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  • Comment: "In characterizing his own work, he states that: [...]" "In summing up his current work he states: [...]" We're little interested in how he characterizes or sums up his work. What we want to know is how other reliable, published sources, independent of him, characterize it or sum it up.
    Bluestar399 response to comments - see below notes for section details. Efforts have been made to remove overly personalized text and add independent sources.
    There's much about little. For example: "Between 1998 and 2000 [he] produced and [directed] an ethnohistoric film titled A Forgotten Place.[reference] The subject of the film was the Robinson Rock House Ruin and Plantation Site at the Reedy Creek Park, which had been the focus of his undergraduate archaeology work. The film was premiered in 2000 at the Charlotte Museum of History.[reference] The film screened at two film festivals - the 2003 Kineon 5th International Festival of Archaeological Film, Brussels, Belgium, and the 2004 Archaeology Channel[reference], International Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon." Okay, but what was said about it? Presumably critics saw it; what were their comments?
    Bluestar399 response to comments - The comment "much about little" is a trivialization of academia and ignores the value of the film as a teaching tool. Archaeological and ethnographic films are largely academic and don't enjoy the same type of public forum as traditional film festivals. Since 2000 Carr's film has purchased by a variety of college libraries and anthropology departments for educational purposes and continues to be hosted online by The Archaeology Channel. Editing changes were made to better contextualize this item.
    We read that "In 2004 he was invited to exhibit his photographic work at the Center of Southwest Studies [reference], Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado." The reference is to swcenter.fortlewis.edu. Unsurprisingly, this doesn't mention Carr. Link to a page that backs up the claim that in 2004 he was invited to exhibit his photographic work at the Center of Southwest Studies. (References are not used for "and if you'd like to find out a little about this place, click here".) And this (non-) reference isn't a fluke: I notice some other, similar links.
    Bluestar399 response to comments- The Center of Southwest Studies has added the 2004 exhibit to the "Past Exhibitions" section of their website. It had been accidentally left off the list. Again, web references from early 2000s events are spotty at best. In this case, it's been corrected.
    The draft refers to Carr both as "Carr" and, chummily, as "Thomas". To us, he's "Carr", or anyway he is once he's an adult.
    Bluestar399 response to comments- All references to Thomas have been replaced by Carr.
    I have clicked on very few of the references, but as I quickly look at their titles I don't notice any that are obviously devoted to Carr. It's not clear that he satisfies any of WP:PROF, WP:ARTIST, or WP:PERSON. He must satisfy one of these. On this draft's talk page, please point out which of the three he satisfies (he only has to satisfy one), and how he does so. -- Hoary (talk) 08:11, 20 February 2022 (UTC) -- amended 08:32, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
    Bluestar399 response to comments- I was originally unclear on the use of a citation vs hyperlink and when to correctly use each. I have a clearer understanding.
    All of the revised citations shown are directly related to Carr's work and contributions. Some of them are pre-internet and only available in hard copy at various archives. To better meet the requirement listed for inclusion in Wikipedia, I have added several items for contributions that have internet compatible citations. They include:
    1. Citation of the "Thomas Carr Photography Collection" at the Western History and Genealogy Department at the Denver Public Library. Note: there was already a review of the associated exhibition in 5280 Magazine with a link provided.
    2. A link to the 2004 "PRESENCE WITHIN ABANDONMENT" exhibition at the Center of Southwest Studies".
    3. A link to the 2020 "TRACES OF HOME" exhibition at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. Note: this exhibition was featured in Denver Westword magazine with a link provided.
    In addition to these new citations, I have clarified many of the others.


Thomas Carr (born July 17, 1964) is an American archaeologist and photographer who has studied the intersection of anthropology and art with an emphasis on the abandonment of human built environments in the natural landscape. His academic work has been published in journals such as Archaeological Prospection[1] and Colorado Heritage Magazine[2]. He has also lectured extensively on archaeology, photography, visual ethnography, and historic preservation. His photographic work in the Rocky Mountains region is most recognized and has been the subject of several major exhibitions and numerous group and juried exhibitions over the last 30 years.[3][4] The Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library holds a collection of Carr's photographs in its permanent archives.[5]

Early life and education

Thomas Lee Carr was born on July 17, 1964, in Toledo, Ohio to Thomas Foster Carr and Marion Lee Carr. The family lived in several places before finally settling in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1974. In 1979 Carr joined the Light Factory, a photographic arts education organization in Charlotte. In 1981 and 1982 a number of early works were exhibited in Scholastic Arts exhibitions and he received several Gold Key awards and a nomination for the Kodak Medallion of Excellence. In 1982 Carr was recognized by the National Endowment for Advancement in the Arts (dbi YoungArts) as a Promising Young Artist in Visual Arts. From 1984 to 1992 Carr attended undergraduate college at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and studied photography and anthropology. During this time, he participated in numerous photography exhibitions and held his first solo exhibition in 1984 titled Winter Scenes from McAlpine Park at the Queens College (now Queens University of Charlotte). A profile of Carr and his photographic work was the subject of a feature article in the spring 1985 edition of Sanskrit Magazine.[6] . From 1993 to 1996 Carr attended graduate college at the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned a Master of Arts in Anthropology. Carr's MA these was published in 1996 in the international peer review journal Archaeological Prospection[1]. The results of the research received national and international press coverage including articles in the Denver Post[7], Earth Magazine[8], and the Christian Science Monitor.[9]

