Alan Klug was born in 1944 in Oakland, California and educated at University of Colorado on a poetry scholarship. He obtained an M.A. in 1968 and then taught English at the university level for several years. Because his father was a U.S. Navy submarine officer during World War II, the family moved regularly, and Klug developed a lifelong travel habit. During this time, he took up painting, which
...see more » is something he still does. Klug is a self-taught photographer and ex-professor of English Literature wjp taught at the University of Houston and began showing work professionally in 1979 when he began making photographs seriously and has been a full-time professional ever since. Photographing the unseen, infrared range of light can magnify abstraction, as can very long exposures, yielding images that reflect the artist's dream world. Recognizing these motivations in his work, he attempts to show not what something looks like, but what it feels like. « see less
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