He taught photography at what is now the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, beginning in 1974, and two years later he launched its bachelor of fine arts program in photography. Mr. DiPerna went to Aspen, Colo., to attend a workshop for photographic artists, working in the darkroom to help pay his tuition. He taught photography at Northern Virginia Community College for five years and received a master’s degree in photography from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., in 1977. Even as he taught, Mr. DiPerna amassed a vast photography portfolio, including portraits, industrial spaces and landscapes. “It is a masterpiece, the quintessence of DiPerna’s uniquely American style of landscape photography,” Protzman wrote.

Source: Washington Post July 18, 2020 17:15 UTC