Gretchen Garner (December 27, 1939 – February 15, 2017) was an American art historian, curator, writer, teacher and self-taught photographer.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Education
- 1.2 Career
- 1.3 Later life and death
- 1.4 Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal: Fanfare for the Common Man
- 1.5 An art history of ephemera: Gretchen Garner's catalog, photographs, 1976-1978
- 1.6 Gretchen Garner / Disappearing Witness Change in Twentieth-Century American
- 1.7 Center Quarterly Volume 10, Number 1, 1988
- 1.8 From the Most Distant Time
- 1.9 Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land
- 1.10 Exposure Volume 19:2 - Journal of the Society for Photographic Education
- 1.11 Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education: Volume 20, Number 1
- 1.12 Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education: Volume 19, Number 4
- 1.13 Six Ideas in Photography: A Celebration of Photography's Sesquicentennial 1839-1989
Biography
Education
Garner was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1965 and customary her BA in Art History. After graduating, Garner spent a year studying photography on her own bearing in mind her father’s 35mm camera. Between 1973–75, Garner studied photography at the School of Art institute in Chicago where she took her MFA.
Career
While operating as a photographer, photo editor, and literary Garner raised two children in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Garner worked as a press photographer at the Chicago Daily News. Garner taught Good arts photography and chronicles of photography at such universities as Grand Valley State College in Allendale, Michigan; Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, and the University of Connecticut, where she plus served as the Chair of the Art and Art History Department.
Later life and death
During Garners far ahead life, she continued to write scholarly articles, exhibition catalogs and books. Her last scrap book was Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal where Garner reawakens Reiss’ full-color images of the mosaic murals in the Cincinnati Union Terminal. In the 1980s, Garner was inspired by the countryside roughly speaking Chicago and which inspired her to take up outside photography. She later travel in this area the USA and Europe for a decade. Some of the landscapes Garner portrayed included Denmark, Sweden and France. During the 1980s she then served as the Head, Department of Art at the University of Connecticut from 1989-1992 and served as a Professor there until 1994. From there, Garner transferred to Moore College of Art and Design to become an Academic Dean until 1997. Garner was an addition professor as with ease as visiting player for The Ohio State University amid 2003–2007. From 2007–2017 Garner resided urge on to her house in Columbus, Ohio until she passed away at the age of 77.
Last update 2021-08-06