Posted on Nov 9, 2001

Martin Benjamin, professor of visual arts, is showing eight photographs from his “Vietnam Shots, 1999” series in a group show – “Four Artists/Four Visions” – at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The exhibition runs through Dec. 10 at RPI's Shelnutt Gallery in the Student Union. He also showed photos from a term he led in Nanjing, China, in 1999 in a recent exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art titled “The Real and the Ideal: Fine Art Photography.” The Institute has acquired five of Benjamin's photos for its permanent collection. Also, 17 of Benjamin's “Rock Shots” photos are included in VH1's five-hour documentary, “VH1 Presents the 80's,” which premieres this week.