Congratulations to Herb Striner. Former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University, Economist Herbert E. Striner, also worked in the corporate and public sectors. His photography has been featured in exhibits and publications. This collection consists of over 9,000 black & white negatives, color slides, and color negatives depicting a wide variety of subjects in the United States and abroad from the 1940s to 1998 including Washington, DC landmarks such as the National Cathedral and C&O Canal. 

Herbert Striner got his first camera when he was waiting to return home from the China-Burma-India Theater at the end of World War II. Some of the earliest photographs in this collection document life on a troop ship. Dr. Striner took his camera with him on his personal and professional travels depicting the people he met and the places he visited. Dr. Striner switched to digital photography in 1999.

 The Dean of the School of Communications came to me one day and told me that a fellow named Herb Striner was coming out of retirement to take my class…and it was implied, I should be in awe!!  And so i was!  He put himself to work at digital imaging and ended up digitizing circles around his fellow students. His collection of photography has just been accepted for the Washington Research Libraries Collection and I want to congratulate him for making sure that his archives are on file.  As a photographer, I urge you all to collect and digitize those images which aren’t just snapshots, they are history.

After the war, Herb traveled extensively, worked on productivity issues for Ford and other major corporations and during his tenure as Dean, the American University School of Business was held in highest regard.  Today, he’s gone beyond photography and is using digital tools to produce abstractions on paper.