Echo Fine Arts is proud to welcome Robert Farber. With a career spanning over 50 years and over half-a-million copies of his books sold, Farber's painterly photographic style has influenced generations of photographers. His impressionistic artworks capture the essence of composition in every genre, including nude, still life, landscape and architecture. 

Farber’s work with nudes in fine art as well as in the commercial realm is known and respected. He has lectured for Ogilvy & Mather on the “Nude in Advertising.” ASMP requested to use Farber’s nudes as an examples of the artistic application in support of the National Endowment of Arts, after its backing of the controversial Mapplethorpe/Serrano exhibit. His book, “Farber Nudes,” was also included the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate collection.

Farber’s fine-art photographs have been published in virtually every form. Farber has exhibited in galleries and museums world-wide. He’s lectured at the Smithsonian Institute, The George Eastman House, as well as Universities and professional groups throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe. Aside from his fine art photography, Robert Farber’s work encompasses major campaigns for fashion, beauty and advertising, as well as film directing for TV and Film. Robert has recently been approached for a film documenting his life as a photographer which is to be produced for PBS in the USA.

In parallel to its growing commercial career in the fashion industry, Farber's first book "Images of Woman", was published in 1976. Already, Farber had crafted his own distinguishable style: the female body appears in its entirety or as a motif, bathed in a sensual and natural light in interiors or impressionistic landscapes. The book caught the attention of art directors and gallerists alike, hence leading to new commercial assignments and fine art exhibitions. His talent for female nudes did not go unnoticed by Playboy and Penthouse, who commissionned him to create more erotic photographs, which he chose to publish under an alias.

Following his nudes books, Robert Farber gained more popularity in the advertising and fashion industry. His photographs appears on the covers of major publications such as QG, Vogue, Esquire, Elle, Viva, Cosmopolitan or Vanity Fair to name a few. He signed campaigns for Revlon, Ponds Cream, Caress Soap, Saks Fifth Avenue, Christian Dior, L'Oréal, Paramount Pictures, Bloomingdales and many more . Owned by conservative American companies, these advertising assignments validated the photographer's nude style while giving it legitimacy in the eye of the establishment. Additionally, his book "Farber Nudes" was listed in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate auction. Farber was even asked to help with the National Endowment of the Arts as examples of good taste in nude photography.

" Photographic collections of America and Americana have been in widespread publication for decades. Most take a photojournalistic perspective, documenting life as it happens, at its most real. Variations on the theme exist, some going so far as to present a simultaneous aspect to its documentation.  [... ] Robert Farber has spent his professional career as a very different kind of photographic scribe. Rather than recount in images, Farber paints in dreams. Be it the dying sun of a beachfront horizon or the elegant curve of a human form, the mood is frozen, and the emotion is made to endure. What makes these captured moments all the more captivating is that they are not dreams but, in fact, reality. We just didn’t see it. Robert Farber did.”

- Lee Sheridan

Foreword of “American Moods”, Merrell publishing, 2004

His nude books also led him to other territories. Following the publication of his fifth book Farber Nudes (1983), Farber received a call from former first lady and Doubleday senior editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Farber, who had recently spent time on the French Riviera, showed her his recent photographs, which included many seaside images. Onassis enthusiastically reacted: “Let’s call the book ‘By The Sea’ and add images from various parts of the world”.

Farber's artworks are enhanced by the handwritten thoughts and comments of sixty people whose lives have been touched in some way by the sea. From Anne Bancroft and Whoopi Goldberg to a lifeguard at Malibu, from Erte and Yoko Ono to an innkeeper in Mexico, their eloquence transforms this book. From a collection of exceptional photographs, il becomes an homage to one of the most enduring relationships in nature: the bond that unites man to the sea.

First published in 1987, then revised for paperback in 1994, ‘’By The Sea’’ went on to win the Art Director’s Award for Color Photography.