Harris Fogel:  

Life Harris Fogel is the former Chairman of the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an Associate Professor of Photography, and Director of the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401. He is a documentary and fine art photographer with an extensive background in digital imaging, criticism, photojournalism, and photo history. His work utilizes various formats, including digital cameras, scanners, 8"x10" view cameras, 35mm, medium format , and digital video, with an emphasis on fine art printing. Some of Fogel’s projects include photographs from the set of the TV series The Wonder Years; portraiture; a series on Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens; the large-format color project A Few American Cultures; the nuclear-inspired Towards Trinity conceptual project; artists books; and digitally based work. Fogel maintains a substantial exhibition and lecture record, and his work can be found in the collections of numerous museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and his artist books are found in the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fogel is well known as a consultant to institutions and industry who seek his expertise ...Expand for more