About the Author
For the first twenty years of his photographic life, Charles Harbutt was a photojournalist, working mostly through Magnum Photos (of which he was twice president) for magazines in Europe, Japan and the United States. Since 1980, he has increasingly pursued more personal interests in photography. Two books and one monograph have been published of his work:
Progreso: Archive Pictures, 1986
Charles Harbutt: I Grandi Fotografi: Editoriale Fabbri, Milan, Italy: 1983
Travelog: MIT Press, 1974. Arles award: Best photographic book of 1974 His pictures have been widely collected and exhibited at (among others) the Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He is represented in New York by the Laurence Miller Gallery. His negatives, master prints and other archival material has been added to the collection of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. The Center contains the work of Garry Winogrand, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and W. Eugene Smith, among others.
He has been guest artist at the Rhode Island School of Design, MIT and the Art Institute of Chicago and taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, Pratt Institute, Bard College and in numerous workshops here and abroad.
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Charles Harbutt was born in Camden, New Jersey and became a photographer in Teaneck, New Jersey at thirteen. An internationally know photojournalist, his work is in such collections as the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Stedjlik Museum and the Corcoran Gallery. His first book, Travelog (MIT Press), won the Arles award as the best photographic book of 1974. In 1981, leaving Magnum, he helped start the international photo agency, Archive Pictures, Inc. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.
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Archive Pictures/University of New Mexico Press, New York / Albuquerque, NM, 1986
ISBN 10: 0961757507
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful copy signed by Harbutt. As is common with this title, it has been repurposed as "An Archives Pictures book". Labels affixed to the spine, front panel, and to the title page along with a rubber stamp to the rear free endpaper with the Library of Congress number and ISBNs for the hardcover and softcover. The dust jacket also has the "An Archives Pictures book" label affixed to the front panel and on the spine. There is some light bleed through from these labels. An uncommon book with beautiful black & white photos of the Yucatan. Signed by The Photographer. Book. Seller Inventory # 018202