Interview with Stephen Marc Smith
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Stephen Marc Smith from Chicago, IL is an accomplished photographer and educator whose career spans more than four decades. A graduate of Pomona College, with a BA in Studio Art, and Columbia College Chicago with an MA in Photography, Stephen has held pivotal roles in photography education. At Columbia College Chicago, he served as the Photo Department advisor, director, and coordinator from 1978 to 1998. He then joined Arizona State University, where he served as a photography professor for 26 years, mentoring generations of new photography artists until he retired in 2024. As a photographer, His work focuses on the richness and diversity of the Black experience as celebrates identity and storytelling through photography. Length: 123:37. Transcript: 48 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, art, teaching, creativity, community, mentorship, Illinois, Chicago
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Coleman, Emonie, "Interview with Stephen Marc Smith" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 2.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/2
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.