Jack Lueders-Booth
Born June 3, 1935
In 1970, Jack Lueders-Booth left a business career at age 35 to pursue photography. He taught photography at Harvard University from 1970 to 1999 where he was three times nominated for Harvard’s Joseph P. Levinson Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 1978 he received an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He then went on to teach photography at The Rhode Island School of Design, Tufts University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Art Institute of Boston. He was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH, and was Visiting Artist at Yale University Graduate School of Art and Design in New Haven CT.
His photographs are included in the collections of The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress, The Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Polaroid Foundation, The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, The Library of Congress.
His photographs have been published by Aperture, The Atlantic, DoubleTake, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Graphis Press, The Harvard Advocate, The Stone Fence Review, The Library of Congress. Lueders-Booth, and National Book Award winner, Luis Alberto Aurea, were twice nominated for Duke University’s Dorothea Lange and Paul Tayler Grant.
Jack has three monographs, ‘Inherit the Land’, with an introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea, and an essay by Frank Gohlke, published by Pond Press, 2005, ‘The Orange Line’ published by Stanley Barker Books, 2022, and ‘Women Prisoner Polaroids’ published by Stanley Barker Books, 2024. Lueders-Booth continues to photograph, publish, exhibit, and lecture. He has six adult children, Douglass, Laura, Gregory, Peter, Lucy, and Evelyn. He lives and works in his studio/house in Cambridge MA.
Jack Lueders-Booth is represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston.