Interview with Gregory Harris
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Gregory J. Harris is a photographer, curator, art historian, and exhibitor who currently serves as the High Museum of Art's Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He specializes in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. He has held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, served as assistant curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, and interned for the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Recent curatorial projects at the High Museum of Art include: Amy Elkins: Black is the Day, Black is the Night, Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography, and his collaborative projects include Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads, a joint exhibition with the High’s folk and self-taught art department. Length: 87:23. Transcript: 29 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, art, teaching, creativity, community, Atlanta, Georgia, 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
Wicks, Sarah, "Interview with Gregory Harris" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 9.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/9
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.