Interview with Paul D'Amato
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Paul D’Amato was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned a BA in Art from Reed College, and an MFA in photography from Yale School of Art. In the 1980s, he served as a part-time faculty in the Photography department at Columbia College Chicago. From 1988 - 2001, he served as a full-time faculty member for the Photography department at Maine College of Art and in 2001, he returned to Columbia College Chicago as a professor. His work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. D’Amato’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions across the nation and he has received several awards and grants, including Illinois Arts Council Grant in 1989, 2005, and 2019. His latest exhibit, Midway, highlights communities and the moments of everyday life often overlooked. Length 104:52. Transcript: 39 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, art, teaching, creativity, community, Illinois, Chicago, Boston, Massachusetts, Maine
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Art and Design | Art Practice | Arts and Humanities | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Kebede, Yemima, "Interview with Paul D'Amato" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 10.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/10
Comments
The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.