Tom Schiff (born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1947) is one of our country’s outstanding architectural photographers. He has produced over a dozen books featuring many of America’s significant landmarks including libraries, theaters, religious sites, art museums and over-the-top buildings of Las Vegas.
He has photographed the buildings of many of the world’s renowned architects: Frank Heyling Furness, Herzog & de Meuron, I. M. Pei, Charles F. McKim, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Russell Pope, Tadao Ando, Kulapat Yantrasast, Michael Graves, Antoine Predock, Peter Eisenman, Santiago Calatrava, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moshe Safdie, Gordon Bunshaft, Rafael Viñoly, Steven Holl and Mario Botta.
His panoramic camera captures building interiors in a full 360° sweep, allowing the viewer to see what is directly in front in addition to the views to the left, right, and the rear.
“The panoramic photographs of Thomas R. Schiff seduce with their abstraction and, at the same time, demonstrates how photography can service our understanding of architecture.”
—Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor and Chair, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia
“The panoramas’ broad sweep solves what photographers call the ‘color/space‘ problem—the fact that intense color obliterates photographic space, while self-consciously evocative space tends to suppress the intensity of color.”
—Dave Hickey, Art Critic
“Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright these panoramic photographs reveal a whole new perspective for viewing our world.”
—Eric Lloyd Wright, Grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright