10 Facts About Roger Minick

Roger Laell Minick was born on July 13,1944 and is an American photographer who has documented tourists in the National Parks of the United States.

Roger Minick's books include Delta West and Hills of Home, both published by Scrimshaw.

Roger Minick was born in Ramona, Oklahoma, and grew up in the Ozarks of Arkansas.

From 1964 to 1969 Roger Minick attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a BA in History in 1969.

From 1965 to 1975, Roger Minick worked on staff at the ASUC Studio, eventually becoming Director from 1971 to 1975.

At the completion of this project a book resulted, titled Hills of Home, which was a collaboration with his father Bob Roger Minick who wrote a text consisting of stories and remembrances from the Ozarks.

In 1977, Roger Minick worked on a two-year National Endowment for the Arts Photo Survey project on the Mexican American community.

Roger Minick's best known photo project, the "Sightseer" series, in which he photographed tourists visiting the National Parks and Monuments in the United States, began in 1979.

Roger Minick's best known image from the "Sightseer" series, "Woman at Inspiration Point, 1980", was included in the Oakland Museum of California 1989 exhibition Picturing California, which traveled nationally, and this same image was featured on the cover of the catalogue for the exhibition.

In 1981, Roger Minick was commissioned to photograph the newly renovated Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, the resulting series of color photographs becoming a book titled The Oakland Paramount.