Eli Reed
Eli Reed ( * August 4, 1946 in Linden, New Jersey ) is an American photographer and member of Magnum Photos agency. The photojournalist came out at the same time as a documentary filmmaker and high school teacher.
Life and work
Reed studied graphics and illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, made in 1969 exam. 1982/83 he was a Nieman Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, which is part of Harvard University.
He began in 1970 as a freelance photojournalist. His work on Central America earned him the 1982 Nominatur for the Magnum agency in 1988 he became a full member.
During a long stay in Beirut 1983-87 he created a fotoessayistische long-term study, which was published as a book under the title Beirut, City of Regrets and brought much success. He documented the expulsion of Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti ( 1986), the intervention of U.S. forces in Panama ( 1989) and the " walled city " of Hong Kong. About the poor and homeless in the United States, he published in 1987 Homeless in America. His ongoing documentation of the situation of African Americans in the U.S. 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, as well as the Million Man March.
Reed was so interested in the topic of child poverty in the industrialized countries in their own country, that he turned in 1988 a documentary: America 's children: Poorest in the Land of Plenty. The explanatory texts contributed Maya Angelou at. He worked in the following years more frequently as a photographer for the big film companies. A screwed in video art documentary Getting Out ran in 1993 at the New York Film Festival and in 1996 was honored by the Black Film makers Hall of Fame International Film and Video Competition in the category of documentary. For this produced for Tokyo TV Film Reed led the Director.
Reed was a lecturer at New York's International Center of Photography and university professor at Columbia University, New York University and Harvard University. He is currently a professor of photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Awards
Pictorials
- Local Heroes Changing America, WW Norton & Company, USA 2000
- Black in America, WW Norton & Company, USA 1997
- Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style, Delta, USA 1993
- Beirut: City of Regrets, WW Norton & Company, USA 1988
- Homeless in America, 1987