Brooks Institute
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| Motto | Passion. Vision. Excellence. |
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| Type | For Profit |
| Established | 1945 |
| President | Edward Clift |
| Provost | Victoria Liptak |
| Address | 5301 Ventura Ave, Ventura, CA 93001, Ventura and Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | www |
The Brooks Institute was an arts college centered on the visual and media arts based in Ventura, California. It was formerly known as the Brooks Institute of Photography, originally based in Montecito and Santa Barbara.
Brooks Institute was a for-profit higher education institution, that offered four majors and two graduate programs. The programs were: Bachelor of Arts in Professional Photography, Film and Video Production, Graphic Design, and Visual Journalism; and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Master of Science in Scientific and Technology Imaging. The college was owned by Gphomestay.
The college has consolidated and moved operations from Santa Barbara to the Ventura Campus.
The college announced it was closing on August 12, 2016. The last term was the summer 2016 semester.
Brooks Institute of Photography was founded in 1945 by Ernest H. Brooks, Sr. over a bakery on State Street in Santa Barbara, California. The school's first photography students were primarily World War II veterans supported by the G.I. Bill.
In 1952, the Brooks family purchased the former David Gray estate 'Graholm' after the owner at that time, Herschel McGraw, died. Ernest purchased the property for $61,000. The property was located on Alston Road in Montecito, a community adjacent to Santa Barbara. This served as the home of Brooks Institute of Photography, as well as for Ernest H. Brooks, Sr.'s growing family.
Ernest H. Brooks, Sr. stayed on as president of the school until 1971, when he became board chairperson. He died in 1990. His personal passion for underwater photography inspired the underwater still photography and video courses that started in the late 1960s, and continue to the present day.
At the time of his retirement as president, his son, Ernest H. Brooks, Jr. 'stepped into his father's shoes' and served as the school's president from 1971 until 1999. He continued to expand the Brooks Institute of Photography facilities.
In 1976 Brooks purchased the former Jefferson School in the Riviera neighborhood of Santa Barbara, that had been slated for demolition, and opened the Brooks Jefferson Campus.
Brooks Institute has been involved in many extraordinary projects in recent years, but this forward vision and involvement was happening even in the 1980s when the Institute was permitted to photograph the Shroud of Turin. Professor Vernon Miller, then head of the Industrial/Scientific program, led a team of photographers as they photographed the cloth for documentation and study.
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