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Curriculum Vita
Professor Christopher R. Harris Department of Electronic Media Communication College of Mass Communication Middle Tennessee State University Bx X-010 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 615-898-2841 Last Updated: April, 2015
Education: MS 1991 University of Alabama, Journalism BFA 1969 Rochester Institute of Technology
Professional Experience: 1986-87: Director/Cinematographer-Morrison Productions, New Orleans, La. 1981-83: Photo Editor/Photographer-Gambit newspaper, New Orleans, La. 1977-79: Photo Editor/Photographer-Figaro newspaper, New Orleans, La. 1970-79: Photographer, New Orleans Saints N.F.L. team. 1970-72: Director of Photography, Living Magazine, New Orleans, La. 1969-to present: Freelance photographer, (See attached list of clients). Worf has primarily involved editorial photography, whether for commercial, advertising, industrial or editorial usage. Since 1969 over 2,000 assignments have been completed for major publications and corporations worldwide. Major photojournalism clients have been Time, Newsweek and the New YorkTimes. (Specialties in commercial photography include Annual Reports, Advertising, Architectural, and Commercial Industrial Photography.)
Major Clients:
Print:
Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, Discover, Sports Illustrated, Life, Esquire, People, Geo, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Venture, McCalls, Redbook, G.Q., Better Homes and Gardens, Portfolio, The New York Times, American Photographer, Associated Press, United Press International, Bunte, Stern, Der Spiegel, Epoca, Paris Match, Manchete, The Sunday Times of London, Time-Life Books, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Doubleday, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Gruner + Jahr, Prentice-Hall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and more.
Corporate: Shell Oil, Texaco, Conoco, Exxon, Chevron, IBM, Air France, Delta Airlines, Holiday Inns of America, Yamaha Motorcycles, Xerox Corp., CBS, NBC, ABC, Home Box Office, Bob Hope Enterprises, Ford Foundation, American Bar Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and more.
Photojournalism represented through offices worldwide by Gamma/Liaison Agency (now part of the Getty Images collection).
Stock photography represented in thirty-two countries by Painet Stock Agency and Super Stock International agenciey.
Fine art photography represented by A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans and Richter Gallery of Photography, Nashville.
Continued Intellectual Development in Area of Specialization, Including Refereed and Invited Presentations: *See research section for refereed papers and other documentation of continued intellectual development.
“Finding Images: Understanding Licensing and Using the Public Domain” Text and Academic Authors, National Convention, Las Vegas, NV, June, 2008
“Locating Photographs and Obtaining Permission Rights for use in Textbooks.” Text And Academic Authors, National Convention, St. Petersburg, Fl., April, 2004
"A report on Racial Diversity in Visual Journalists in the News Industry," Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, National Convention, Miami, FL, Aug. 2002. Invited Panelist, and presenter.
"A report on a survey dealing with the transition to digital technology in photojournalism programs accredited by ACEJMC," Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, National Convention, Washington, DC, Aug. 2001. Invited Panelist, and presenter.
"Ethical Dilemmas for the Visual Journalist," Society for News Design, Regional meeting, MTSU, Lecture and Presentation. April, 2001
"Ethical Dilemmas for the Visual Journalist," The Center for Practical Ethics, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. Lecture and presentation. Nov. 2000. Invited
“Photographing Tennessee Williams,” The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival/Scholars Conference, New Orleans. Photographic presentation and lecture. March, 2000. Invited.
“The Ethical Documentarian and New Technologies,” AEJMC National Convention, August1999, New Orleans. Visual Communication and History Divisions Teaching Panel Session: “Teaching Documentary Photography:Beyond Photojournalism.” Invited panelist.
