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CHARLES
HARBUTT is a photographer and full-time professor at Parsons
School of Design.
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
at the Beaubourg, the Bibliotheque Nationale and the Maison Europeene
de la Photographie in Paris. He is represented in New York by the Laurence
Miller Gallery. In 1997, his negatives, master prints & archives
were acquired for the collection of the Center for Creative Photography,
Tucson, Ariz. He mounted a large exhibition of his work at the Centro
de la Imagen in Mexico City in December 2000 and received the medal
of the City of Perpignan at his retrospective there in 2004.
Two books and one monograph have been published of his work:
Progreso:
Navarin Editeur, Paris, 1986 (English edition: Actuality Inc., NYC, 1987)
Charles Harbutt:
I Grandi Fotografi: Editoriale Fabbri, Milan, Italy: 1983
Travelog: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1974. Arles award: Best photographic book
of 1974
A third book,
Cuba Libre 1959, is scheduled for Fall 2005 by Trolley Press
He has been guest artist for a year each 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.
He
has directed several major documentary projects:
1) Magnum's Sixties Project, America in Crisis ( Holt, Rinehart
& Winston, NYC, 1969), which included the prize-winning film, America,
(Gold Medal, Atlanta International Film Festival, 1970) and the Picture
Bandit, a chance projection device shown at the Sao Paolo Biennale, 1970.
The exhibit toured New York, Milan and Prague.
2) New York City Planning Commission: The Plan for New York, (MIT Press,
1970) Consultant, Picture Editor and Chief Photographer, 1968-70
3) The Face of America, the official announcement exhibit of the US Bicentennial
Committee
His
curating includes:
Salford '80, England, overall director, plus individual curatorship of
American Photography 1930-1980
In Search of Photography, Lectures and exhibit, Hayward Gallery, MIT 1975.
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 pursued more personal interests.
Selected Exhibitions: One person exhibitions:
Pour l'Instant, Niort,
France, 2005
Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France 2004
Westwerk Gallery, Hamberg, Germany
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, Dreams and Memories, 2001
Cento de la Imagen, Mexico City & Oaxaca, Retrospectiva, 2000-2001
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz. - 1997 FotoAutoBio
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1995
Witkin Gallery, New York, 1987
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris: Mois de la Photographie, 1986
Artists' Space, New York, 1985 (Rothko Foundation Grant)
Salford '80, Salford, England, 1980
Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam, Holland, 1977
Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1976
Photographers' Gallery, London, England, 1975
Photogalerie, Paris, France, 1974
Il Diaframma, Milan, Italy, 1974
Imagewerks, Boston, Massachusetts, 1971
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1967
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Major Group Shows:
Philadelphia
Museum, Glorious Harvest (Michael Hoffman Memorial), 2004
The Collection
of the Center for Creative Photography, AIPAD, NYC, 1999
Museum of Modern Art Tour: American Photography 1890-1965: Berlin, Amsterdam,
Paris, London, Curated by Peter Galassi, (Catalog) - 1995-6
Museum of Modern Art: Gesture, New York 1994
Mexico City Museo del Arte & ICP: MEXICO: Through Foreign Eyes, 1993
(Catalog)
In Our Time, Magnum 40th Anniversary. Show: Paris, New York, Tokyo-1989-90
(Catalog)
ICP, New York: Master Photographs from the PFA, 1988
Barbican Art Gallery, London: American Images - 1945-1980 -1985
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France: La Photographie Creative, 1984
Palais Luxembourg, Paris, France: Paris, 1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York City: Mirrors and Windows, 1978
Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, Minn.: Kertesz/Harbutt: Sympathetic Explorations,
1978
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: Tusen och en Bild, 1978
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1978
Beaubourg Museum, Paris, France: Inaugural Show, 1977
Arts Council of Great Britain, Touring show: Other Eyes, 1976
Whitney Museum, New York City: Photography in America, 1974
National Collection of Fine Arts, Wash., D.C.: Sao Paolo Biennale, 1970:
The Picture Bandit, a chance projection device.
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York: Photography in the Twentieth
Century, 1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York City: The Picture Essay, 1965
Books, Catalogs, Monographs:
Progreso:
Navarin Editeur, Paris: 1986
Charles Harbutt: I Grandi Fotografi: Editoriale Fabbri, Milan, Italy:
1983
Kertesz & Harbutt: Sympathetic Explorations: The Plains Art Museum,
Moorhead, Minn.
Edited by Joan Liftin with critical essay by Andy Grundberg - 1978
Travelog: MIT Press, 1974. Arles award: Best photographic book of 1974
The Plan for New York, NYC Planning Commission, Picture editor and photographer
(MIT Press, 1970)
America in Crisis: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NYC, 1969 Editor (with
Lee Jones) and photographer
Articles by:
Signs
and Relics, by Sylvia Plachy, Aperture 2001
Kertesz, The Manchester Collection Festschrift, 1985 (England)
The Harbutt Workshops: Modern Photography, Feb-May 1978
The Unconcerned Photographer, Album #9, 1970 (England)
The Multi-Level Picture Story, Contemporary Photographer: 1965
Articles about, Reviews:
Reporter
des Formes, by Jean-Claude Lemagny, Le Monde, Paris: Oct. 30, 1986
Currents in Photography Today: Julia Scully and Andy Grundberg, Modern
Photography, July 1979
Films:
Guy's
Song: 1970, 12 minutes
America: 1969, 8 minutes (Gold Medal, Atlanta International Film Festival,
1970)
Curating:
American
Photography 1930-1980, Salford '80, England
In Search of Photography, Lectures and exhibit, Hayward Gallery, MIT 1975
America in Crisis, Riverside Museum, NYC - 1969 - The impact of four different
media
on a single body of photographs from Magnum. Also: Sicof, Milan and Prague
1971
Grants:
NY
State Council on the Arts - 1973 - Catalog: Exposure
Mark Rothko Foundation - Exhibition Grant 1985 "for mature
artists working for many years, outside of current trends"
