Photographers Label verso. Kipton C. Kumler. 1976 Near Bamiyan Afghanistan. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" sight size. A native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Kumler earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Cornell. His mother’s graduation gift was a summer in France. “That experience opened up the world to me,” he says with a trace of emotion. Later, while friends volunteered for the Peace Corps, Kumler signed on with the Navy Officer Candidate School and spent nine months patrolling Vietnamese rivers with US Army’s Special Forces. In 1967, he was back at Cornell finishing a master’s degree, then business school, which led to 10 years at Arthur D. Little. Select Exhibitions SEVEN PHOTOGRAPHERS: THE DELAWARE VALLEY with George Tice, Sandy Noyes, Kipton Kumler, Wendy MacNeil, Stephen Shore, John McWilliams and Goodwin Harding. State Museum, Cultural Center, W. State Street, Trenton. New Jersey. The BostonPhoto-Documentary Project Chris Enos, Kipton Kumler, Eugene Richards, John Rizzo, Sage Sohier, Jim Stone Cronin Gallery Houston showed with Elliot Porter Select Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC LACMA Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts Boston Museum of Fine Arts Houston MoCA Los Angeles