1933 Born in Brooklyn, New York (NY) 1955 B.A. degree in English, Queens College, NY 1956 M.A. degree in English Literature, University of Chicago, IL 1960 PhD student in English at University of Minnesota 1964 Modern Photography magazine, August, three photos (including "Minnesota Fire") in "Discovery" article. Camera choices are a Leica M2 with 50mm f/3.5 Elmar or 35mm f/2.8 Summaron lenses and a Leica IIIc with f/2 Summar lens. Film choices are Adox KB 17 and Tri-X, which he developed in Diafine. Prints on Agfa Brovira paper 1965 Left school to devote life to photography 1966 group exhibit, "Recent Acquistions", Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC, curated by John Szarkowski. Two gelatin silver prints in permanent collection, "Minnesota Fire" (also in catalog) and "Super-Pop Artists" 1966 group exhibit, "The Photographer's Forum", Institutio Mexicano Norteamericano Relationes Culturales 1967 group exhibit, "The People's Protest", Columbia University, NYC 1969 group exhibit, "Vision and Expression", George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Two photos in show, "Mother and Child on WIlliamsburg Bridge" and "El Rito Mansion" (also in related Vision and Expression, An International Survey of Contemporary Photography book by Nathan Lyons, Horizon Press, NY). 1969 Popular Photography magazine, "Karla at Petro Waterfall" and another photo in an article featuring women 1969 Exhibit, "New Settlers", Darkroom Gallery, NYC 1970 Exhibit, "New Settlers", Baldwin Street Gallery, Toronto 1972 Completed binders of "New Settlers of New Mexico" and "Enclosure" photos 1973 Liberation magazine, June, several photos 1973 Shelter by Lloyd Kahn, Shelter Publication, Ca., cover photo and adobe article and photo from the "New Settlers of New Mexico" collection 1974 Died in Brooklyn, NY 1974 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 17 prints in permanent collection 1979 Creative Camera magazine, no. 184, October, p. 354, "Minnesota Fire" photo 1979 Aperture magazine, no. 81, October, p. 4, "Minnesota Fire" photo 1979 Photography Year book, Time-Life Books, "Minnesota Fire" photo, one of nine images from Szarkowski's controversial MoMA show of 1965 1995 American Photography 1890-1965, From the Museum of Modern Art book by Peter Galassi, "Minnesota Fire" photo 2002 Family and friends collect 300 of his works and seek recognition 2003 Spiritus magazine, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall 2003, p. 200, "America Needs Indians" photo 2003 Emptiness without Ego by Irwin Klein and Alan Klein, hoho studio press, Co., photos and poetry 2004 Homework by Lloyd Kahn, Shelter Publication, Ca., 19 photos from the "New Settlers of New Mexico" collection 2007 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 by Tim Hodgdon, Columbia University Press, cover photo from the "New Settlers of New Mexico" collection 2008 Spaced Out by Alastair Gordon, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. NY, "Woman chopping wood" photo from the "New Settlers of New Mexico" collection 2009 Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture(Cultureamerica) by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, University Press of Kansas, 12 photos from the "New Settlers of New Mexico" collection 2009 Exhibiton, “Last Look:The Photographs of Irwin Klein 1933-1974” DOMEISCHEL GALLERY LTD. 1361 Madison Ave. 4 D, at 95th St. New York, NY 10128 According to Irwin's 1970 Baldwin Street Gallery bio, his work has appeared in The Museum of Modern Art Calendar, Contemporary Photography (published by George Eastman House), M.I.T. Creative Photography Gallery ("The American Urban Middle Class"), Amherst College ("Photographer's Choice"), the Darkroom Gallery in NYC, and the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.