Measuring Time
by Jeffrey A. Wolin
Jeffey A. Wolin is a celebrated and influential photographic artist and longtime head of Indiana University's photography department. Featuring one hundred works, this retrospective exhibition catalogue covers Wolin's entire career with key selections from all ten of his major series, including his earliest landscapes and portraits of stonecutters, Holocaust survivors, war veterans, and people experiencing homelessness. The sum of Wolin's creative achievement will be a surprise and inspiration to nearly every reader.His work is powerful and profoundly humane. Over the years, he has thought deeply about the issues of human history and memory, always attentive to the insights that come from personal storytelling. Best known for his innovative use of image/text combinations, Wolin has explored the living reality of history and the primacy of personal experience. His work is at once formally inventive and deeply empathetic and sympathetic. His pictures provide fresh and powerful insight i
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Jeffrey A. Wolin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus ofPhotography at Indiana University. Wolin's photographs have beenexhibited in over 100 exhibitions in the US and Europe, including soloshows at the Art Institute of Chicago, International Center ofPhotography in New York, George Eastman Museum in Rochester and theMuseum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and group exhibitions atMoMA, Whitney Museum, and LA County Museum of Art.His photographs are in the permanent collections ofnumerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; LosAngeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Cleveland Museum of Art;Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; New York PublicLibrary; George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Whitney Museum of AmericanArt, New York; Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris; and Museum ofModern Art, New York.Wolin's work is included in dozens of books including sixmonographs: Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust, ChronicleBooks, San Francisco; Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans,Umbrage Editions, New York; Pigeon Hill: Then & Now, Kehrer Verlag,Heidelberg & Berlin. Other publications include Swimmers, Aperture,New York; Waterproof, Editions Stemmle, Zurich; An American Century ofPhotography, Abrams, New York; Searching for Memory, Basic Books, NewYork; Common Ground, Merrell, London & New York; and Memoire desCamps, Editions Marval, Paris.Wolin is the recipient of two Visual Artist Fellowshipsfrom the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Heis represented by Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.
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