Jerome Liebling

Jerome Liebling (April 16, 1924 – July 27, 2011) was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher.

He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League. In the same period, he became involved with motion-picture production and worked as a documentary filmmaker.

While a professor of film and photography at the University of Minnesota, Liebling began a longtime collaborative relationship with filmmaker Allen Downs; together they produced several award-winning documentaries, including Pow Wow, The Tree Is Dead, and The Old Men.

Liebling received numerous awards and grants, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Photographic Survey Grant, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Liebling was a professor emeritus of Hampshire College. He was the younger brother of David Liebling and Stan Liebling, and he is the father of five children, including Minnesota politician Tina Liebling and film director/producer Rachel Liebling.

External links

• Official Website
• Photographs by Jerome Liebling
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• 1997 Interview with Jerome Liebling
• 2011 Interview with Jerome Liebling
• Jerome Liebling at the Internet Movie Database
• Political Landscape: Jerome Liebling's Minnesota Capitol Photographs, 1956 - 1969
• Obituary, Daily Hampshire Gazette
• Obituary, Star Tribune
• Obituary, NY Times: Lens Blog
• Obituary, NY Times: Art & Design
• Obituary, The Boston Globe