Jack Lueders-Booth

Jack Lueders-Booth
Born
John Edward Cuneo

(1935-06-03) June 3, 1935 (age 91)
Boston, MA
EducationHarvard University, Ed.M., 1978
OccupationPhotographer
Employerself
StyleDocumentary
Websitewww.jacklueders-booth.com

Jack Lueders-Booth (born John Cuneo, June 3, 1935) is an American photographer. He retired from teaching at Harvard in 2000, and continues to live and work in the Boston area.

Early life

Lueders-Booth was born in Boston, MA on June 3, 1935. His father, Edward J. Booth, was a math professor and his mother, Marie G. Booth, a homemaker. Lueders-Booth is the oldest of six children, four girls and two boys. He was raised Catholic.

Lueders-Booth has lived in Boston, Ma. his entire life. After graduating high school, He began studying English at Harvard. Booth never finished his undergraduate degree, and instead began working for an insurance company, where he stayed for 15 years. Booth's interest in photography began when he was a young child, though this did not become a serious interest until he was 25.

Career

Teaching career

A self-taught documentary photographer, Jack Lueders-Booth left an office management company with Combined Insurance Company of America in 1970, at the age of 35, to pursue overriding interests in photography. Booth went to work for Harvard University as the manager of their photography teaching laboratory, and a year later began to also teach photography there.

In 1976, Booth took on a part-time study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, which he designed to be a photographic education, and he received his master's degree in 1978. He worked as a photography instructor in Harvard University’s Extension and Summer School’s until 1999. Booth also taught at The Maine Photographic Workshop, teaching both beginning and advanced documentary seminars. He served as a guest critic and lecturer at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston University, University of Colorado Boulder, Dartmouth College, Emerson College, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and Yale Graduate School of Art. In 1989, Booth was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, and in 1983-84 he was guest Artist-Teacher at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Ma. From 1983-1995, Booth received twelve Commendations for Distinguished Teaching, and three nominations for Harvard University’s Joseph P. Levenson Prize for Best Teacher of the Year.

In 2000, Booth semi-retired to adjunct faculty positions at (sequentially), The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Massachusetts College of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, and Lesley University College of Art and Design.

Photography

While working a full-time teaching schedule, Lueders-Booth pursued documentary projects at every opportunity. These included Chronic Disease and Custodial Patients - supported in part by a Harvard University Work Completion Grant from 1970-1973; The Salvation Army from 1974-1975; Camping Families in 1976; and Patmos, Greece in 1977. Booth photographed Women Prisoners, supported in part by fellowships from the NEA, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, The ‘Artists’ Foundation, and the Polaroid Foundation. Booth photographed the American Motorcycling Community and Culture from 1985–present. He also photographed Neighborhoods of the Orange Line, a branch of Boston’s public transportation system which runs through strongly segregated neighborhoods. This project was commissioned by Urbanarts and supported in total by group project grants from the Boston Arts Lottery, the Boston Globe Foundation, and the Rowland Foundation, and a personal grant from the Maine Photographic Workshops (1985-1987). Booth worked on a series of Cambridge Families Before gentrification, supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council in 1987; of Lowell Folklife, a personal commission from the U.S. Library of Congress to work as photographer with oral historians conducting a contemporary and historical social study of Lowell, Ma., its traces to nineteenth century mill culture, and the recent influx of Southeast Asians fleeing the turmoil in their homelands from 1987-1988; Cambodians in New England, a personal continuation of the Library of Congress commission for The Addison Gallery of American Art’s exhibition Shifting Cultures from 1990-1991; and Families who live in and off of the Dumps of Tijuana from 1991-1998. Booth also received a Humanitarian Award from The Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter, for volunteer fund-raising photography.

2000-present

After leaving his teaching position at Harvard University, Booth pursued his interest in photography full-time. From 2000-2006, Booth worked on the series The Last Corner Store, a shop near Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2005, Booth has photographed in and around Central Square, as well as at The Cantab and The Cantabridgean Lounge. This work has yet to be published.

