David Fahey, gallery director, has been a Fine Art Photography dealer in Los Angeles since 1975. With co-owner and partner, Randee Klein Devlin, he opened the Fahey/Klein Gallery, a spacious 3,800 square foot space, at 148 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, in May of 1987. The gallery's initial program included fine art photography, painting and sculpture by international, national and local artists. Since July of 1990, the Fahey/Klein Gallery has directed its attention to exclusively exhibiting rare, vintage and contemporary photography. In 1997, Ken Devlin, Randee Klein's husband, assumed her partnership with David Fahey at the Fahey/Klein Gallery.

The Fahey/Klein Gallery represents and/or has exhibited such notable photographers as Irving Penn, Horst P. Horst, Peter Beard, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joel-Peter Witkin, Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey, William Klein, Bruce Weber, Allen Ginsberg, Tina Modotti, and Edward Weston, Herb Ritts, Leni Riefenstahl, Steve Schapiro, Jim Marshall, Richard Gere, William Claxton, George Hurrell, Danny Lyon, Annie Leibovitz, Sabastião Salgado, and Melvin Sokolsky, among others.

The gallery exhibits two separate one-person exhibitions rotating every five weeks. Group exhibitions are occasionally curated.

The Fahey/Klein Gallery has an active and ongoing program of organizing exhibitions for its photographers in prominent museums and galleries worldwide. The Fahey/Klein Gallery curates and exports an average of 25 Fine Art Photography exhibitions per year.

David Fahey has packaged, coordinated and/or co-edited the following photography publications: Herb Ritts Pictures, Horst Form, Peter Beard Fifty Years of Portraits, Tom Baril Botanica, Jim Marshall Not Fade Away, Herb Ritts Notorious, Sante D'Orazio A Private View, Steve Schapiro American Edge, Matthew Rolston Big Pictures, Man Ray Cafe Man Ray Exhibition Catalogue, among others. Since 1986, he has coordinated or collaborated on the production of over 45 Fine Art Photography books.

As of 1998, David Fahey has introduced and exhibited over 500 artists in his career as a curator and gallery director. In 1988, he co-edited the Masters of Starlight publication, which chronicled the evolution of Hollywood portrait photography from 1917-1971. He also co-curated the "Master of Starlight," which was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

David Fahey has lectured on the history of photography as well as taught history of photography at UCLA and USC extension. He has also conducted over sixty interviews with selected internationally known Fine Art photographers.

From 1985 to 1988, he was a contributing West Coast editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. In 1983, he co-founded the Hollywood Photographers Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of great Hollywood portrait photography.

In the January/February 1994 and the May/June 1998 issues of American Photo, he was selected in both issues as number 20 of the "100 Most Important People in Photography."

He co-designed the installation of Herb Ritts Work exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The New York Times reported that the Herb Ritts Work exhibition at the MFA, Boston was one of "the 15 most heavily attended museum shows of 1997," attracting over 250,000 viewers.

In his 32 years in the field, David Fahey has served as a photography consultant for private and corporate art collections. During this period of time, he has sold or brokered over $75,000,000 of Fine Art Photography.

Since 1990, he has represented photographs by Richard Gere. David Fahey has curated international exhibitions of Mr. Gere's photographs to benefit the Gere Foundation. This Foundation was established to raise funds to benefit His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan community, and Human Rights Organizations.

David Fahey, Fahey/Klein Gallery is an active member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). He served in the United States Army Infantry in Vietnam, 1969-1970. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Photo-Communications in 1974 and a Masters degree in Art, with an emphasis in Creative Photography, from California State University at Fullerton in 1978.

He is the Vice-President of the Herb Ritts Foundation and serves on the Photography Advisory Council for the J. Paul Getty Museum.