Professional career

After receiving a master's degree, Carr worked on a variety of archaeological projects in Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah. He also served as the instructor of record for courses in North American Archaeology and Archaeological Methods at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Between 1998 and 2000 produced and directed an ethnohistoric film titled A Forgotten Place. The subject of the film was the Robinson Rock House Ruin and Plantation Site at the Reedy Creek Park, with an emphasis on understanding the process by which historic places are abandoned and rediscovered. The film was premiered in 2000 at the Charlotte Museum of History.[10] The film was subsequently screened at two film festivals - the 2003 Kineon 5th International Festival of Archaeological Film, Brussels, Belgium, and in 2004 at the Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon. The film was also purchased by a number of university libraries and anthropology departments for educational purposes. The film continues to be hosted by The Archaeology Channel's web-streaming site.[11]

From 2001 to 2015 Carr worked as a staff archaeologist with State Historical Society of Colorado (dba History Colorado). During this time, he worked on a number of archaeological projects and continued to photograph significant historical places and natural landscapes. Around 2002 he joined the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, Colorado, where he served as a board member from 2006 to 2008. In 2003 he was invited to write an article for Colorado Heritage Magazine about the common histories of archaeology and photography[2]. The magazine also featured a portfolio of his photography. In 2004 he was invited to exhibit his photographic work at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. The exhibit was titled Presence Within Abandonment: Photography, Archaeology, and Western Historic Sites[4] and went on to be hosted at the Farmington Museum, in Farmington, New Mexico in 2005, and the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor's Center, in Dolores, Colorado, in 2006. Various local newspapers reviewed the exhibition including an article by photo historian Judith Reynolds in the Durango Herald[3]. Carr was invited to write another article and associated photo essay for Colorado Heritage Magazine in the spring of 2005 about the World War II era Japanese American internment camp in Colorado known as Amache[12]. Also in 2005, the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado, hosted an exhibition of Carr's portfolio from Scotland titled Farmers, Saints, and Tyrants.[13]

In 2006 Carr co-curated an exhibition of vintage photographs chronicling the history of Mesa Verde National Park. The exhibit was titled From Nordenskiold to Nusbaum: photography, archaeology, and tourism in the early years of Mesa Verde National Park and was held in the Western Art Gallery of the Central Denver Public Library. The exhibit was highlighted in several newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News.[14] Carr also wrote an accompanying article for Colorado Heritage Magazine.[15] The exhibit also won a Best of Denver award from Westword Magazine[16]. Also in 2006, and in association with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Antiquities Act, Carr was invited by the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology to exhibit his portfolio of photographs taken at Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the Southwestern United States.

In 2007 Carr was invited to create a series of photographs for an exhibition at the Mizel Museum of Denver, Colorado. The exhibit was titled 10 "Glocal" Artists Interpret Genocide[17] and centered around the exploration of ethnohistoric photography and contemporary documentation of sites on the Great Plains of the western United States. Carr's series was title Conflict on the Plains and went on to be exhibited at the Town Hall Arts Center, Littleton Colorado, in 2009[18]. In 2016 Carr as invited to share a selection of images from this portfolio in the online magazine SAPIENS.[19]

Carr's next major project was study of his own personal history title Excavating Childhood: the archaeology of self. It started in 2008 with the discovery of buried toys in the backyard of his childhood home in North Carolina. Carr had purposely buried them in the 1970s when he was a teenager and forgotten about them. Carr used these various artifacts to create works of art and wrote several professional archaeological papers about the experience. He was invited to write an article for Colorado Heritage Magazine[20] and his story was featured on Colorado Public Radio.[21]

In 2015 Carr was invited to hold a major retrospective exhibition of his historical site photography at the Western Art Gallery of the Central Denver Public Library. The exhibit was titled Thomas Carr: Expeditions, and a review of was published in 5280 Magazine[22] in July 2015. The photographs from this exhibition were permanently accessioned into the library archives.[5]

In 2016 Carr was invited YoungArts to participate in a collaborative art project called Transformations. Carr was one of 15 alumni from various years who were set up in groups of three and awarded grants to create short films about the concept of transformation in art. Carr was teamed up with filmmaker Kayla Briet and animator/dancer Isabela Dos Santos. Their film was titled Solitude, Darkness, Light[23], and was premiered in Miami, Florida.[24] In 2017 and 2018 the film was screened at a number of film festivals including NFFTY 2017 in Seattle, Washington, Sans Souci Festival of Dance in Cinema 2017 in Boulder, Colorado, the 2018 Durango Independent Film Festival in Durango, Colorado, the 2018 Solaris Film Festival in Nice, France. In 2017, two of Carr's images from the film were included in a YoungArts photography alumni exhibition title "Enlighted"[25]. From late 2016 to early 2017 Carr was also honored to have an exhibition of his photography title Tree and Leaf at Denver International Airport.[26]

