Eric Lindbloom (1934 - 2020) was a photographer and founding member of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He was born in Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied literature and philosophy. From 1969 to 1971 he studied photography with Paul Caponigro. With Dan McCormack, Lindbloom co-founded and taught the still ongoing Advanced Photography Seminar at Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Lindbloom has published two monographs: Angels at the Arno (Godine 1994), and Diana In Sight (Brighton Press, 2009), along with The River That Runs Two Ways with poems by Nancy Willard (Brighton Press, 2000). Additional catalogues of his exhibitions include Workprints: Eric Lindbloom’s Panoramas of the Hudson Valley (2021) and Eric Lindbloom: A Retrospective (Village Pond Press, 2018).
Lindbloom was awarded fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Dutchess County Arts Council, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, along with an artist residency at Yaddo. He has had over thirty solo and group exhibitions. Lindbloom’s photographs are held in the public collections of The New York Public Library, the Alinari Museum in Florence, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.