Bill (William) Marder

Bill Marder has had a photographic career spanning over fifty years. He has specialized in all phases of photography including photographic processes, techniques, and the history of photography.

In 1947 Bill enlisted in the U. S. Army and served as a photographer with the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Division, in Japan. While in Japan, he won numerous awards in Army sponsored photo contests.

Upon leaving the army, Bill Marder entered the graphic arts field as a photographer and graphic artist in color separations. During 1950s to 1970 Marder opened his first business, Mar-Color Inc. and then Creative Process Inc. His customers were national advertising, cosmetic, and fashion agencies. During the years in his own business, he invented numerous techniques related to the color separation field, among which were direct color separations for newspapers.

In the 1950s Bill Marder was among the first to utilize photography as a method of photographing the advertiser’s merchandise for producing catalogs, controlling the photography and printing processes from beginning to the end. In 1970 he moved to Hollywood Florida to help manage Dukane Press, part of International Silver Company. with one of the worlds largest in house photography and printing facilities that included the earliest scanners and computers.

During the 1970s Bill Marder entered in the collecting field of photography, authoring numerous books and articles on the history of photography. Most of these were illustrated with his own photography. His largest book, Anthony, The Man, The Company, The Cameras, 365 pages, and over 1000 illustrations were co-authored with his wife Estelle. The forward was by the noted historian and photographer Beaumont Newhall. This book was acclaimed in numerous reviews for its superb documentation, research and photographs on the history of photography.

Marder’s book The History and Technique of a New Diffusion Process, utilized an instant paper negative process, (before Polaroid) which Bill Marder pioneered along with taking photographs using the large wood cameras 8x10 to 20x24 from his collection.

Bill Marder has traveled throughout the United States, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Canada, France and England lecturing on the history of photography. In 1984 Marder’s historic collection of cameras and his new Anthony book were on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the 1990s with the entrance of the first digital camera, Bill Marder was one of the first to own, learn and develop techniques for use with his Mac computer.

In 1996 Bill moved to Ocala, Florida. He was the photographer for many events in Ocala such as “Light Up Ocala”, Martin Luther King Jr. Annual march, and Photographer for the “Will McLean Annual Folk Music Festival.” In 2006 Bill Marder was the only photographer with 3 other women Artists selected from a number of entries from Florida to exhibit their work at the 2006 Biennial at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida.

At the present time in the year 2008, Bill Marder is into his fourth digital camera utilizing a Panasonic 12 x zoom FZ 30 and a small Canon A720 IS with a Mac computer, and two Epson printers mixing his own archival inks with a CFS system. He is able to create small or large original photographs on canvas or other art papers in both Black and White and Color. He has defined his work as a new advance in the many processes of Photography.

Marder’s works have been and are now in galleries in Belleview, Ocala, Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, as well as Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City and Port Jefferson, New York and Williamstown, Ma. as well as in a number of private collections.

See Bill's complete member gallery HERE.
For more information or to view Bill's website, please go to www.billmarder.com or email him at Sacrcir@aol.com.