David Liittschwager is an American freelance photographer and author of three books. Liittschwager was born in 1961 and was an assistant photographer of Richard Avedon from 1983-86. Later on, he became a freelance photographer for such magazines as Audubon, National Geographic and Scientific American among others. In 2002 he was a producer of a film called Skulls and X-Ray Ichthyology: The Structure of Fishes which he made for the California Academy of Sciences and six years later became a co-author of a book called Edible Schoolyard which was authored by Alice Waters. In 2011 he was asked by David Brower Center in Berkeley, California to commission Third Annual Art Exhibition and in 2012 University of Chicago Press published his book called One Cubic Foot. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Liittschwager] ... has lived in San Francisco for the past 21 years. Between 1983-86, he worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon in New York City. He continued to work in advertising for a number of years before turning his skills to portraiture with an emphasis on natural history subjects. ...W.S. Di Piero described the work: “In One Cubic Foot he has created a pictorial archive of the planet’s biodiversity. The archive holds hundreds of species, from the tiniest marine creatures to birds and mammals. But its documentary purpose is only the foundation of the project. Liittschwager’s greater ambition is to inquire into the bounty of the natural order. He wants, in his words, “to present plenitude on a scale that’s manageable.” He wants, in other words, to put infinity in an ink jar then show us what’s there. The variety astonishes. His shrub land cubic foot, for instance, contains insects a millimeter in length along with 25 flowering plant species. The intensity of his inquiry and amplitude of his curiosity result in a particularized and summative testimony to the seemingly endless variety of species.” [http://thephotosociety.org/member/david-liittschwager/] undefined

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