Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs - Hardcover

Liebling, Jerome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873513541 ISBN 13: 9780873513548

Publisher: Borealis Books, 1997

Synopsis

When photographer Jerome Liebling arrived in Minnesota from his native New York City in 1949, he was a young man of twenty-five launching what would be nationally recognized as a distinguished career in fine art photography.
Here, in 118 photographs, is portrayed Liebling's Minnesota. During two decades marked by social, political, and cultural change, Liebling traveled the state and found his largest subject—the depiction and interpretation of commonplace human experience.
The images range from the grain elevators and skid row of Minneapolis to the slaughterhouses of South St. Paul and the poor, working-class streets of St. Paul's West Side; from the Iron Range and the Red Lake Indian reservation in the north to the farming towns in the south.
The vision of Minnesota that emerges from these extraordinary photographs is uniquely that of the artist, yet it leads viewers effortlessly to an enhanced understanding of the place, the times, and, always, the people.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Photographs and comments by Jerome Liebling; Essay by Alan Trachtenberg

Jerome Liebling taught photography and film at the University of Minnesota from 1949 to 1969. He then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he founded a program in film and photography at Hampshire College. He has received two Guggenheim fellowships, exhibited internationally, and published extensively.

Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reading American Photographs: Images as History, from Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (1989; winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship in American art, 1990). In 1991 he received the International Center of Photography Writing Award.

About the Author:

Jerome Liebling and Alan Trachtenberg

About this edition

• Publisher: Borealis Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0873513541
• ISBN 13: 9780873513548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134