Photography & Imaging
Jeffrey Scales |
Biography
Jeffrey Henson Scales was born in 1954 in San Francisco, California. At the age of 11, his father, an audio engineer and an amateur photographer, gave him his first camera - a 35mm Leica. At age 13, he began making photographs of the Oakland Black Panthers and other bay area political activists of the 1960’s. The photographs were regularly published in The Black Panther Paper from 1968 to 1971, and, at the age 14, he was published nationally for the first time in Time Magazine. In 1979, he was recruited to be the photo editor of the LA Weekly newspaper with the start-up team that set the tone for one of the most successful and established weekly newspapers in the country. For more than 20 years, Scales worked as a documentary and commercial photographer for numerous magazines, film and record company’s worldwide, photographing topics from Crips gangs in Los Angeles to major film and music personas such as actor, Robert DeNiro, musical groups Arrested Development and The Jacksons. In addition to his work for publications and entertainment packaging, he has been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe. His work appears in numerous photographic magazines, books and anthologies, as well as in several permanent museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art New York, and The Baltimore Museum of Art. Since 1998, Scales has been an editor at The New York Times, currently the Photography Editor of Sunday’s “The Week In Review” and “The Book Review” sections, both online and print editions.
