Glen R. Serbin

Glen R. Serbin (b. 1954, Chicago Illinois) is an influential American publisher who is credited with his life-long promotion of the photography industry globally, and founding the historical and internationally acclaimed Photographer’s Forum magazine, which he operated for more than 30 years.
== Industry Impact ==
Serbin is credited with successfully creating notoriety for several influential entities including "The Directory of Illustration, AtEdge," "Verso Limited Editions," Lattis Social, Designer Jewelry Showcase, SiteDesignWorks, World Illustration Awards, Eastman Kodak's Photography and Travel Workshop Directory, Play! Illustration & Design for Toys and Interactive Games, Best of Photography Annual, ASMP Stock Photography Catalog, Best of College and High School Photography Annual, Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum, Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years and The Computer Instructor magazine.
== Historical Impact ==
His impact on the photography industry is prolific, exposing avant-garde innovations in photographic art, as well as being one of the first to report on the professional photography industry as a whole. He is also credited with organizing nation-wide photography contests college market with the emerging professionals across America, which launched countless careers and hobbyists globally.
Serbin graduated UCLA in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
He was the founder, publisher and editor of Photographer's Forum magazine from 1977 to 2018. The magazine was required reading in over 300 college photography programs nationwide and had substantial newsstand circulation. The magazine was the source for new and upcoming photographers and artists.
In 1988 The Latvian Cultural Committee invited Serbin to organize a group of professionals to the Soviet Union in order to curate an exhibition of Soviet photography. In 1989 the Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibited the show and published the companion catalog, Comrades and Cameras; Photography from Latvia and Other Soviet Republics.
In 2013 he was inducted into The Walter Williams Society at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
He is also a Detroit Institute of Arts Fellow.
Serbin is currently a fine art photographer with a studio in Santa Barbara, California.
==Notable works==
===Exhibitions===
*Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1991
*Companion Catalog, Comrades and Cameras, published by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1991
*Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The group included the Santa Barbara Museum photography curator.
*Comrades and Cameras Exhibition 1991
===Collections===
*Getty Research Institute - Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years
*Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum
*National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Library Washington D.C.- Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years
*The Art Institute of Boston- Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years 
*Foundation Museum of Henri-Cartier Bresson/France- Magnum Founders 
*Smithsonian Library Washington D.C. - Photographers Forum magazine (1978-2019)
*Center for Creative Photography - Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years 
*Chrylser Museum of Photography - Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years 
*Library of Congress - Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years
*Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Magnum Founders, Celebrating 60 Years
*Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago 2007
*United States Federal Reserve Board Library, Washington D.C, 2006
===Books===
*Atedge (Microview 8), 2005, 
*Designer Jewelry Showcase, 1996, ASIN B000ZPJPMO
*California Image 98 (January 1998), 
*AtEdge: Macroview 2007, 
*Directory of Illustration: Perpetual Motion No.29, (2012), 
* Play! Illustration for Toys and Interactive Games, 2007, 
*Graphic Artists Guild's Directory of Illustration 1994, p:500, 
*CA Image 99 (January 1999), 
*Image USA 1993, ISBN-10 : 0962885827
*CA Image the Western Sourcebook, , p:224
*Play Illustration for Toys and Interactive Games 2007, 
==Awards==
*World Illustration Awards 2014
*Lucie Awards|Lucie Award 2009 for Book Publisher of the year for their publication of "Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum"
Category:American publishers (people)
Category:1954 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Illinois
Category:American company founders