lev Poliakov: Bridges to My Homeland”. Portfolio. Peterson’s Photographic Magazine, September, p. 72-80