Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene.

Visions of Passage. Text by James Enyeart. Numerous contributing photographers.

Arena Editions, Santa Fe, 2002. 288 pp., 118 duotone and 76 color illustrations, 9½x10¾".

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Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage is a major traveling exhibition, accompanied by a finely produced book, that reproduces images and writings by fifty of America's leading photographers and writers. The exhibition and book are the result of a five-year project known as the National Millennium Survey. The survey commissioned thirty-five prominent photographers and fifteen nationally recognized writers. Among the fifty artists are a large number of Guggenheim fellows, MacArthur fellows, and Pulitzer Prize winners.

The exhibition is devoted to reflections of American life and culture through the vision and interpretation of contemporary photographers and writers. The works in the book and exhibition were produced over the period 1995-2000. The photographic works include documentary series, installations, visual essays, and individual images. The writing includes essays, poetry, and narrative. Among the cultural touchstones represented by the artists are diversity, mobility, family, forces of tradition, ritual, the search for community, immigration, consumerism, the aged, and spiritual continuity.

Cosponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage travels through the year 2006.

James L. Enyeart is director of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe. He served as director of the George Eastman House, an international museum of photography and film, from 1989 to 1995 and as director of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona from 1977 to 1989. In the mid-1970s he was director of the Friends of Photography. Mr. Enyeart has received numerous international awards and honors, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Josef Sudek Medal from Czechoslovakia, the Photographic Society of Japan Achievement Award, and the Photokina Obelisk from Cologne, Germany. He is the author of a number of books published by Knopf, Little, Brown & Co., Schirmer/Mosel, and smaller presses. He is also a photographer; his work has been collected by the National Museum of American Art, the George Eastman House, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Sheldon Memorial Gallery, and other museums and private collections.

PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Shelby Lee Adams, Tina Barney, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, William Christenberry, Paul D'Amato, Judy Dater, Bruce Davidson, Terry Evans, Marion Faller, Donna Ferrato, Larry Fink, Gus Foster, Lee Friedlander, Miguel Gandert, Frank Gohlke, Alex Harris, Zig Jackson, Mark Klett, Mary Ellen Mark, Victor Masayesva,Jr., Susan Meiselas, Joan Myers, Barbara Norfleet, John Pfahl, Sylvia Plachy, Edward Ranney, Chris Rainier, Meridel Rubinstein, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Clarissa Sligh, Eliza Wells Smith, Joel Sternfeld, Catherine Wagner, Carrie Mae Weems
WRITERS:
Dick Allen, Jon Davis, Rick DeMarinis, Debra Earling, Martin Espada, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Linda Hogan, Denis Johnson, Ann Lauterbach, Carole Maso, Maureen McCoy, Arthur Sze, Charles Wright, Jay Wright

In 1995, James Enyeart, Director of the Marion Center for Photography at the College of Santa Fe, commissioned 35 photographers to produce work from then until the year 2000. This major travelling exhibition, which also includes the work of 20 writers, is currently on view at the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, and will circulate around the country over the next three years.

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