Exhibit One: Eight Massachusetts Photographers;
Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts
Street Kids, 1864–1977; New York Historical Society,
New York, New York
1981 American Children; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1982 Place: New England Perambulations; Addison Gallery of
American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Western Massachusetts in Color, A Survey; Springfield
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
1983 Light of Our Past, 1947–1974: Minnesota Photographic
Heritage; Film in the Cities Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
1984 American Photography 1960–1970; National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
1985 American Images 1945–1980; Barbican Art Gallery,
London, England
1986 Commitment to Vision; University of Oregon Gallery,
Eugene, Oregon
1994 American Politicians; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1995 Common Lives; Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht,
Groningen, the Netherlands
1996 Democratic Processes: American People and Politics;
pARTs Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and traveled to Hartnett Gallery, University of Roche-
ster, Rochester, New York
1997 Signs of Age; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,
Santa Barbara, California
1998 Metroscapes: The Gateway Photographs of Jerome Lie-
bling and Robert Wilcox/Suburban Landscapes of the Twin
Cities and Beyond; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2000 Photography in Boston: 1955–1985; DeCordova
Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2001 Photo League, New York 1936–1951; Mestre, Galleria
Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy
2002 Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke;
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley,
Massachusetts
This is the Photo League; Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus, Ohio
Selected Works
The Face of Minneapolis, 1966
Jerome Liebling: Photographs 1947–1977 (Untitled 15,
Friends of Photography), 1978
Jerome Liebling Photographs, 1982
The People, Yes: Photographs and Notes by Jerome Liebling,
1995
Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949–1969,
1997
The Dickinsons of Amherst, 2001Further Reading
Boxer, Sarah. ‘‘The Layers of Time Distilled Into a
Moment.’’The New York Times, 22 May 1998.
Burns, Ken. ‘‘Freedom of Thought: Jerome Liebling as
Teacher.’’ InThe People, Yes. New York: Aperture,
1995.
Cannon, Mary. ‘‘Focus on Fine Art: The Photography of
Jerome Liebling.’’Minnesota History51, no. 8 (Winter
1989).
Liebling, Jerome, ed. Massachusetts Review 19, no. 4
(December 1978); asPhotography: Current Perspectives.
Rochester, New York: Light Impressions, 1979.
Livingston, Jane.Jerome Liebling. Washington, DC: Cor-
coran Gallery of Art, 1980.
Richards, Jane. ‘‘Every one a hero.’’The Guardian(Lon-
don) 18 July 1995.
Rosenblum, Naomi. ‘‘Liebling, Jerome.’’ In Walsh, George,
Colin Naylor, and Michael Held, eds.Contemporary
Photographers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Trachtenberg, Alan. ‘‘How Little Do My Countrymen
Know.’’ Exh. cat. In Jerome Liebling Photographs.
1982, not paginated.
Tucker, Anne W., Clare Cass, and Stephen Daiter.This
Was The Photo League: Compassion and the Camera
from the Depression to the Cold War. Chicago: Stephen
Daiter Gallery, 2001.LIFE MAGAZINE
Life magazine began publication with the 23
November 1936 issue. It was the third in a string
of successful magazines developed by publisher
Henry Robinson Luce (b. 3 April 1898–d. 28 Feb-
ruary 1967), whose first two magazinesTimeand
Fortune began publication in 1923 and 1930,
respectively. Luce predicated his decision to start
a picture magazine on his growing belief that
photography could communicate the news, tell
stories, and elaborate on editorial points of view.
He recognized the rhetorical possibilities of photo-
graphy, noting that he wanted to, ‘‘edit pictures
into a coherent story—to make an effective mosaic
out of the fragmentary documents which pictures,LIEBLING, JEROME