“Through the Camera’s Eye: A One-Day Workshop for Print and Broadcast Photojournalists,” Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, FL, May 8, 1999. Panelist on “A Conversation About Trends in Photojournalism,” and panelist on “Hot Topics in Press Law and Ethics.” Invited
“Digital Imaging and the Future,” Honors Lecture, Middle Tennessee State University, November, 1998. Invited
“Digital Photography: Can You Believe What You See?” Exchange Club of Murfreesboro, TN, July, 1998. Invited
“The Lanham Act and Visual Communicators,” Copyright Society of the South, Nashville, TN, January 1997, presentor. Invited
“Digital Sampling—Law/Ethics,” International Television Association Education Symposium, Murfreesboro, TN, November, 1994, panelist. Invited
“Photographically Correct,” Center for Communication, New York, N.Y., October, 1994, panelist. Invited
“Photography in the Age of Computerization,” Journalism Day, College of Mass Communication, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN, September 1994. Invited
“Legal Protection for the Photographer in the Age of Computer-driven Digital Imagery,” Electronic Photojournalism Workshop 5, National Press Photographers Association, Fort Collins, CO, September, 1993, invited
“Copyright and Lanham Act in the Age of Digital Imagery,” Electronic Photojournalism Workshop 4, National Press Photographers Association, Colonial Williamsburg, VA., September, 1992, invited
“The Computer Manipulation and Creation of Video and Audio: Assessing the Downside,” presenter, The Annenberg Washington Program, Communications Policy Studies Northwestern University, Washington, D.C. December, 1991. Invited
“Legal and Ethical Concerns With Computerization of News Images,” Computer Seminar, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, October, 1991. Invited
“Protocol,” editor, presented at the Annual Convention of the National Press Photographers Association, Washington, July, 1991. Invited
“Mass Media Ethics in the Information Age,” Chaired Photojournalism panel on “New Directions in Photojournalism,” Association for Education in Journalism and Society of Professional Journalists joint conference, University of Alabama, March 1990. Invited
“Nightmares of Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age,” law paper, “Mass Media Ethics in the Information Age,” Association for Education in Journalism and Society of Professional Journalists joint conference, University of Alabama, March 1990. Invited
“Bridging the Morality Gap: Doing Newsroom Ethics,” Panelist, Society of Professional Journalists 1990 National Convention, Louisville, October, 1990. Invited.
Conferences:
“Through the Camera’s Eye: A One-Day Workshop for Print and Broadcast Photojournalists,” Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, FL, May 8, 1999, Panelist on “A conversation About Trends in Photojournalism,” and panelist on “Hot Topics in Press Law and Ethics.” Invited
“Photographically Correct,” Center for Communication, New York, N.Y., October, 1994, panelist. Invited
Electronic Photojournalism Workshop 5, National Press Photographers Association, Fort Collins, CO, September, 1993.
Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, Edition Four , National Press Photographers Association, Colonial Williamsburg, VA., September,1992.
Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, Edition Three, National Press Photographers Association, Tempe, Septimber, 1991
Photojournalism Ethics: Manipulating Reality, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, February, 1991
Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, Edition Two, National Press Photographers Association, Tempe, November, 1990
Digital ‘90, Electronic Imaging Conference, National Press Photographers Association, Washington, D.C., February, 1990
Research/Publication: Books:
“Visual Journalism,” with co-author Paul Martin Lester; (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, January, 2002).
“Protocol,” editor, Durham, N.C.: National Press Photographers Assn,1991.
“A Bullfrog at Cafe DuMonde,” with co-author Brod Bagert; New Orleans, La.:Julia House Publishing Co., 1986.
