The Black and White Photography of Jack Kligerman
The Black and White Photography of Jack Kligerman is currently being featured in Renne Library's Heathcote Court at Montana State University.About the artist...
| Jack Kligerman is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of English at Lehman College, where he also taught courses in black and white photography and the History of Photography. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Syracuse University and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He has taught as well at Brixton College, London; Yunnan Teacher's University, Kunming, China; and the University of Paris. His field was originally American Literature, but over the years his interests shifted to the American Nature Essay and black and white photography.
Kligerman has written about American Literature, photography, and nature, and his photographs and essays have appeared in The Structurist (University of Saskatchewan), New Jersey Outdoors, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, Smithsonian, and a variety of academic journals. His 1978 book, A Fancy for Pigeons, included a large number of photographs, as did a textbook on composition, Invention, in 1973. Kligerman has also had several exhibitions of his nature photographs, at the Upstairs Gallery (Ithaca, NY), Valley Artisans Market (Cambridge, NY), and the Waltuch Gallery (Tenafly, NJ). In September 1996, he had a one-person exhibition of his Paris photographs at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY. He had two one-person shows at the Lehman College Art Gallery and participated in quite a few faculty exhibitions. His most recent exhibit was held at the Bozeman Public Library in the Fall of 2007. Having retired from Lehman College, CUNY, in February 2003, Kligerman currently lives in Bozeman, Montana. |
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From Yellowstone Public Radio: RealTime featuring Bill Bilverstone and Jack Kligerman
"Fine photography can be art or a social messenger. Bozeman photographers Bill Bilverstone and Jack Kligerman talk about their 30 plus years working to get that perfect image, whether it's a portrait of a homeless man in Bozeman or the cityscape of Paris."--YPR Archive
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