Anthony Bannon
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Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House
, International Museum of Photography & Film, located in Rochester, N.Y., and has served in that position longer than any other director in the museum’s history. He has held that position since 1996, previously serving as director of the Burchfield-Penney Arts Center and director of Cultural Affairs on the campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo, both located in Buffalo, N.Y..
George Eastman House
is the world’s oldest museum of photography
and largest museum
of photography and film
. During Bannon’s tenure the museum launched three internationally renowned graduate and post-graduate schools of film and photograph preservation and conservation.
Dr. Bannon has lectured at museums, colleges, and festivals worldwide. He currently serves as chairman of the Lucie Awards/International Photography Awards and was awarded the Golden Career Award in 2007 by the FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging for his “far-reaching leadership and scholarship in the cultural community.”
at St. Bonaventure University
, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964. He earned a master’s degree in English
, with a concentration in criticism
and film in the Center for Media Study, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.
Bannon earned his Ph.D.
in 1994 from the State University of New York at Buffalo from the English Department, with a concentration in Culture Studies. His thesis was titled Robert Longo: A Practice of Art.
International Museum
of Photography
& Film
combines the world’s leading collections of photography and film with the stately pleasures of the Colonial Revival mansion
and gardens that Kodak founder George Eastman
called home from 1905 to 1932. Eastman is heralded as the father of popular photography
and motion picture film.
George Eastman House
, which opened to the public as a museum in 1949, has unparalleled collections — 400,000 photographs by 9,000 photographers, from the earliest daguerreotypes to the most recent digital images; 20,000 items of camera
technology; 30,000 motion picture titles and 3.5 million publicity stills and posters; and one of the world’s most comprehensive libraries of photographic books, manuscripts, and journals
. While preserving one of the richest historical collections, Eastman House also has as an aggressive acquisition program of contemporary works.
In modern archives and galleries adjacent to the National Historic Landmark
home and gardens, the museum offers world-leading programs in photograph and film preservation. These include the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, which offers a one-year certificate program as well as master’s degree in conjunction with the University of Rochester
; a master’s degree in Photograph Preservation and Collections Management with Toronto’s Ryerson University
; and a fellowship through the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation in collaboration with Image Permanence Institute of Rochester Institute of Technology
.
In 2009 the Eastman House will launch the Center for the Legacy of Photography as well as a photograph conservation wiki
.
Due to its leading preservation efforts, filmmakers who deposit their films at Eastman House include Martin Scorsese
(a personal collection of 8,000 titles), Spike Lee
, and Ken Burns
.
Comments about George Eastman House during Bannon’s tenure:
, a metropolitan
daily with a peak circulation of more than 400,000. He initially served as a theater and dance
critic
, and was a critic fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation and the American Dance Congress in 1969. Bannon later served as the newspaper’s film, video, and architecture
critic, finally concentrating on the fine and camera
arts
from 1977 through 1985. When a Sunday edition was initiated in 1977, he was appointed its art section editor
. Reflecting Buffalo
’s long-standing tradition of civic commitment to culture, the News encouraged Bannon to teach, to make films, to serve as a dramaturg for theater productions, and to organize exhibitions in the visual arts
.
For the next decade
, from 1985 to 1996, Bannon was with the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He served as director
of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center
, which is dedicated to the work and archives of Charles Burchfield (1893–1967), an American
watercolorist. The center holds the largest collection of Burchfield works, journals and ephemera. It also serves as a regional museum, collecting art, craft and design
by artists who have lived in Western New York State, including the largest collection of Roycroft
objects from the Arts and Crafts Movement
. The center is the repository of the Charles Rand Penney Collections. As a presenting organization, the Burchfield-Penney programs in all the visual arts, including architecture
, design
, film
, video
, craft
and folk art
, as well as literary arts and music
.
