MICHAEL L. CARLEBACH PH.D.

Professor of Art History
PERSONAL

CURRENT ACADEMIC RANK: Professor

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT: Department of Art and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences

SECONDARY APPOINTMENT: Program in Journalism and Photography, School of Communication
Faculty Steering Committee, Program in American Studies

CITIZENSHIP: United States

HIGHER EDUCATION

Colgate University, 1963-1967, AB cum laud, honors in French and Political Science.
Florida State University, 1978-1979, MA 1980, American Studies.
Brown University, 1983-1985, MA 1984, PhD 1988, Program in American Civilization.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Miami
Instructor, 1973-78.
Assistant Professor, 1980-83, 1985-87.
Associate Professor, 1987-1995.
Tenured, May 1989.
Professor, 1995.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Miami Herald Staff Photographer 1969
The Village Post (Coconut Grove, FL)
Staff Photographer 1969-1972

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Michael Carlebach, The Origins of Photojournalism in America, 1839-1880. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Reprinted, Spring 1994.

Michael Carlebach and Eugene Provenzo, Jr., Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1993.

Michael Carlebach, American Photojournalism Comes of Age.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Michael Carlebach, Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, [September, 2002].

Work in Progress



Michael Carlebach, Making Pictures: George Bain and the First Photo Syndicate

Margot Ammidown and Michael Carlebach, Edens, Underworlds and Shrines.

Articles



"Gordon Parks: The Man and His Work," Miami: Francis Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, 1982.

"Stereography: An American View," in Versaci, Nancy and Tolnick, Judith, eds., Hanging Out. Stereographic Prints from the Collection of Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Providence: Bell Gallery, Brown University, 1984.

"Photojournalism," in Photojournalism in Dade County, 1976-1986,
Miami: Miami_Dade Community College, Francis Wolfson Gallery, 1986.

"Documentary and Propaganda: The Photographs of the FarmSecurity Administration," vol. 8 (Spring, 1988), Journal of Decorativeand Propaganda Arts, pp.6-25.

"Shooting Sitting Bull: Photography and the American Indian," Miami (University of Miami Alumni Magazine), Autumn, 1991.

"William Henry Jackson and the Florida Landscape," Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 23 (1998).

"American Photojournalism in the Nineteenth Century," in Margaret Blanchard, ed., History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.

Academic Papers, Conferences



American Studies Association, Miami Beach, October 1988, "Haitian Immigration and the Melting Pot Myth."

Southern Communication Association, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 1990, "The Mass Community Myth: The Interaction of Haitians with the Dominant Cultures in Miami."

Association for Education in Journalism, Minneapolis, August 1990, panel discussant, "Photojournalism Education: Beating a Dead Horse?"

Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 1991, "The Correspondent as Celebrity: Richard Harding Davis and the Spanish American War."

Association for Education in Journalism, Boston, August 1991, panelist: "Using Visual Evidence from the Past."

History of Photography Group in conjunction with the American Daguerreian Society, Sante Fe, New Mexico, October 1991, "Daguerreotypes and the Printed Page."

Association for Education in Journalism, Atlanta, August 1994, discussant, "Thinking Visually: From Photography to Movies to TV." [joint session: Visual Communication and History]

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, November 1995, "Reading News Pictures: Photojournalism at the Turn of the Century."

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, September 1997, "The Evolution and Meaning of Family Photographs."

Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, Chicago, Il, August 1997, "Photographic Morgues and the Historian."

Worcester, Massachusetts Art Museum,"Down With Stieglitz, Up With Capa," Symposium in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of Robert Capa, May 2000.

Association for Education in Journalism, Washington, D.C., August 2001, panel moderator, “Documentary and Redocumentary Photography.”

Published Photographs: Magazines and Newspapers



Time, Newsweek, People, U.S. News and World Report, Ebony, New York Times, Arizona Republic, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald, Business Week, Fortune, Better Homes and Gardens, Prism (American Medical Association), Topic (USIA), TV Guide, Medical Economics, Encyclopedia Britannica, Americana, American Heritage, Scholastic, Boy's Life, Tropic, Today, Modern Photography, Nikon World, Street Pharmacologist, Bunta (West Germany), Panorama (Netherlands), London Sunday Times Magazine, Book Digest, Today's Health, Viewpoint, Gaceta Illustrada (Spain), Miami Mensual, Miami Magazine, Horticulture, Ft. Lauderdale News, St. Petersburg Times, New Times (Miami), The Independent (London) Smithsonian, Modern Maturity.

Published Photographs (Books, Catalogues, Monographs)



Brett, Arlene and Provenzo, Eugene F. Jr., The Complete Block Book, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1983.

