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Alex Harris

Alex Harris

Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
alex.harris@duke.edu
Box 90802, Durham, NC 27708-0802
1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works

Photographs of Robert Coles at Work with Children and Elderly

Fine art · December 3, 2013 In US News and World Report ... Cite

MFAEDA Works In Progress Presentations 2013

Artistic production · December 2013 Cite

In Practice

Artistic production · September 27, 2013 Cite

Close to Home

Artistic production · August 18, 2013 Cite

Photographs of Robert Coles

Fine art · March 2013 Cite

Elderly and Undaunted

Fine art · March 2013 In New Choices ... Cite

Why We Are Here: Capturing the Spirit of Mobile Alabama

Journal article NPR PICTURE SHOW · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Book about Mobile Explores Why We Are Here

Journal article Tuscaloosa News · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Bull City Summer

Fine art · 2013 Cite

The Bunnen Collection of Photography

Artistic production · 2013 Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and The Spirit of A Southern City

Book · October 2012 Entranced by Edward O. Wilson’s mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson’s native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a c ... Cite

Cover to Cover

Journal article The Atlantic Magazine · September 2012 Featured Publication In this book, the great naturalist E. O. Wilson, who grew up in Mobile, and the photographer Alex Harris evoke and explore that exceptional city and its surroundings. ... Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

Journal article Harvard Magazine · September 2012 Featured Publication Naturalist Wilson’s memoir of his Alabama family and childhood, and of the downs and ups of his emotional home, is beautifully accompanied by the Duke documentary photographer’s images. ... Cite

Southern Spirit

Journal article The Mobile Bay Monthly · 2012 Featured Publication “Why We Are Here” presents Wilson’s introspective meditation on his local history, with accompanying color photographs, captions, and an eloquent short essay by Harris, who teaches at Duke University. Taken in toto, the book is these two men’s attempt to, ... Cite

The Time of our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer

Fine art · December 29, 2011 http://southerndocumentaryfund.org/projects/the-time-of-our-lives/ ... Link to item Cite

Les musés sont des mondes

Book · November 2011 Cite

The Art of Medicine: Samaritan House Free Clinic

Fine art · November 2011 Introduction by Marc Freedman. #2 in the Innovations publications series from Civic Venure ... Cite

Raising a Neighborhood: Hope Meadows

Fine art · November 2011 Introduction by Marc Freedman. #3 in the Innovations publications series from Civic Venutures. ... Cite

Cuba Through the Windshield

Journal article Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Pilgrimage to Katrina

Book section · November 2010 This is the first retrospective exhibition devoted to French Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972), visionary genius whose work deeply influenced American photography of the 1960 and 1970. Also presented for the first time in France, surrealist works of Claren ... Cite

New Mexico photographs

Book section · October 2010 Migration is a journey across America viewing this country through the eyes of our most astute observers, our finest photographers ... Cite

MLK Day and Inauguration Day 2009, Washington DC

Fine art · January 19, 2009 In response to the historic nature of Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009, I traveled to DC to photograph MLK day celebrations and the inauguration. The two resulting photographic series are dedicated to John Hope Franklin and posted on my webs ... Link to item Cite

Sunset Canto From River of Traps

Fine art · October 1, 2008 "Sunset Canto" originally appeared in River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, text by William deBuys, photographs by Alex Harris (Trinity University Press, 2008, 1990). It is reprinted with permission. All photographs are by Alex Harris. The photograph ... Link to item Cite

Backstory

Fine art · May 2008 Published in Popular Photography ... Cite

PDN Photo Annual 2008

Fine art · May 2008 In Photo District News ... Cite

Cuba

Fine art · February 2008 Vagent Magazine no. 2, Norway (Cover photograph for an issue of the magazine about contemporary Cuba.) ... Cite

Cuba Libre

Journal article Dutch Esquire · June 2007 Cite

Game Boy

Journal article Russian Esquire · May 2007 Cite

River of Traps: A Mountain Life

Book · 2007 http://tupress.trinity.edu/ ... Cite

The Idea of Cuba

Book · 2007 http://alex-harris.com/main/ ... Cite

Alex Harris Photographs of Cuba

Fine art · May 2006 Russian Esquire, pp. 162-175 ... Cite

Civic Ventures

Fine art · 2006 Cite

The Los Angeles Times

Fine art · 2006 Cite

Hope Photographs

Fine art · 2006 Cite

Ann Stewart Fine Art

Fine art · 2006 Cite

Duke Magazine

Fine art · 2006 Cite

AARP

Fine art · 2006 Cite

Life Begins at Sixty-Five

Journal article In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues · 2005 Cite

Engaging All Ages

Fine art · 2005 Duke Magazine (September-October 2005) (Three photographs reproduced and an article about US Senate Rotunda Exhibit.) ... Cite

Life Begins at Sixty-Five

Fine art · 2005 In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues, vol. 1 no. 2, pp. 66-77 (Photographs illustrating an article by Marc Freedman.) ... Cite

Outside the Ordinary

Journal article Aperture Magazine · 2004 Cite

Experience Corps: New Adventures in Service for Americans over 55,

Digital art · 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Website (Winter, 2004) (Ongoing interactive web exhibit of my photographs of Experience Corps Volunteers from New York, Boston, and San Francisco./ This web exhibit originally on the RWJF main page.) ... Cite