Bannon additionally held the position of the college’s assistant vice president and director for cultural affairs form 1994 to 1996. The Office of Cultural Affairs developed and advanced faculty, student and staff talent by locating, encouraging, assisting and presenting examples of intellectual and creative excellence from the College community. The objective of the office, established by Bannon, was to develop and sponsor collaborations across disciplines, often with organizations and individuals off campus, and to develop associations for the Foreign Exchange Program (particularly with the Latvian Academy of Fine Art and the Fachhochschule
in Dortmund, Germany). The office also organized the campus lecture
series, the college Summer School in the Arts at ArtPark, the college’s 125th Anniversary Celebration and the collaborations of the college Centers of Excellence.
Bannon’s teaching experience has included adjunct positions at Sierra Nevada College
in Nevada
; State University of New York College at Buffalo; Empire State College
in Buffalo; and Rochester Institute of Technology
.
specialist who works as a psychologist
for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. His son Nick is an administrator for the Texas School for the Deaf
in Austin, and his son Brendan is a photographer working in Africa
.
Bannon was born in Hanover, New Hampshire
, where his father, Dr. Robert Bannon, was a professor of physiological optics
and a member of the Dartmouth
Eye Institute, and his mother, Frances, was a nurse at Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
.
Public Relations Society of America, Rochester Chapter, 2008
Golden Career Award,
FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging, 2007
University Arts Award,
St. Bonaventure University, 2002
Outstanding Art Administrator of the Year,
The Buffalo Partnership (Chamber of Commerce) and the Arts Council of Buffalo & Erie County, 1995
Gallaudet College Award for Excellence in Writing About Deafness, 1985
Merit Award For The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo American Photographic Historical Society, 1982
Videospace Experiment Grant, With Ed Emshwiller and Bob O. Lehmann A New York State Arts Council grant, administered by Media Study/Buffalo and WNED-Public Television, to make “Positive/Negative Electronic Faces” (With Emshwiller) and “UB/More To Come” (With Lehmann), 1973–74
Bunis Award for Best Article in Western New York State Magazine, 1972
American Association of Commerce Publications Best Feature Story, 1970
: Findings, 2007
Critical Mass/Photolucida
Warheads: Photographs by Diane Bush, 2006
KuDaEditions, USA
Picturing Eden, Introduction, 2005
Steidl, Germany
Steve McCurry
(Phaidon 55s), 2005
Phaidon Press, London, United Kingdom
Ansel Adams
, 2003
Fundación Pedro Barrié de al Maza, A Coruña, Spain
Arcadia Revisited: Photographs by John Pfahl
, 1988, with Estelle Jussim
University of New Mexico Press
Grace Woodworth: Photographer Outside the Common Lines, 1984, with Mary Stanley
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
The Taking of Niagara: A History of the Falls in Photography, 1982
Media Study/Buffalo, New York
The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo, 1981
Media Study/Buffalo with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
, International Museum of Photography & Film, located in Rochester, N.Y., and has served in that position longer than any other director in the museum’s history. He has held that position since 1996, previously serving as director of the Burchfield-Penney Arts Center and director of Cultural Affairs on the campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo, both located in Buffalo, N.Y..
George Eastman House
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
is the world’s oldest museum of photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and largest museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
of photography and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
. During Bannon’s tenure the museum launched three internationally renowned graduate and post-graduate schools of film and photograph preservation and conservation.
Dr. Bannon has lectured at museums, colleges, and festivals worldwide. He currently serves as chairman of the Lucie Awards/International Photography Awards and was awarded the Golden Career Award in 2007 by the FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging for his “far-reaching leadership and scholarship in the cultural community.”
Education
Dr. Bannon studied biologyBiology
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at St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic university, located in Allegany, Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students....
, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964. He earned a master’s degree in English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, with a concentration in criticism
Criticism
Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another . To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault, but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice, or a disapproval.Another meaning of...
and film in the Center for Media Study, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.
Bannon earned his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in 1994 from the State University of New York at Buffalo from the English Department, with a concentration in Culture Studies. His thesis was titled Robert Longo: A Practice of Art.
Director of George Eastman House
George Eastman HouseGeorge Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
International Museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
of Photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
& Film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
combines the world’s leading collections of photography and film with the stately pleasures of the Colonial Revival mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
and gardens that Kodak founder George Eastman
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...
called home from 1905 to 1932. Eastman is heralded as the father of popular photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and motion picture film.
George Eastman House
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...
, which opened to the public as a museum in 1949, has unparalleled collections — 400,000 photographs by 9,000 photographers, from the earliest daguerreotypes to the most recent digital images; 20,000 items of camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
technology; 30,000 motion picture titles and 3.5 million publicity stills and posters; and one of the world’s most comprehensive libraries of photographic books, manuscripts, and journals
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
. While preserving one of the richest historical collections, Eastman House also has as an aggressive acquisition program of contemporary works.
In modern archives and galleries adjacent to the National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...
home and gardens, the museum offers world-leading programs in photograph and film preservation. These include the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, which offers a one-year certificate program as well as master’s degree in conjunction with the University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
; a master’s degree in Photograph Preservation and Collections Management with Toronto’s Ryerson University
Ryerson University
Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus is adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square located at the busiest intersection in Downtown Toronto. The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden...
; and a fellowship through the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation in collaboration with Image Permanence Institute of Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
.
In 2009 the Eastman House will launch the Center for the Legacy of Photography as well as a photograph conservation wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
.
Due to its leading preservation efforts, filmmakers who deposit their films at Eastman House include Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
(a personal collection of 8,000 titles), Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
, and Ken Burns
Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
.
Comments about George Eastman House during Bannon’s tenure:
“The nation’s leading photography museum.” —William Bulkeley, The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
“George Eastman House is at the forefront of what I consider to be one of the most important tasks of our time — the preservation of film as part of our national heritage.” — Martin Scorsese, filmmaker
“If you have never seen a classic photograph in the raw, you are missing a wonderful experience . . . the jaw-dropping, pulse-racing, imagination-capturing capital of it all is the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.” — John Owens, editor in chief, Popular Photography
“A national treasure . . . a first-rate modern museum that no lover of photography will want to miss.” — Susan Adams, senior editor, ForbesForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
“George Eastman House is among the holy places of cinema, where films are loved and preserved.” — Roger EbertRoger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...
, film criticCriticA critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
Early career
Bannon began his career as a journalist, working from 1969 to 1985 for The Buffalo NewsThe Buffalo News
The Buffalo News is the primary newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area, and the area's only daily newspaper. It is the only newspaper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.-History:...
, a metropolitan
Metropolitan area
The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...
daily with a peak circulation of more than 400,000. He initially served as a theater and dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
, and was a critic fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation and the American Dance Congress in 1969. Bannon later served as the newspaper’s film, video, and architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
critic, finally concentrating on the fine and camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
arts
ARts
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from 1977 through 1985. When a Sunday edition was initiated in 1977, he was appointed its art section editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
. Reflecting Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
’s long-standing tradition of civic commitment to culture, the News encouraged Bannon to teach, to make films, to serve as a dramaturg for theater productions, and to organize exhibitions in the visual arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
.
For the next decade
Decade
A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived from the Ancient Greek dekas which means ten. This etymology is sometime confused with the Latin decas and dies , which is not correct....
, from 1985 to 1996, Bannon was with the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He served as director
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
The Burchfield Penney Art Center is located on the campus of Buffalo State College and was founded in 1966. Dedicated to the art and vision of Charles E. Burchfield and distinguished artists of Buffalo, Niagara and Western New York...
, which is dedicated to the work and archives of Charles Burchfield (1893–1967), an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
watercolorist. The center holds the largest collection of Burchfield works, journals and ephemera. It also serves as a regional museum, collecting art, craft and design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
by artists who have lived in Western New York State, including the largest collection of Roycroft
Roycroft
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters...
objects from the Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
. The center is the repository of the Charles Rand Penney Collections. As a presenting organization, the Burchfield-Penney programs in all the visual arts, including architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, craft
Craft
A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.-Development from the past until...
and folk art
Folk art
Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic....
, as well as literary arts and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
.
