Victor Aleman:
CLASS OF 1965
Belmont High SchoolClass of 1965
Los angeles, CA
Victor's Story
Victor is from San Francisco, California. Victor is married. Victor's schools include Belmont High School. Victor later attended San Francisco Art Institute, Los Angeles City College. Victor works(ed) at OUTLAW BLUES BAND, Flying Kiss Music, 2mun-dos Communications.
Victor's favorite athletes include Serena Williams. Music Victor likes includes Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, ZZ Top. Books Victor likes include Cien Años de Soledad. Movies Victor likes include DOLORES The Movie, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca.
One of Victor's favorite quotes is:"Knowledge plus understanding equal intelligence.".
More about Victor:"During a career that has spanned 40 years, Victor Aleman has created a body of work rich in the pageantry of life. The extraordinary technical
perfection of his photography accentuated by his visionary sense creates a sociological photographic study of the human condition.
He found his first artistic muse as the founder, director and drummer for the Outlaw Blues Band. As the chief architect of their unique, groundbreaking sound, he recorded two albums for ABC Bluesway Records, released in 1968 and 1969. Now the collection is presented by Universal Music.
After re-locating to San Francisco in the early 1970's, he began his career as an independent photojournalist. This precipitated a personal journey
marked by travels through various countries in Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Ecuador). His experiences documenting the abject poverty so prevalent in the living environment of the native indigenous people proved to be one of such intensity that he was to view it as a lifelong inspiration; he then realized the ...Expand for more
ideal medium for recording life as he saw it was through the lens of his camera.
Returning to the Bay Area in 1976, he began production on "Le Gnome / El Gnomo", his first alternative publication. Featuring contemporary visual
artists from Latin America living in the Bay area, it was one of the first publications to provide a mass-market forum for those in the Latino art community in the region. In 1979 he co-created "Banana Publications", a Los Angeles based alternative monthly publication, featuring major visual artist and their work in the entertainment industry.
In early 1980, he began a working relationship with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, a collaboration that lasted 12 years. Starting as Managing Editor of El Malcriado, the UFW membership publication; he also co-founded KUFW, the first farm workers radio station, and served in the position of Program and Development Director. He oversaw the UFW Publications Department, publishers of "Food and Justice" and "El Malcriado".
His assignments have taken him to various countries in the world including Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Canada. He has also photographed Mother Teresa, John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, Jacques Cousteau, Muhammad Ali, Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Michael Jackson and many other personalities.
Victor Aleman is currently working on three photographic book projects of his indelible images, one on the people of El Salvador, the other focusing on his 12 years relationship with Cesar Chavez and the farm workers' movement and the third one of famous people.".
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