Carr's most recent major project is a visual ethnography study of homelessness as seen through the lens of photography. The project was titled Traces of Home, and the fieldwork was conducted from 2016 to 2018, and involved visiting upwards of 80 homeless camps in the Front Range urban corridor of Colorado. The project resulted in two major exhibitions at the 40-West Arts in Lakewood, Colorado, in 2019 and the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology in 2020[27]. The exhibit was recommended as a highlight of Denver 2019 Month of Photography in Westword Magazine[28] and was featured again in Westword in 2020.[29]

Since 2021 Carr works as the Cultural Resource Team Lead/Senior Archaeologist for AECOM. Carr is also an active member of the Photo Pensato Collective. Carr's most recent body of work is titled Places In-between: the archaeology of light and is an impressionistic and allegorical representation of his years of exploration as an archaeologist and photographer. Images from this series have been exhibited in a number of juried exhibitions since 2018, including three prints in the LIES [30] exhibit at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

References

  1. ^ a b Carr, Thomas L.; Turner, Mort D. (1996). "Investigating regional lithic procurement using multi-spectral imagery and geophysical exploration". Archaeological Prospection. 3 (3): 109–127. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0763(199609)3:3<109::AID-ARP52>3.0.CO;2-P. ISSN 1099-0763.
  2. ^ a b Carr, Thomas (2003). "Photography and Archaeology: Parallel Histories, Colorado Perspectives". Colorado Heritage Magazine. Winter 2003. Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO.
  3. ^ a b Reynolds, Judith (2004). "Presence in the West: Photographer revitalizes notion of Romanticism – freshly". The Durango Herald (published May 19, 2004).
  4. ^ a b "Presence within Abandonment: Photography, Archaeology, and Western Historic Sites". Center of Southwest Studies. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  5. ^ a b "Collection: Thomas Carr Photo Collection | Denver Public Library ArchivesSpace". archives.denverlibrary.org. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  6. ^ Hilligoss, Brian (1985). "Portfolio: Thomas Lee Carr". Sanskrit Magazine. Spring edition. University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
  7. ^ Schrader, Ann (1997). "CU Team Finds Ancient Quarries". The Denver Post (published May 11, 1997).
  8. ^ EarthNews (1997). "Fieldwork in Orbit: Unearthly excavations pinpoint ancient quarries". Earth Magazine (published October 1997). p. 16.
  9. ^ Spotts, Peter N. (1997). "High-Tech Archaeology Has Teams Logging On, Not Just Digging In". The Christian Science Monitor (published April 16, 1997).
  10. ^ Powell, Dannye Romine (2000). "Filmmaker hoping we won't forget". The Charlotte Observer (published March 28, 2000).
  11. ^ "Forgotten Place: The History of an Abandoned Farming Community, A". www.archaeologychannel.org. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  12. ^ "Sixty years later: the remnants of Amache". History Colorado. LucideaCore ARGUS.net. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  13. ^ Marglin, Elizabeth (2005). "Earth, wind and stone: Three shows at the Dairy examine the elements". The Daily Camera (published March 13, 2005).
  14. ^ Chandler, Mary Voelz (2006). "Buried Treasure: Library, museum dig deep for Mesa Verde photo history". The Rocky Mountain News (published May 7, 2006).
  15. ^ "From Nordenskiold to Nusbaum: photography, archaeology, and tourism in the early years of Mesa Verde National Park". History Colorado. LucideaCore ARGUS.net. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  16. ^ "Best Historic Photo Show -- Group 2007". Westword. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  17. ^ Froyd, Susan (2007). "Eyewitness Reports: the message is the medium at the Mizel Museum's new show". Westword Magazine (published January 11, 2007).
  18. ^ Ellingboe, Sonya (2009). "Photos show a sense of past presence". Lone Tree Voice (published January 1, 2009).
  19. ^ Carr, Thomas (2016-01-28). "Conflict on the Plains". SAPIENS. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  20. ^ "The Role of Toys in the Archaeology of Self | History Colorado". www.historycolorado.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  21. ^ Yoanna, Michael de. "Colorado archaeologist excavates his childhood toys, discovers himself". Colorado Public Radio. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  22. ^ Edmunds, Christopher Chase (2015-07-08). "New Photography Exhibit Combines Art With Archaeology". 5280. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  23. ^ YoungArts (2016-10-24), Solitude, Darkness, Light, retrieved 2022-02-13
  24. ^ Desk, BWW News. "YoungArts to Premiere Newly Commissioned Short Films at OUTSIDE THE BOX Event". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  25. ^ "Enlightened: Contemporary Photography by YoungArts Alumni". Miami Art Scene™. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  26. ^ "Tree and Leaf | Denver International Airport". www.flydenver.com. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  27. ^ "Traces of Home". Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  28. ^ Froyd, Susan. "Month of Photography 2019: Twelve Not-to-Miss Shows". Westword. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  29. ^ Froyd, Susan. "Art Attack: Fifteen Best Things for Denver Gallery Lovers to Do This Week". Westword. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  30. ^ "Lies at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center". LENSCRATCH. 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

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