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Jim Schlessinger
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93 DANA
STREET, AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS 01002
Website: www.jimschlessinger.com
PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE
1990 to Present
- Photographer,
Amherst Camera Works, Amherst, MA -
Fine Art and Architectural photography
1979 to 83 - Royalston Camera Works, Inc., Royalston, MA
Fine Art photography and portraiture,
Museum collections publications and documentation.
Manufacturer of the Ugly Rumor and the Royal 220, custom-built
cameras designed for discerning photo journalists and artists
1976 to 78 - Photographer & Photography Teacher, Art Colloquium, Inc., and Canta Libra, Inc., Newburyport, MA
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Fine Art and Documentary photography.
Independent High School photography teacher
Board of Directors, Canta Libra School
1971 to 76 - Founding Staff Member & Photography Teacher,
Apeiron Photographic Workshops, Millerton, NY -
Fine Art photography teacher,
Officer and Board of Directors
MUSEUMS & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Fidelity Financial Services Corp., Boston, MA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Merrill Lynch, Pittsburgh, PA
Riverside Corp., Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND IMAGE-MAKING GRANTS:
2006:
Dakota Ridge Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA - "The Allegorical
Landscape" (solo)
2005: Grubbs Gallery, Williston Northampton School,
Easthampton, MA,
“Reflections & Manifestations” (solo)
2004: A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, “Landscape as Metaphor”
(solo)
1998: A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, “Double Takes” (solo)
1997: NACUL Gallery, Amherst, MA
1997: Burnett Gallery, Amherst, MA, “The Considered Landscape”
(solo)
1996: Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1995: New Art Center, Newton, MA, “Corporate Art Project”
1992: Katz & Dawgs Gallery, Columbus, OH,
“Artist-Model-Artist”
1982: Artful Hand Gallery, Orleans, MA (solo)
1978: Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence, MA
1977: Newburyport City Hall, Newburyport, MA (solo)
1977: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
"Eye of the West: Camera Vision & Cultural Consensus"
1976: Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
1975: Community Darkrooms Gallery, Syracuse, NY, presented by
Light Work
1975: NY State Historical Association, Multi-media
documentation Grant
1974: NY State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY,
Multi-media documentation Grant
1974: Goddard College, Plainfield, VT (solo)
1973: NY State Council on the Arts, Pilot project & Grant:
“Millerton: Past & Present”
1972: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, “The Country
and the City”
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