“Dulce’s Revenge,” (a novel) Philadelphia: Xlibris Press, 2000
Book side-bars and essays/photographs, photographs used in films:
“Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth,” Kali Films, Ltd., London, Priemier June, 2013, (will be shown on PBS nationally in Fall, 2013)
"Mississippians II," Nautilus Publishing, Oxford, MS 2012. Creative
"Walker Percy: A Documentary," Directed by Win Riley, Win Riley Films, New Orleans, 2011, Shown on PBS nationwide Fall, 2011
“Mississippians,” Nautilus Publishing, Oxford, MS, 2010. Creative
“Tennessee Williams and the South,” by Kenneth Holditch and Richard Leavitt, University Press of Mississippi, April, 2002. Creative
“Photojournalism,” in Media Culture by Richard Campbell; St. Martin’s Press, 2d., 3d and continuing editions 2000, 2002, 2003,2004,2005, 2007, 2009
"Photographic Perception: The Myth of the Thousand Words," Essay in instructor's manual for Harris and Lester's Visual Journalism A Guide for New Media Professionals, Boston:Allyn & Bacon, 2002
"The Dependent Abuser: Time-Life Strikes Again," Essay in instructor's manual for Harris and Lester's Visual Journalism A Guide for New Media Professionals, Boston:Allyn & Bacon, 2002
Article on Text and Academic Authors web site: "National Geographic called mean-spirited, short-sighted in e-rights appeal," September, 2001 http://taa.winona.msus.edu/TAA/BRIEFS/01/09sepAA.html
Journal Publications: please note: publications are research and/or creative, as designated
“A Louisiana Portfolio,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2007,pp. 80-91
“I Was Binx Bolling,” Garden & Gun, Summer 2007, pp.42-43
“The Illustrated American,”Visual Communication Quarterly, Winter 1999, November, 1999. Research
“Southern Quarterly,” Cover, Winter, 1999. Creative
“The Tennessee Williams Annual Review,” Cover, Vol.2, Nov. 1999. Creative
“A Decisive Moment in Bohemia: Photographing Tennessee Williams in New Orleans,” 4Tennessee Williams Literary Journal1,15-24,14, 30, 80, (Winter, 1997- released Summer, 1998). Research and Creative
“The Tennessee Williams Annual Review,” Premiere Issue, Cover, 1998. Creative
“Tennessee Williams in New Orleans, 1977,” 3Tennessee Williams Literary Journal 2, 4, (Fall, 1995). Creative
The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly XIII (1): Cover, 4, 1995. Creative
“Manipulation of Photographs and the Lanham Act,” 16Communication and The Law1, 31, (1994). Research
“The Halftone and American Magazine Reproduction 1880-1900,” 17History of Photography1, 77 (1993), Oxford, England. Research
“Effects of Perspective and Angle Manipulations in Portrait Photographs on the Attribution of Traits to Depicted Persons,” co-authored with Dolf Zillmann and Karla Schweitzer, MedienPsychologie, Jg.5 (1993), Heft 2, 103, Wiesbaden, Germany. Research
“Free-Lance Photojournalism in a Digital World: Copyright, Lanham Act and Droit Moral Considerations Plus a Sui Generis Solution,” co-authored with Don Tomlinson, 45 (U.C.L.A.) Federal Communications Law Journal 1,1 (1992). Research
“Digitization and Manipulation of News Photographs,” 6Journal of Mass Media Ethics3, 164 (1991). Research
Refereed Presentations:
“Photojournalism and New Technologies: A Loss of Veracity,” Southeast Colloquium, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Magazine Division, New Orleans, March, 1998. Refereed
“Free-Lance Photojournalism in a Digital World: Copyright, Lanham Act and Droit Moral Considerations Plus a Sui Generis Solution,” co-authored with Don Tomlinson, Southwest Symposium, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, October, 1992. Refereed
“The Lanham Act and Copyright: Application vis a vis Computer Manipulation of Photographic Imagery,” AEJMC national convention, refereed, Montreal Canada, August, 1992. Refereed
“Effects of Perspective and Angle Manipulations in Portrait Photographs on the Attribution of Traits to Depicted Persons,” co-authored with Dolf Zillmann and Karla Schweitzer, AEJMC national convention , Montreal Canada, August, 1992. Refereed
“The Halftone and Magazine Reproduction in the United States: From 1880-1900,” American Journalism Historians Annual Convention, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, October, 1990. Refereed
Trade Publications:
Many photographs per year are licensed for use in publications, books, and other media by my agents. While tear-sheets are not available, a full accounting of these sales is on hand for review.
“Tennessee Williams in New Orleans,“ Shots Magazine, Spring, 2013
Web Page Tools: Shareware Options,”SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, First Quarter, 1997, 28.
