Artist Snapshot Resume *  Gary Mark Smith

 

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Studio Address: 1717 Illinois St., Lawrence, KS 66044  USA

Home Address: 1717 Illinois St., Lawrence, KS 66044  USA
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Gary Mark Smith
   
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*Education:

Master of Arts -- Photographic Arts: on a teaching fellowship provided by Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Bachelor of Science -- Journalism: photojournalism, news editorial, magazine layout and production. William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University Of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
 

Smith’s photographs and their commentaries are powerful and dramatic. Smith’s created a terrific piece of work with remarkable people in remarkable places.
 
    Virginia Mecklenburg
   
 Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture: Smithsonian National Museum of  
      American Art.

*Collections Include:

New Orleans Museum of Art: (Eight images from the Streets of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans portfolio).

Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Two images from the Lifetime Global Street Photography portfolio).

The Montserrat National Trust -- West Indies: (45 images from the Holdout Streets of the Montserrat Volcano Disaster and the Lifetime Global Street Photography portfolios).

Eutin (Germany) Municipal Art Collection: (Three images collected as part of the inaugural Lawrence, Kansas - Eutin, Germany Sister City union. One image from the Streets of Cold War Hot Spots portfolio and two very early images from the Lifetime Global Street Photography portfolio).

Jatari Campesino (Ecuador) Minga Archive: (25 images from the Streets of the Impoverished High Andes portfolio)
Lawrence (Kansas) Chamber of Commerce (Five images from the Streets of the Midwestern USA Flood of 1993 portfolio.
 

Nearly all (his) images are sympathetic toward their subjects, foregoing the aggressiveness and social satire of street photographer Garry Winogrand's oeuvre.  Whereas Winogrand remained an outsider on the street, Smith seems to resonate with the energy of the crowd (and) empathize with his subjects.
     James R. Hugunin
     The School of the Art Institute of Chicago  

*Books and Journals:

The Road to Hell: Making Heaven Out of Third Class Travel
(2009).In collaboration with Author Janet M. Cinelli.
A comprehensively field-tested travel guide. While it focuses on how to go anywhere cheaply, it is also an essential handbook for any novice traveler who wants to learn the secrets about how to learn to travel internationally for an entire lifetime.

Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes and Photographs From The Edge of Fury (1999, 2000, 2001, 2009) An Artist’s Account of the Volcano Holdouts of Salem, Montserrat. Issued on tape for the sight impaired in 2001 by Audio Reader; 2009 issued as a Kindle Edition.

Searching For Washington Square (2001). A collection of 145 early works – 1978-1998. Published by the Traver Foundation.


White With Foam
: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes, and Photographs from the Edge of World War III (September 10, 2001 to September 12, 2002) Published as an online book December 2007 and as a Kindle Edition June 2009

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