Eli Reed (photographer)

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Eli Reed (born August 4, 1946 in Linden , New Jersey ) is an American photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency . The photojournalist emerged as both a documentary filmmaker and a university lecturer .

life and work

Reed studied graphics and illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts , graduating in 1969. In 1982/83 he became a Nieman Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, which is part of Harvard University .

He started out as a freelance photojournalist in 1970 . His work on Central America earned him the nomination for the Magnum agency in 1982, and in 1988 he became a full member.

During a long stay in Beirut 1983-87 he created a photo-essayistic long-term study, which was published as a book under the title Beirut, City of Regrets and was very successful. He documented the expulsion of Baby Doc Duvalier from Haiti (1986), the intervention of US troops in Panama (1989) and the "walled city" of Hong Kong . On the poor and homeless in the United States, he published Homeless in America in 1987 . His ongoing documentation of the plight of African Americans in the United States was also an outstanding achievement. The resulting book, Black in America, spans the period from the 1970s to the late 1990s. It shows footage of the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn 's Crown Heights district as well as the Million Man March 1995 in Washington, DC

Reed was so interested in the topic of child poverty in the developed world in his own country that he made a documentary in 1988 : America's Children: Poorest in the Land of Plenty . Maya Angelou contributed the explanatory texts. In the following years he worked more often as a photographer for the major film companies. His documentary Getting Out , shot using video technology , was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1993 and was awarded in 1996 by the Black Film-makers Hall of Fame International Film and Video Competition in the documentary category. Reed also directed this film, produced for Tokyo TV.

Reed has taught at the New York International Center of Photography and has taught at Columbia University , New York University, and Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin .

Awards

Illustrated books

  • Local Heroes Changing America , WW Norton & Company , USA 2000
  • Black in America , WW Norton & Company, USA 1997
  • Poetic Justice: Film Making South Central Style , Delta, USA 1993
  • Beirut: City of Regrets , WW Norton & Company, USA 1988
  • Homeless in America , 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Eli Reed in: "The way home: ending homelessness in America", by Jodi Cobb, Philip Brookman, Corcoran Gallery of Art, HN Abrams in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999, p. 151
  2. ↑ Reed's biography on the Magnum website
personal data
SURNAME Reed, Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden , New Jersey