Memorial service for Jerome Liebling
Sunday, June 10, 2012, at 1 p.m.
Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center
Reception will follow in the Liebling Center

Click here for more information: http://www.hampshire.edu/news/Jerome-Liebling-Photography-Exhibition-Memorial.htm

Hampshire College invites the public to a tribute exhibition of Jerome Liebling photographs. Twenty-seven monumental images—many are over three feet wide—are on display in the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video on campus through November 8.

The photographs are from the last exhibition Liebling curated of his own work, a summer 2010 show, “Capturing the Human Spirit,” at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, N.H.

Renowned photographer Liebling teamed up with master printer Jonathan Singer of Boston, using digital printing techniques to create these exceptional images from black-and-white and color-film negatives dating from 1947 to 1996. Details and definition are revealed in the monumental photographs that were hidden in prints one quarter their size.

On Sunday, October 30, the life and work of Jerome Liebling will be celebrated at a public memorial service at 1 p.m. in Hampshire’s Robert Crown Center. A reception will follow in the Liebling Center.

Liebling, who passed away July 27 at age 87, was among the founding professors of Hampshire College. He joined the faculty in 1969, before the College opened in fall 1970, and taught at Hampshire until his retirement in 1990.

His name graces the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video—a centerpiece of the Hampshire College campus—because he was as gifted and influential as a teacher and mentor as he was as a photographer and filmmaker.

An event page has been set up on Facebook to enable friends and former students to share messages, information, and tributes with one another and with Liebling’s family  as part of his memorial. Facebook page >>

A number of other displays of his work are on view in the Five College area and nationally:

- The Mead Museum of Amherst College has a tribute exhibition through October 30 of nine Liebling photographs from their permanent collection. More >>

- Smith College’s Art Museum has a tribute exhibition of 20 Liebling works from their permanent collection. More >>

- The Emily Dickinson Museum plans to exhibit selections from Liebling’s work to coincide with celebration of the poet’s birthday in December. More >>

- The Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting Liebling works from their permanent collection. More >>

- Three Liebling photographs will show at The Jewish Museum in New York City as part of “The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951,” running November 4, 2011, through March 25, 2012. More >>

- Liebling will be included in a memorial tribute at the Lucie Awards celebration of master photographers at Lincoln Center Ross Theater on October 24. More >>

- Two Liebling photographs are part of a show at the Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, New York City, through October 26. More >>

For more information visit: http://www.hampshire.edu/news/in-memoriam-jerome-liebling.htm

Born in New York City on April 16th 1924, Liebling was the son of Morris and Sarah (Goodman) Liebling.  He was raised in Brooklyn the youngest of three boys.  His brothers David and Stanley pre-deceased him.  Liebling enlisted in the U.S. Army during WWII, served in the 82nd Airborne Division and saw combat in Europe and North Africa.  As a result of his military experiences, Liebling became staunchly anti-war.

After WWII, under the GI Bill, Liebling studied photography with Walter Rosenblum at Brooklyn College and filmmaking at the New School for Social Research.  In the late 1940s he was a member of the Photo League in New York City where he worked with the some of the most noted documentary photographers of the era.  The Photo League was a cooperative of photographers with common artistic and social sensibilities.  Throughout his life Liebling had a deep concern for social justice and human rights.

In 1949, Liebling established the film and photography program at the University of Minnesota. The same year, he married Phyllis Levine of Brooklyn, NY.  They later divorced.  In Minnesota he collaborated on several award winning documentary films with colleague Allen Downs.  In 1969, Liebling founded the Film and Photography program of then new Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.  He taught there for 20 years, inspiring a new generation of photographers and filmmakers.

Liebling is survived by his wife, Rebecca Nordstrom, and children: Madeline Liebling of Shelburne Falls, MA, Tina Liebling (Mark Liebow) of Rochester, MN, Adam Liebling of Cambridge, MA, Daniella Liebling  (James Lane) of Brooklyn, NY, Rachel Jane Liebling of Brooklyn, NY, and grandchildren: Gabriel Liebling Vigh, David Liebow, Hannah Liebow, Samuel Liebow, and Nathaniel Xavier Liebling.  A memorial service will be held in the fall.

June 19, 2010 – September 19, 2010

Manchester, New Hampshire

http://www.currier.org/upcomingexhibitions.aspx

Stay tuned for more details…

Where: Smith College Museum of Art

When: June 13 – August 12, 2008

Smith College Museum of Art
Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063
www.smith.edu/artmuseum

Where: Yale University Art Gallery

When: May 23 – September 7, 2008

Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street)
New Haven, CT 06520
www.yale.edu/artgallery

Exhibition features about 50 photographs by the artist exploring a wide variety of themes including social-documentary photographs of people and places, poetic images of the relics and physical remnants of literary figures and photographs of mannequins and corpses.

Where: The Howard Greenberg Gallery

When: June 15th through August 17th, 2007

Howard Greenberg Gallery
The Fuller Building
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1406
New York, NY 10022
212.334.0010
www.howardgreenberg.com

A special tribute to Jerome Liebling, hosted by Ken Burns, will be part of the Museum of Television & Radio’s seventh annual documentary festival in New York City. The tribute to Liebling on October 19 at 7 p.m. will include a panel with Liebling, Burns (72F), Karen Goodman (72F), Roger Sherman (73S), Kirk Simon (72F), Buddy Squires (74F), Amy Stechler (73F), and other special guests.

In addition to his own creative work as one of the nation’s finest still photographers and as a filmmaker, Jerry Liebling, professor emeritus, is revered at Hampshire College as a teacher of film and photography. Many alums of Hampshire say he was directly responsible for their own highly successful careers in photography and film.

The panel at this event will pay tribute to the man whose classes helped his students “see” the photograph, ultimately changing the direction of the American documentary in the eighties and beyond. A special treat: not only will the panelists speak about their years at Hampshire College in the seventies, but they will also screen their student films made for Professor Liebling.

Thirty-one years after graduating from Hampshire, Ken Burns says, “I still feel his influence daily.” Burns describes Florentine Films, which is celebrating its own thirtieth anniversary this year, as born out of the idea of Hampshire Films, a program established by Liebling to enable his students to show their work to the community and view themselves as professional filmmakers even as students. “This is an extremely special event,” Burns said, “I would encourage everyone within the Hampshire community who can attend to go and celebrate Jerry’s remarkable career and his positive influence over so many of our lives, both personally and professionally.”

There are three easy ways to order tickets: online at http://www.mtr.org ; by telephone at 212.621.6600 (dial 0 for operator) Monday through Friday from noon until 5 p.m.; or by visiting the Museum of Television & Radio (25 West 52 Street), where tickets for all events are available at the front desk.

Hampshire College

Amherst, MA 01002

Weekend activities to include:

• Photography exhibit highlighting recent work by Jerome Liebling

• Screening of the 2004 Alumni Reel

• 1970s-era student films and more

• Workshops facilitated by alumni

• Gala naming of The Jerome Liebling Center and announcement of expanded facilities for film, video, and photography

For more information contact Kimberlee Cook at 413.559.5574 or kbcook @ hampshire.edu