Brett, Arlene, Moore, Robin and Provenzo, Eugene, The Complete Playground Book, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Carlebach, Michael, American Studies, Miami: Miami_Dade Community College, 1983. (exhibition catalogue)

Michael Carlebach, This Way to the Crypt: Photographs of America. Daytona Beach: Southeast Museum of Photography, 1998. (exhibition catalogue)

McGovern, George, Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern, New York: Random House, 1977. (Inside photographs)

Weil, Gordon, The Long Shot, New York: Norton Publishers, 1975. (Cover and inside photographs)

Goran, Lester, The Bright Streets of Surfside. The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. (Inside photographs)

Willeford,Charles, Writing and Other Blood Sports, New York: Dennis McMillan Publishers, 2000. (End papers)

Exhibitions (Juried)



Miami Art Center, group show and competition, 1972; Art Guild of Boca Raton, Florida Artists Competition, 1972; Hortt Memorial Competition, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, 1973; World Invitational of Photography, Union Carbide Gallery, New York City, 1976, 1977; National Artists Alliance Exhibitions, Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, 1979_1982; World Exhibition of Photography, Berlin, West Germany, 1974; "Fifty Years of Change: Photography in Miami," South Dade Regional Library, October 1990; "Photo Work, '93," New Gallery, University of Miami, January 1993; Twentieth Anniversary Exhibi- tion, Art in Public Places Program, Miami International Airport, May-June 1993; "Our Families," Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, 1994; "Photo Work '94", New Gallery, University of Miami, January 1994; "...Worth a Thousand Words," Benham Studio Gallery, Seat-tle, Washington, September 1995; "Sheldon Lurie Art Against Aids Auction," Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson, October 1995; "The Gun as Image," Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, February-April 1997.

Exhibitions (Group and One Person Shows)



Dunbarton College, Washington, D.C., 1969; Gallery One, Miami, 1971; Permanent Exhibition of Florida Photographers in the Edward Jurrell Stone Legislative Building, Tallahassee, Florida; Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, 1975, one person show; Wm. M. Lyons Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, group show "Immigrants, Refugees, and Natives," 1981; Francis Wolfson Gallery, Miami_Dade Community College, group show "Florida Artists See Themselves," 1982; Francis Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami, "American Studies," one person show, 1983; Norwood House, Brown University, one person show, 1984; Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts, one person show, 1984; "Artists Choose Artists," Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, 1988; "Forced Out," (the plight of refugees) group show, Los Angeles Municipal Art Museum, September 1989; "Florida Landscape: The People," group show, Miami-Dade Public Library System, June-July 1991; "The First Annual South Florida Collective," Francis Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, February 1992; "American Studies," Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago de Chile, Chile, August 1997 (with Lelen Bourgoignie); "This Way to the Crypt," one person show, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, October-November 1997; one-person show, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida (June-September, 1998); one-person show, main library, Miami-Dade Public Library System, June-August 1999; “This Way to the Crypt, II,” Piedmont Art Center, Martinsberg, Virginia, April-May 2001; “Signage,” School of Architecture, University of Miami, April 2001.

Curatorial



Guest Curator, "Photojournalism in Dade County, 1976_1986," tenth anniversary exhibition, Francis Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, 1986.

Host and Organizer, "Contact: Photojournalism Since Vietnam," Miami-Dade Public Library System, August-September 1991

Exhibition Curator, "Forgotten Florida: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida," 1995-1996. Funded by a grant from the Museum of Florida History Trust Fund, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State in con-junction with the Southeast Museum of Photography.

"This Way to the Crypt," an exhibition on the website Fixing Shadows at the University of Virginia.

Curator, "The Wondrous Eye: Selections from the Lowe," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, October 1999-May 2000.

Co-Curator (with Maggie Steber of The Miami Herald), "Miami Press Photographers,” Miami: Historical Museum of Southern Florida, [September 2003].

HONORS AND AWARDS



Phi Beta Kappa (Colgate University, 1967; founding member, University of Miami chapter)

Phi Kappa Phi, 1998

Wilson Hicks Conference Award, University of Miami, 1977.

Freshman Teaching Award, 1989.

Certificate of Commendation, American Association of State and Local History, for Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida, 1994.

Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996.

Provost's Award for Scholarly Activity, 1998.

Best Book by a Local Author (New Times-Miami) for This Way to the Crypt, May 1999.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS



University Fellowship, Brown University, 1883-84.

Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Summer, 1986.

Summer Research Award, University of Miami, Summer 1990.

General Research Support Award, University of Miami, 1992.

School of Communication Research Award, Summer 1992.

Max Orovitz Award, University of Miami, Summer 1994.

Research Fellowship, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, December 1995.

General Research Support Award, 1999

Max Orovitz Award, University of Miami, Summer 2000.

Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL, summer 2000: with Margot Ammidown for work on "Mythic Landscapes: Edens, Underworlds, and Shrines."

Instructional Advancement Grant, University of Miami, 2001.

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