William Clift

1944

American (North American) (United States, Boston(Suffolk, Massachusetts))

Born 5 January 1944. From 1963 to 1971, Clift worked as a freelance commercial photographer in partnership with Steve Gersh, under the name Helios. The studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts specialized in architectural photography. Clift was commissioned by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts in 1970 to produce an extensive photographic document on the Old Boston City Hall. In 1971 Clift moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has since worked there as a freelance photographer. From 1975 to 1976, Clift produced photographs of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, and of American court houses. Clift photographed Mont-Saint-Michel, France in 1977 and again in 1981-1982. In 1984 Clift was commissioned to photograph the New York State capital at Albany, and also the Hudson River Highlands.