Bannon additionally held the position of the college’s assistant vice president and director for cultural affairs form 1994 to 1996. The Office of Cultural Affairs developed and advanced faculty, student and staff talent by locating, encouraging, assisting and presenting examples of intellectual and creative excellence from the College community. The objective of the office, established by Bannon, was to develop and sponsor collaborations across disciplines, often with organizations and individuals off campus, and to develop associations for the Foreign Exchange Program (particularly with the Latvian Academy of Fine Art and the Fachhochschule
Fachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
in Dortmund, Germany). The office also organized the campus lecture
Lecture
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series, the college Summer School in the Arts at ArtPark, the college’s 125th Anniversary Celebration and the collaborations of the college Centers of Excellence.
Bannon’s teaching experience has included adjunct positions at Sierra Nevada College
Sierra Nevada College
Sierra Nevada College was founded in 1969 as a private, liberal arts university. It is located in Incline Village, Nevada, and is known for its programs in Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Entertainment Technology, English, Ski Business & Resort Management, and Teacher...
in Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
; State University of New York College at Buffalo; Empire State College
Empire State College
Empire State College, one of the thirteen arts and science colleges of the State University of New York, is a multi-site institution offering associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. It is primarily oriented towards the adult learner...
in Buffalo; and Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
.
Personal
Bannon is married to Elizabeth Stewart, an addictionSubstance dependence
The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not use the word addiction at all. It explains:...
specialist who works as a psychologist
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. His son Nick is an administrator for the Texas School for the Deaf
Texas School for the Deaf
Texas School for the Deaf is a state-operated primary and secondary school for deaf children in Austin, Texas. It was first opened in 1857 "in an old frame house, three log cabins, and a smokehouse." The school struggled under inadequate funding during the Civil War and its aftermath with the...
in Austin, and his son Brendan is a photographer working in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
.
Bannon was born in Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....
, where his father, Dr. Robert Bannon, was a professor of physiological optics
Optics
Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...
and a member of the Dartmouth
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
Eye Institute, and his mother, Frances, was a nurse at Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is New Hampshire's only academic medical center and is headquartered on a campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, New Hampshire....
.
Awards and Grants
CEO of the Year,Public Relations Society of America, Rochester Chapter, 2008
Golden Career Award,
FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging, 2007
University Arts Award,
St. Bonaventure University, 2002
Outstanding Art Administrator of the Year,
The Buffalo Partnership (Chamber of Commerce) and the Arts Council of Buffalo & Erie County, 1995
Gallaudet College Award for Excellence in Writing About Deafness, 1985
Merit Award For The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo American Photographic Historical Society, 1982
Videospace Experiment Grant, With Ed Emshwiller and Bob O. Lehmann A New York State Arts Council grant, administered by Media Study/Buffalo and WNED-Public Television, to make “Positive/Negative Electronic Faces” (With Emshwiller) and “UB/More To Come” (With Lehmann), 1973–74
Bunis Award for Best Article in Western New York State Magazine, 1972
American Association of Commerce Publications Best Feature Story, 1970
Publications
Hiroshi WatanabeHiroshi Watanabe (photographer)
is a California-based Japanese photographer.Born in Sapporo in 1951, Watanabe graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1975 and moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a production coordinator for Japanese television commercials and later co-founded a Japanese...
: Findings, 2007
Critical Mass/Photolucida
Warheads: Photographs by Diane Bush, 2006
KuDaEditions, USA
Picturing Eden, Introduction, 2005
Steidl, Germany
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist best known for his photograph, "Afghan Girl" that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine.-Early life:...
(Phaidon 55s), 2005
Phaidon Press, London, United Kingdom
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
, 2003
Fundación Pedro Barrié de al Maza, A Coruña, Spain
Arcadia Revisited: Photographs by John Pfahl
John Pfahl
John Pfahl is an American photographer. He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He taught at Rochester Institute of Technology from 1968 – 1983. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in the School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University in...
, 1988, with Estelle Jussim
University of New Mexico Press
Grace Woodworth: Photographer Outside the Common Lines, 1984, with Mary Stanley
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York
The Taking of Niagara: A History of the Falls in Photography, 1982
Media Study/Buffalo, New York
The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo, 1981
Media Study/Buffalo with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York