Bill Perlmutter was born in New York on September 5th, 1932. He began his career with a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Techniques from the City College Film Institute in New York. In 1954 after graduating from the United States Army Photography School, he spend two years in Europe as a staff photographer for the U.S. Army newspapers based in West Germany. Since then he traveled extensively all around the world as a free-lance photographer. From 1978-1997 he worked as the Vice President of Rainbow Chromes, a company specializing in photographic and digital retouching. His images have been collected and exhibited by fine art galleries world-wide and are in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian and the Museum of the City of New York. Bill Perlmutter passed away on January 3, 2023, at the age of 95 in his hometown of New York.
| 2019 |
„Europe in the Fifties - Through a Soldiers Lens“ Centre Charlemangne, Aachen |
| 2015 |
„Europe in the Fifties - Through a Soldiers Lens“ Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Berlin |
| 2014 |
„Europe in the Fifties - Through a Soldiers Lens“ Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne |
| 2013 |
„Europe in the Fifties - Through a Soldiers Lens“ Galerie Hilaneh von Kories, Hamburg |
| 2007 |
„To Be Young in San Miguel“, Le Noir Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
| 2004 |
„Return to Ground Zero”, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY |
| 2002 |
„Heroes of the Sea”, Silo Gallery, Oporto, Portugal |
| 2002 |
„An American in Germany”, Michael Holtmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany |
| 1997 |
„Faces of the Fifties”, Modernage Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 |
„Faces of the Fifties”, Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY |
| 1970 |
„Portrait of the Portuguese”, Modernage Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1969 |
„People of Mexico”, Modernage Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1961 |
„Children of Europe”, Parents Magazine, New York, NY |
| 2009 |
The 9/11 Memorial Museum, Permanent Collection, New York, NY |
| 2003 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, Permanent Collection, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Portuguese Center of Photography, Permanent Collection, images from Heroes of the Sea, Oporto Portugal |
| 1999 |
Museum of the City of New York, Permanent Collection, New York, NY |
| 1998 |
Corcoran Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, Washington DC |
| 1994 |
The Smithsonian Museum, Archives of American Art, Permanent Collection, Washington DC |
| 1993 |
The Museum of Modern Art, Film Archives, New York, NY |
