1940-present
Works in the Collection
Biography
Donald E. Camp was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1940. Camp holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He began his career in photography as a newspaper photographer and after ten years as a photojournalist, sought a degree in the fine arts. Camp is the subject of an American Artist Oral History at the Smithsonian Institute. He has been honored for his work with a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Camp has exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Institute for Contemporary Art; the Delaware Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Noyes Museum. Camp’s work is included in a number of important public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently a professor of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.