Alex Harris Photography Presentation - Video

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Alex Harris is a photographer, writer, editor, and professor at Duke University where he has taught for over three decades. He is a graduate of Yale University and a founder of The Center for Documentary Studies and of DoubleTake Magazine. Harris is known particularly for his photographs of Eskimo villages in Alaska, the Hispanic Southwest, and Cuba. His photographic work is represented in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship and a Lyndhurst Prize. Harris has published twelve books, including River of Traps (1990) a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction, and most recently, The Idea of Cuba (2007). At Northern Virginia Community College's Woodbridge Campus, Harris talked about and showed images from many of his photographic projects, culminating with his most recent work in Cuba, and discussed what he has learned over the years as a documentary photographer.