Robert Seydel

Biography
The late Robert Seydel was an assistant professor of photography and film at Hampshire. He held a B.F.A. in English and photography from New York University and an M.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He taught on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and served for a number of years as Director of Exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. Professor Seydel received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his serial work, A Short History of Portraiture. His final projects incorporated his ongoing interests in collage, language, fiction and history.