HAROLD J. ADLER was born in Oakland, California, Harold is an independent curator, photographer, and videographer, who lives in Berkeley. His works are in the permanent collections of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Historical Society, the California State Library at Sacramento, California, the Corbis-Bettman Archives, in New York City, the Allen Ginsberg Trust in New York City , the Oakland Museum of California, and the Media Center at the Moffitt Library of UC Berkeley.

His website can be found at www.haroldadler.com

His pictures have appeared in many news publications: Californian Geology (Nov/Dec 1993, front cover); L.A. Weekly; Montclairion; The Daily Cal; The Daily Planet; East Bay Daily News; and Newsweek.

His photos were included in the PBS series, Making Sense of the Sixties, first broadcast on Jan. 21-23, 1990. Producer Varied Directions, Inc.

Exhibitions/Curations
"Firestorm, '91," (one man show), Oct. 1- Nov. 13, 1993. Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Bldg., Berkeley, CA
"RED Power: 30 Years of Native American Indian Activism in the Bay Area, 1969-1999," Nov. 19, 1999 , SF State University; Curator of photography and media coordinator.
"The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s," Sept. 16-Dec. 16, 2001, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. Co-curator and coordinator.
"California Counterculture: The Sixties—Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000" Los Angeles County Museum, Oct 22, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001. Curatorial consultant and participating photographer.
Free Speech Café, Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley, Curator, permanent installation and the following "Legacy of Social Protest" exhibits—
1. The Disability Rights Movement"
2. "The Creation of People's Park"
3. "Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement"
4. "'We Hold the Rock': An Exhibition of the Alcatraz Indian Occupation"
5. "La Causa: A Photographic Exhibition of the Farm Worker's Movement"
"What's Going On? : California and the Vietnam Era," Aug. 28, 2004-Feb. 27, 2005. Oakland Museum of California. Curatorial consultant and participating photographer.
"The Changing Face of Disability Law in the New Millennium," March 14-15, 2002, Boalt Disability Law Society, University of California-Berkeley, School of Law. Curator of photography.