Blue Sky

Journal article · December 2003 Cite

Blue Sky #38

Fine art · December 2003 Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland Oregon ... Cite

Have Tools, Will Travel

Journal article Mother Jones Magazine · January 2003 Cite

Finding God in All Things: Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps

Fine art · 2003 Introduction by Marc Freedman, #6 in the Innovations publications series from Civic Ventures ... Cite

Giving Shelter: RV Care-A-Vanners

Fine art · April 1, 2002 Introduction by Marc Freedman, #4 in the Innovations publications series from Civic Ventures. ... Cite

Fostering Hope

Journal article Mother Jones Magazine · April 2002 Cite

Inside Cars

Journal article 2wice Magazine · 2002 Cite

Photographers, Writers, and The American Scene: Visions of Passage

Fine art · 2002 Arena Editions (One of thirty-five photographers and fifteen writers commissioned to participate in this book and traveling exhibition.) ... Cite

Visions and Voices of HIV Aids in Malawi, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe

Artistic production · 2002 introducatory text panel by Alex Harris, Kirk Felsman, and Alma Blount at the Council on Foundations Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 30, 2002, at European Council on Foundations Meeting, Belgium, July 2002, at the John Hope Franklin Center Duke University, ... Cite

Inside Cars

Fine art · 2002 Cover photograph and photos with article, 2wice Magaine, vol. 5 no. 2 ... Cite

Lessons for Life: Experience Corps

Fine art · November 2001 (Introduction by Marc Freeeman. #1 in the Innovations publication series from Civic Ventures in San Francisco, Ca. Innovations profiles the work of creative organizations that engage older Americans in ew and compelling ways to revitalize their communities ... Cite

HIV In Perspective: Photographs of HIV in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and North Carolina

Fine art · February 27, 2001 A Two part exhibition opening at the Duke Center for Medical Ethics and the Humanities and in March at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Introductory texts and didactic wall texts for both exhibits. ... Cite

Islas En El Tiempo

Book · September 2000 Cite

Customized: Art inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders, & American Car Culture

Artistic production · 2000 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (In association with a traveling exhibition.) ... Cite

Curriculum Resource Guide

Fine art · 1998 In Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego ... Cite

Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West

Fine art · June 1996 Published in association with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York edited by May Castleberry. ... Cite

Lectures, Photography Exhibit Explore Dislocation, Upheaval" by Robert Pincus

Fine art · 1996 A review of Transition/Dislocation a group show including twenty color photographs by Alex Harris of northern New Mexico, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio. ... Cite

Place Of The Pretend People, by Carolyn Kremers

Fine art · 1996 Cover photograph, Alaska Northwest Books ... Cite

Endpaper section photograph and text

Fine art · January 27, 1993 In The Chronicle of Higher Education ... Cite

Our Town

Fine art · 1992 For photographs with text by Richard Ford, Aperture #127 ... Cite

SLEEPING-BEAUTY - MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA - BURNS,SB

Journal article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · July 28, 1991 Link to item Cite

The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher

Journal article a book review for the New York Times Book Review · 1991 Cite

Art News

Fine art · April 1989 Cite

Alaska: Reflections of Land and Spirit

Fine art · 1989 Cover photograph and photo series entitled, "The Last and First Eskimos." ... Cite

Decatur County: Pual Kwilecki's Lifetime Document

Journal article San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly · July 1987 Cite

In the Street

Book · 1987 Cite

One Color Photograph

Fine art · January 1987 In New Mexico Magazine, seventy-fifth anniversary issue ... Cite

The Essential Landscape

Fine art · April 1985 (cover photograph and two full color reproductions, 14 halftone reproductions), University of New Mexico Press for the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM (Photographs by ten New Mexican photographers, with text by J.B. Jackson.) ... Cite

Cover Photograph

Fine art · 1985 Cite

Handbook of North American Indians

Fine art · 1985 In The Arctic, vol. 5 (1985), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. ... Cite

One photograph

Fine art · August 7, 1983 Cite

A Celebration of Grandfathers

Fine art · March 1983 Cite

The Last and First Eskimos

Book · October 1978 Cite

Aperture #81

Fine art · October 1978 Cover photograph and series of Eskimo photographs within the issue accompanying text by Robert Coles ... Cite

Nouvel Observateur/Social Photo

Fine art · June 1978 Accompanying text by George Bernard Shaw ... Cite

The American Poetry Review

Fine art · November 1977 (November-December 1977) (cover photograph and seven Eskimo photographs accompanying text by Robert Coles.) ... Cite

Twilight at the Taft

Fine art · 1971 In Yale Alumni magazine, photographic essay with text ... Cite

Who’s Idea of Cuba

Journal article ReVista Fall/2009 Featured Publication A review of my book The Idea of Cuba in in this quarterly publication of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard ... Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of A Southern City

Journal article Publisher’s Weekly Featured Publication Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist and Harvard professor Wilson (On Human Nature) and acclaimed photographer and Duke University professor Harris (River of Traps) team up to convey the spirit of Mobile, Ala., through text and images. ... Cite