BD Vidibor has been photographing since the age of 14. After obtaining a BA and graduate work in philosophy, math and physics, he became a professional photographer in NYC doing commercial and photo reportage work for many years. After retiring from commercial work he continued doing personal work as an artist in the field.
The purpose of this website is to show his work to the world.
BD Vidibor's lifetime work consisted of many subjects photographed in black and white film and manipulated in the darkroom. All are silver gelatin prints done on some of the best papers in their day including Brovira and Agfa, and others no longer in production. His later work was printed on Berger paper imported from Germany. The images shown on this website have been digitized for modern usage.
His work was published in many venues and he had a one-man museum show and was in several important gallery shows.
His show at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ in 1999 was entitled "In Passage" and consisted of original silver gelatin prints taken from a series of 76 photos taken from train windows often in poor condition adding to their mystery and allure. These are thus often surreal and were treated with self-designed manual techniques in the darkroom.
These works were also reviewed in the NYTimes and then the prestigious Print Collectors Newsletter.
BD also has a lifelong collection of abstract nudes and surreal landscapes. He did much work on the Maine tidal coast and Upstate NY farmland. He also did some work in international areas.
He was a favorite of several editors of professional magazines for portraiture and objects used in the production of products and because of his patience and solicitousness was welcomed into sensitive situations like private meetings and medical venues.
His first publication was of photographs taken in a county old age home in New York State in the mid-1960s. A selection of this work was chosen for an honorary spread in "Infinity", the then-house organ of the Society of Photographic Educators.
These photos were published in the NYTimes, Newsweek and other publications of the 1970s in connection with the widespread publicity for the need for nursing home legislation. They were also used in textbooks and other venues.
In addition to the general public, we invite photographic professionals, curators, and editors to visit this site and view the work hoping there would soon be a need for them to be shown more widely.
In addition to this website, his estate is looking forward to a book to be made of his most important and varied work.
Marlene Y. Caller Vidibor
Estate of Bernard Vidibor