“Protocols: A Method for Ethical Decision Making,”SixShooters, Region 6 February, March, 1995, 13.
“Designing Your First Web Site,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photogaphers Association, September-October, 1994,9.
“Paying Homage in Natchez,” Reckon 1 (3): 62-63, 1995.
“Natchez: A Personal Pilgrimage,” Reckon 1 (3): 66-71, 1995.
“Fish Gotta Swim, But First...” Tennessee Wildlife, Jan.-Feb. 1994, 24-25.
National Press Photographers Association, September-October, 1994, 9.
“It’s the Ethics, Stupid!,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, July-August, 1994, 19.
“Software for the Mobile Computer,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, May-June, 1994, 23.
“What They Look For: An Examination of the NPPA TV Awards,” with co- author Larry Bradshaw SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, May-June, 1993, 16.
“Privacy: A Concern for Photographers,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, March-April, 1993, 25.
“An Overview of Copyright Law,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, January-February, 1993, 12.
“The Copyright Notice,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, November-December, 1992, 14.
“Why, When And How To Copyright A Photograph,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, September- October, 1992, 19.
“A Question of Law,” SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, July-August, 1992.
“Use of New Technologies Brings Need for New Contracts Outlining Rights,”News Photographer Magazine, March, 1992, 29.
“Ouch! Crunch go the players. Click go the cameras.,” Camera 35, November, 1970, 32-35.
Honors, Awards, Photographic Exhibitions:
2015 Middle Tennessee State University, College of Mass Communication, “Faculty Show,” May-September,Baldwin Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN (Group Show)
2015 Allegany Arts Council, Allegany National Photographic Competition & Exhibition, “Selections from the Competition,” April, 2015, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD (Referee Group Show)
2014-15 Historic New Orleans Collection, “Studio, Street, Self: Portrait Photographs from The Historic New Orleans Collection,” Dec. 2014-April 2015, New Orleans (Group Show)
2014 Multimedia Museum, “Louisiana Photographs,” Moscow, July 2014 (refereed show)
2013 Ogden Museum, “Louisiana Contemporary Photography,” New Orleans, July 2013 (Refereed Group Show)
2013 Houston Center for Photography, “31st Annual Members Juried Show,” Houston, July 2013 (Refereed Group Show)
2012 Ogden Muserum of Southern Art, “Currents,” November 2012, New Orleans, (Refereed Group Show) 2010 Esmond-Wright Gallery, “A Day with Tennessee Williams,” October 2010, Provincetown, Mass. (One man show)
2008 Richter Gallery, “Gallery Member Show,” October 2008, Nashville, TN (Group Exhibit)
2007 Barrister’s Gallery, “SuperNova Show,” October 2007, New Orleans (Exhibition)
2000 A Gallery for Fine Photography, “Twenty-Five Year Retrospective Show,” November 2000, New Orleans (Exhibition)
1997 Fido Gallery, “Christopher R. Harris: Photographs From a Bohemian Life” Retrospective Show, Nashville, January (Exhibition)
1996 Shooting Star Gallery, “Christopher R. Harris: Photographs From a Bohemian Life” Retrospective Show, New Orleans, November, (Exhibition)
1996 Shooting Star Gallery, “The Next Frame,” New Orleans, May, (Exhibition-Purchase)
1995 Maine Photographic Workshops, chosen as one of one hundred best photographers from over 1500 entrants, Rockport, Me.
1994 Historic New Orleans Collection, “The Last Frontier of Bohemia: Tennessee Williams in New Orleans,” New Orleans (Exhibition-- Purchase)
1993 Lowe Gallery, one man show, New Orleans (Exhibition)
1992 Middle Tennessee State University Photo Gallery, “Faculty Exhibit,” Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Exhibition)
1991 President’s Medal, National Press Photographers Association, “for meritous service to the organization,” July, 1991
1989 New Orleans Museum of Art, “Tennessee Williams in New Orleans,” New Orleans (Exhibition)
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