Curriculum Vita
Christopher R. Harris
PO Box 28
Rockvale,TN 37153
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, National Football League, Minolta Camera Corporation, and more.
Fine art photography represented by A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans .
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:
“Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” Rick Bragg, Harper-Collins, New York, 2015 Creative
“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 Creative
“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
Journal Publications:
please note: publications are research and/or creative, as designated
“A Louisiana Portfolio,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2007,pp. 80-91 Creative
“I Was Binx Bolling,” Garden & Gun, Summer 2007, pp.42-43, Creative
“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:
“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 publication of the National Press Photographers Association, January, 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.
“Providing for the Future,”SixShooters, Region 6 publication of the 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:
2016 Detroit Museum of New Art, “Detroit Biennale,” Detroit, October, (Group Show)
2016 Van derPlas Gallery, “Anthology: 2016,”New York City, August, (Group Show
2014-15 Historic New Orleans Collection “Studio, Street, Self: Portrait Photographs from The Historic New Orleans Collection,”, New Orleans, December-February (Group Show)
2014 The MultiMedia Museum of Moscow, “Louisiana Photography,” Moscow, June 2014 (Group Show"
2013 Ogden Museum, “Louisiana Contemporary Photography,” New Orleans, July 2013 (Group Show)
2013 Houston Center for Photography, “31st Annual Members Juried Show,” Houston, July 2013 (Group Show)
2012 Ogden Muserum of Southern Art, “Currents,” November 2012, New Orleans, (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)
1985-87 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans Photography Fellowship Group Show; New Orleans (Exhibition)
1984 Arts Council of New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art; “Seldom Seen: Portraits from Private Collections,” group show (Exhibition)
1981 New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Annual Exhibit; New Orleans (Exhibition)
1980 A Gallery for Fine Photography, group show; New Orleans (Exhibition)
1980-82 New Orleans Museum of Art, Documentary Photography; two-year traveling exhibit in Central and South America, U.S.I.A. sponsor (Exhibition)
1979 New Orleans Museum of Art, Documentary Photography; two prints purchased for permanent collection, New Orleans (Exhibition)
1978 New Orleans Museum of Art, Biennial, New Orleans (Exhibition, Purchase Award)
1977 A Gallery for Fine Photography, One-Man Show; New Orleans (Exhibition)
1976 New Orleans Museum of Art, Biennial, New Orleans (Exhibition, Purchase Award)
1974 New Orleans Museum of Art, One-Man Show; “Natchez: A Pilgrimage” (Exhibition)
1971-74 National Football League Hall of Fame, Canton, OH (Exhibition)
1965 Lausanne, Switzerland (Exhibition, PhotoEurop)
1965 Paris, France (Exhibition, PhotoEurop)
1965 Brussels, Belgium (Exhibition, PhotoEurop)
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