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Halsey Institute Of Contemporary Art
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (HICA or "the Halsey") is a non-profit, non-collecting contemporary art institute within the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. The HICA presents contemporary art exhibitions by emerging or mid-career artists. The Halsey is housed in the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts at 161 Calhoun Street, in the heart of downtown Charleston. The Halsey features two gallery spaces, the Deborah A. Chalsty Gallery and the South Gallery, which includes a total of 3,000 sq. feet in exhibition space. Mark Sloan was Director and Chief Curator of the Halsey from 1994 - 2020. Katie Hirsch became the director in April 2021. In addition to exhibitions, the Halsey presents a publishing program, visiting-artist lectures, an extensive membership program, a reference library, film screenings, and an educational outreach program. History The Halsey Institute was originally named the Halsey Gallery for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,277 at the 2020 census. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States. Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King CharlesII, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. It remained unincorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Calhoun And Chandra McCormick
Keith Calhoun (born January 1, 1955) and Chandra McCormick (born August 27, 1957) are American photographers from New Orleans, Louisiana. Calhoun moved to Los Angeles during his teenage years, where he attended Los Angeles Community College, working at KCET public radio station before returning to New Orleans to open a portrait studio. McComick and Calhoun met in 1978 when McCormick had her portrait made. Soon after, she became his apprentice, then collaborator and wife. Hurricane Katrina McCormick and Calhoun relocated temporarily to Houston during Hurricane Katrina, documenting the state of the refugee shelters while there. When they returned, their home was destroyed and almost two-thirds of their photographic archive had been damaged. The water shifted the color or cracked the film, creating an unintended artistic effect. The damaged images have been in the shows "Gone" and "Pitch White". In 2007 the couple opened a community arts center, called L9 Center for the Arts in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hung Liu
Hung Liu (劉虹) (17 February 1948 – 7 August 2021) was a Chinese Americans, Chinese-born American contemporary artist. She was predominantly a painter, but also worked with mixed-media and site-specific installation and was also one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States. A ten-year retrospective of Liu's work traveled nationally in the U.S. in 1998 and 1999. ''Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu'' was a retrospective collection of Liu's work with paintings from more than 40 collections displayed. Early life and work in China Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948. Shortly after her birth, her father was imprisoned for being a member of the Kuomintang, Kuomintang of China. In 1958, Hung Liu followed her aunt to Beijing at the age of 10 and entered the famous 北师大 女附中 (now Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University). In 1970, two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Long-bin
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Burk Uzzle
Burk Uzzle (August 4, 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American photojournalist, previously member of Magnum Photos and president from 1979 to 1980. Burk Uzzle (burkuzzle.com) has spent his life as a professional photographer. Initially grounded in documentary photography when he was the youngest contract photographer hired by Life magazine at age 23, his work continues to reflect the human condition. For sixteen years during the 1970s and 1980s, he was an active contributor to the evolution of Magnum and served as its President in 1979 and 1980. While affiliated with the cooperative, he produced the iconic and symbolic image of Woodstock (showing Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly hugging), helped people grasp an understanding of the assassination and funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and powerfully projects comprehension of what it means to be an outsider - from Cambodian war refugees to disenfranchised populations without voice or agency to portraits of communities not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Steinmetz
Mark Christopher Steinmetz (born 1961) is an American photographer. He makes black and white photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit". Steinmetz's work was shown in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1993/1994 and in solo exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in 2015, the High Museum of Art in 2018 and at Fotohof in Salzburg, Austria in 2019. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Life and work Steinmetz was born in New York City and raised in the Boston suburbs of Cambridge and Newton until he was 12. He then moved to the midwest before, aged 21, he went to study photography at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. He left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards (born 1944) is an American documentary photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has published many books of photography and has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Early life and education Richards was born and grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He received a BA in English from Northeastern University then studied photography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Minor White. Life and work During the 1960s, Richards was a civil rights activist and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer. His first book was ''Few Comforts or Surprises'' (1973), a depiction of rural poverty in Arkansas. His second book, the self-published ''Dorchester Days'' (1978), set in Dorchester, Massachusetts is "an angry, bitter book", both political and personal.Gerry Badger, in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, ''The Photobook: A History,'' vol. 2 (London: Phaidon, 2006; ), 30. Gerry Badge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Miller (photographer)
Greg Miller (born 1967) is an American photographer based in Connecticut. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. He is known for his use of a large format camera. Biography Miller was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1967. He started his commercial photography career in 1988. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1990 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography. His projects include photographs of county fairs, marching band camps, Ash Wednesday rites of New Yorkers in Midtown Manhattan and school children waiting for the morning bus in Connecticut. He is a teacher of photography in the International Center of Photography in New York City. Miller lives in Connecticut with his wife and daughters. Awards *2008: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Luster
Deborah Luster (born 1951) is a photographic artist from Northwest Arkansas, US, and has been a professional photographer since the 1990s. Luster has at least one book in print, ''One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana'', and is known for using older technology such as tintype to document and artistically portray violent crime and related topics. She is published and discussed in various international media such as ''The Economist'', educational sources such as the John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation, galleries such as the Jack Shainman Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Career and awards Luster jointly won a Lange-Taylor Prize in 2000 with C.D. Wright with whom she has worked as a duo for ''One Big Self''. Luster published a 64-page 17-inch hardcover book titled ''Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish'' in February 2011. This work focuses on the effect a high rate of homicide has in New Orleans and each piece has a journey throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Laub
Gillian Laub (April 24, 1975) is an American photographer and filmmaker, based in New York. Early life and education Laub was born in 1975 and raised in Chappaqua, New York. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in comparative literature before studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Publications *''Testimony''. New York: Aperture, 2007. . With essays by Ariella Azoulay and Raef Zreik. *''Southern Rites''. New York: Damiani, 2015. . *''Family Matters''. New York: Aperture, 2021. Photographs and text by Laub. . Exhibitions *''Gillian Laub: Family Matters'', International Center of Photography, New York, 2021 Films *''Southern Rites'' Collections *Harvard Art Museums The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Kranitz
Stacy Kranitz (born 7 March 1976) is an American photographer who works in the documentary tradition and lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She has made long-term personal projects about the Appalachian region and worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers. Kranitz's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Harvard Art Museums. Early life and education Kranitz was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. She earned a BA at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a MA at the University of California, Irvine. Career Since studying she has worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers such as ''National Geographic'', ''Vanity Fair'' and ''The Atlantic''. Since 2009 Kranitz has been documenting the Appalachian region of America, whose inhabitants have been typecast as "down-and-out or undignified". She "lives in Appalachia and creates images from her perspective as a parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston Gannaway
Preston Gannaway, an American photojournalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2008. Biography and career Gannaway, a native of North Carolina, grew up in an artistic family. Both her mother and her great-grandmother were artists. Halfway through college she decided she wanted to make the leap from drawing and painting to photography. In 2000, Gannaway graduated from Virginia Intermont College with a bachelor's degree in fine art photography. Her first job after college was at the 8,000 circulation '' Coalfield Progress'', a twice-a-week newspaper in rural southwest Virginia. In 2003 she started work at the ''Concord Monitor'' in New Hampshire. In 2008 she joined the staff of the ''Rocky Mountain News'' and later went on to ''The Virginian-Pilot''. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her partner Nicole Frugé. Since 2013 Gannaway has worked as an independent photographer. Awards Gannaway earned Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2008 for her pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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