Born 5 July 1954, Flint, Michigan. Living in San Francisco since 1978.
 

 
Pre-Med/English, The University of Michigan. 1972–1977

Self-taught photographer.

Chief Photographer, Michigan Free Press, 1975–77.

Free-lance photographer 1978 to present. Curator since 1993.
 

 
Over fifty internationally, since 1977.

 

   
   

 
North Berkeley Frame & Gallery, 2004

The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 2003

FotoLab Gallery at the Moscow Architecture Institute , Moscow, 2003

The Phoenix Gallery, Moscow, 2002

The House of Photography, Moscow, 2002

3A Garage Architecture Gallery, San Francisco, 2002

The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 2002

The Phoenix Gallery, Moscow, 2000.

The Phoenix Gallery, Moscow, 1999.

The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 1998

The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 1997

The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 1996

7 èmes Rencontres Photographiques du Voironnais, France, 1995

Bank of America, Giannini Gallery, San Francisco, 1993

Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, 1992

Rötzscher Bookbinding, San Francisco, 1989

The University of Bridgeport, CT, 1983

School of the Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1981.
 

   
 

 
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Alderman Library, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Cabo Frio International Print Biennial, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

The Getty Museum, Malibu, CA

The House of Photography, Moscow

The Houston Center for Photography, TX

The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

The International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA

The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN

Musée Rodin, Paris

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

The Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

The University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
 

   
 

 
Artweek

Between Twelve and Twenty. American Infrared Survey

Black & White Photography (Sussex)

Collector's Photography

Erotic Photography, An Exhibition

Erotic Photography Now, 2006 (Taschen)

Flora (Graphis)

Focus (New York)

FotoVideo Review (Moscow)

Graphis Photography 2005; also 1997

International Portfolio of Artists' Photography

The International Society of Copier Artists Quarterlies

The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotic Women, 2006

Nudes (Graphis)

Nudes3 (Graphis)

Nudes4 (Graphis)

Obscura

Photo Art International (Surrey)

Selections 4 (Polaroid)

Sensual Images (P.I.E. Books)

Super Photo Práctica

Silvershotz (Queensland)

Untitled 21 (Friends of Photography)

View Camera

ZOOM International

ZYZZYVA

[and several other exhibition catalogs, books and magazines]
 

   
 

 
Purpose, 2005 Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA

The Vico Collaboration, 2004 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA

Inscriptions, 2003 The Book Club of San Francisco, San Francisco Public Library

Jane, 2000 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA

The Beams of Montaigne's Library, 1996 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA. Translations, essay and photography by D. Letbetter.

This Book is an Object, 1989 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA. Text by René Fontaine.

Several one of a kind artist books, rice paper books and leporellos.
 

   
   

 
Vico duodecimo Axiom 65, 2006 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA.

Vico Photographs, 2003 The Greenwood Press, San Francisco, CA.

Tulips, 1992 Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.
 

   
   

 
K, 2006, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Vico, the collaborations, 2006, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Berlin, 2004, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

New York , 2004, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA. 

City Nights , 2004, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA. 

Moscow Street Portraits, 2004, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Lisbon, 2003, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Tokyo, 2003, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Flint, 2003, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Nudes, 2002, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Vertical Kyoto, 2002, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Kyoto, 2002, Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.

Moscow, 2001 Editions Michel Eyquem, San Francisco, CA.
 

   
   

 
Dennis Letbetter
1256 Masonic Avenue
San Francisco, California 94117
415.431.7546
studioletbetter@earthlink.net

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