William G. Ericson Foundation

The William G. Ericson Foundation, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation was incorporated in 2017. Its purpose is to further photographic art education. The Foundation, in partnership with the Pasadena City College (“PCC”) Foundation, sponsors photographic art competitions at PCC and public high schools in the Pasadena City College District Area to provide awards to meritorious participants. These awards are in the form of scholarships for the study of photographic art. The Foundation has published the collected photographic works of William “Bill” Ericson and has had those works printed in a book titled WILLIAM ERICSON PHOTOGRAPHY - A RETROSPECTIVE. The images, curated by Ericson are presented in this book in various categories: Places; People; Things; Abstracts; and Commercial Photography. Almost all the photographs in this book were shot and printed by Ericson before the introduction of digital photography. He personally photo scanned his original prints for this book. His original in-progress cataloging system is preserved with his title or a file number to correspond with each image. He did not have the opportunity to title all the photos in this book.