Doherty, Richard

Richard Doherty was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1951. Although he became interested in photography at an early age, he attended the University of Arkansas and earned a BA in Psychology because the university did not offer a photography program until 1977. He was then accepted into the MFA photography program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied with Kenneth Josephson and Joyce Niemanas, and graduated in 1980. A year later, he was hired as Professor of Photography at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. In 1982, he accepted a professorship at Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, where he retired as Emeritus Professor in 2016. His work is held in collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the Tokyo Designer’s Guakin School, Tokyo.