Personal life

Booth has six adult children, Douglass (B.1957), Laura (B.1959), Gregory (B.1960), Peter (B.1968), Lucy Nguyen (B.1980), and Evie Lueders-Booth (B.1991). For fun, he plays darts, tennis, and races motorcycles. Booth lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Work and awards

Selected collections

Selected exhibitions

  • An Elevated View: The Orange Line at Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988, 2016
  • The Smithsonian (2012) (group "American Prisons")
  • The Small Works Show, Sacramento Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 23 - December 4, 2009
  • “Lueders-Booth Tuckerman” at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005
  • Our Town, The Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, NYC, 1993 (group)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994 (one person)
  • Photography Now, The Columbia College of Photography, Chicago Illinois, 1980 (group)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996 (one person)
  • John Lueders-Booth: Artist in Residence, The Hopkins Center of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1989 (one person)
  • Boston Now, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980 (group)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Maine Photographic Workshops, 1998 (one person)
  • Women Prisoners, Marion Art Center, Marion Massachusetts, 1980 (one person)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Massachusetts College of Art, 2006 (one person)
  • Recent Acquisitions (with Robert Frank), The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1988 (group)
  • Women Prisoners, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989 (one person)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Rhode Island School of Design, 2003 (one person)
  • Crossing the Frontier, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1996 (group)
  • The Library of Congress Lowell Folklife Project, The United States Senate Rotunda, Washington, District of Columbia, 1994 (one person)
  • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 1995 (one person)

Selected grants, fellowships, and awards

  • American Photography: Best Books of 2005
  • The Artists Foundation, Massachusetts (2)
  • Lucie Award
  • Bookbuilders of Boston
  • The Massachusetts Council for The Arts and Humanities (3)
  • The Maine Photographic Workshops
  • The National Endowment for the Arts
  • The National Endowment for The Humanities
  • Humanitarian Award, Pine Street Inn, Homeless Shelter (volunteer photography)
  • The Polaroid Foundation (2)
  • Urban Arts/Rowland Foundation
  • Nominated twice with Luis Alberto Urrea for The Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor Prize, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.

Publications

Books

Other Selected Publications

References

  1. ↑ PAULA SCHWARTZ (July 15, 2010). "Lucy Lueders-Booth and Duc Nguyen". New York Times.
  2. ↑ "John Lueders-Booth". Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Along theElevated: Photographs of the Orange Line". Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online. Digital Commonwealth. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. ↑ Schonauer, David (January–February 2006). "The Best Books of the Year". American Photo. American Photo Mag.
  5. ↑ Fourth Annual Lucie Awards. International Photography Awards. 2006. p. 55. ISBN 0-9778533-7-3.
  6. ↑ 2006 Bookbuilders of Boston. New England Book Show. 2006. p. 28-19.
  7. ↑ Lueders-Booth, Jack (1 May 2005). Inherit the Land. Pond Press. ISBN 097619550X.
  8. ↑ Alberto Urrea, Luis (January 1993). Across the Wire. Anchor. ISBN 0385425309.
  9. ↑ Alberto Urrea, Luis (September 1996). By the Lake of Sleeping Children. Anchor. ISBN 0385484194.
  10. ↑ The Human Condition. Graphis Inc. 1997. pp. 136–143. ISBN 1-888001-32-1.
  11. ↑ Alberto Urrea, Luis (1996). "Dompe Days". Double Take. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
  12. ↑ American Folklike Center: An Illustrated Guide. Library of Congress. 2003. pp. 39, 67, 77. ISBN 0-8444-1106-X.
  13. ↑ Lueders-Booth, Jack. New American Photography. Ed. Steven Klindt. Chicago: Columbia College, 1981. 48. Print.
  14. ↑ Swartz, Linda, and Pamela Worden. "The Artist's Lens: A Focus on Relocation." The Journal of Photography In New England 7.4 (1986): 27. Print.
  15. ↑ "John Lueders-Booth : Inside Stories." Aperture. Vol. 91. Millertown: Aperture, 1983. 80. Print.
  16. ↑ Wiggins, Marianne. "Like Silk." Our Town. Ed. Minor White. Vol. 127. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1992. 80. Print.
  17. ↑ Urrea, Luis Alberto. Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border. New York: Anchor : Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Group, 1993. 192. Print.
  18. ↑ Gohlke, Frank. Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews. Tucson: Hol Art, 2009. 208. Print.
  19. ↑ Schonauer, David. "The Best Books of the Year." American Photo 2006: 100. Print.
  20. ↑ Matthew, Nash. "Lueders-Booth & Tuckerman @ The Art Institute of Boston." Big Red & Shiny: Our Daily Red. Big Red & Shiny, 2005. Web.