Jerome Liebling - Photographer, Filmmaker and Teacher

Jerome Liebling: Seeing Real Things

Where: Smith College Museum of Artjerome_liebling_000

When: June 13 – August 12, 2008

Smith College Museum of Art
Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063
www.smith.edu/artmuseum

Everyday Monuments: The Photographs of Jerome Liebling

Where: Yale University Art Galleryjerome_liebling_014_000

When: May 23 – September 7, 2008

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street)
New Haven, CT 06520
www.yale.edu/artgallery

Exhibition features about 50 photographs by the artist exploring a wide variety of themes including social-documentary photographs of people and places, poetic images of the relics and physical remnants of literary figures and photographs of mannequins and corpses.

Jerome Liebling – Selected Photographs

Where: The Howard Greenberg Galleryjerome_liebling_019

When: June 15th through August 17th, 2007

Howard Greenberg Gallery
The Fuller Building
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1406
New York, NY 10022
212.334.0010
www.howardgreenberg.com

A Tribute to Jerome Liebling

October 19, 2006 – Museum of Television and Radio

A special tribute to Jerome Liebling, hosted by Ken Burns, will be part of the Museum of Television & Radio’s seventh annual documentary festival in New York City. The tribute to Liebling on October 19 at 7 p.m. will include a panel with Liebling, Burns (72F), Karen Goodman (72F), Roger Sherman (73S), Kirk Simon (72F), Buddy Squires (74F), Amy Stechler (73F), and other special guests.

In addition to his own creative work as one of the nation’s finest still photographers and as a filmmaker, Jerry Liebling, professor emeritus, is revered at Hampshire College as a teacher of film and photography. Many alums of Hampshire say he was directly responsible for their own highly successful careers in photography and film.

The panel at this event will pay tribute to the man whose classes helped his students “see” the photograph, ultimately changing the direction of the American documentary in the eighties and beyond. A special treat: not only will the panelists speak about their years at Hampshire College in the seventies, but they will also screen their student films made for Professor Liebling.

Thirty-one years after graduating from Hampshire, Ken Burns says, “I still feel his influence daily.” Burns describes Florentine Films, which is celebrating its own thirtieth anniversary this year, as born out of the idea of Hampshire Films, a program established by Liebling to enable his students to show their work to the community and view themselves as professional filmmakers even as students. “This is an extremely special event,” Burns said, “I would encourage everyone within the Hampshire community who can attend to go and celebrate Jerry’s remarkable career and his positive influence over so many of our lives, both personally and professionally.”

There are three easy ways to order tickets: online at http://www.mtr.org ; by telephone at 212.621.6600 (dial 0 for operator) Monday through Friday from noon until 5 p.m.; or by visiting the Museum of Television & Radio (25 West 52 Street), where tickets for all events are available at the front desk.

A Tribute to Professor Emeritus Jerome Liebling

Friday, April 23 — Saturday, April 24, 2004

Hampshire College

Amherst, MA 01002

Weekend activities to include:

  • Photography exhibit highlighting recent work by Jerome Liebling
  • Screening of the 2004 Alumni Reel
  • 1970s-era student films and more
  • Workshops facilitated by alumni
  • Gala naming of The Jerome Liebling Center and announcement of expanded facilities for film, video, and photography

For more information contact Kimberlee Cook at 413.559.5574 or kbcook @ hampshire.edu