Biography

Robert A. Isaacs did a production with singer Tom Lehrer with the physics department at Harvard University. Robert Isaacs left Philco in 1966 to begin a career as a freelance photographer, and pursued this successfully for 40 years. He has published photos in Time and Life magazines, as well as many others. One of his best-known images (from "The Best of Life") is shown below. He has sung with a small madrigal group led by the legendary Robert Noyce (inventor of the integrated circuit), and (as part of the 100-member Schola Cantorum) with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Robert Isaacs was born in 1922 in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Physics from Harvard University and then worked as an applied mathematician for the Fulco Corporation in Philadelphia for over 14 years. After dabbling in photography throughout his life, Isaacs left Fulco in 1966 and moved to California where he worked as a part-time photographer for the Los Altos Town Crier. In 1967 he became a free-lance photographer, contracting with corporations, magazines, and various agencies. After residing in Sunnyvale for 45 years, he moved to Cupertino in 2003. His photographs have appeared in major magazines including Time Magazine, Life, Forbes Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and Business Week. This will be the first photograph by Isaacs to enter SJMA’s permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2003)

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