Alex Harris was raised in the South and lives in Durham, North Carolina. He has photographed extensively in the American South, New Mexico, Alaska, and Cuba. He has recently completed a "Picturing the South" Commission from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to photograph on independent narrative movie sets across the South. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, and a Lyndhurst Prize.
His photographs have been exhibited in numerous museums including exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. As a photographer and editor, Harris has published eighteen books including River of Traps (with William deBuys) a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. His book, The Idea of Cuba, was co-published in September of 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.
A recent book is Why We Are Here, a collaboration with evolutionary biologist, E.O.Wilson, and in September of 2017 with Margaret Sartor he completed Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price.
His photographs have been exhibited in numerous museums including exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. As a photographer and editor, Harris has published eighteen books including River of Traps (with William deBuys) a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. His book, The Idea of Cuba, was co-published in September of 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.
A recent book is Why We Are Here, a collaboration with evolutionary biologist, E.O.Wilson, and in September of 2017 with Margaret Sartor he completed Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price.
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The Institute of Contemporary Art, "Customized: Art inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders, & American Car Culture."
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection Philadelphia, Pa.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, "As They See It: Georgia Photographers" Atlanta, Ga.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, Los Angeles, Ca.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum's Collection, Raleigh, NC.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, "Customized: Art inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders, & American Car Culture."
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection Philadelphia, Pa.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, "As They See It: Georgia Photographers" Atlanta, Ga.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, Los Angeles, Ca.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum's Collection, Raleigh, NC.
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