Robert W. Fichter

Who is Robert W. Fichter?

Robert Witten Fichter is an American photographer.

Born in Fort Myers, Florida, he attended the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he studied under Jerry Uelsmann, Ken Kerslake and Jack Nicholsen and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1963. He continued his studies under Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, Bloomington earning a Masters of Fine Arts in 1966.

In 1966, Fichter moved to Rochester, NY and worked as an Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography working under Nathan Lyons. In 1969, Nathan Lyons founded Visual Studies Workshop, a non-profit education and media arts center with which Fichter would maintain a lasting association.

Leaving the Eastman House in 1968, Fichter became an Assistant Professor at UCLA, where he taught with Robert Heinecken and Todd Walker. From 1971 - 1975, Fichter held visiting artist and teaching positions at UCLA, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and at Florida State University. He became an Assistant Professor at Florida State University in 1971, and continued to teach there, until his retirement as full professor in 2006.