Nina Berman

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Nina Berman (b 1960, New York City) is an American documentary photographer. She has published two monographs, exhibited her prints in museums worldwide, received numerous grants and awards, and is a member of the NOOR photo agency and an Associate Professor at Columbia University.

Biography

Berman is a documentary photographer, journalist, and writer. Her photographic work focuses upon the American political and social landscape, including the militarization of American life and the dialogue around war, patriotism and sacrifice.

Berman is the author of two monographs: Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq,[1] and Homeland.[2] Her work has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Europe and the UK including the Dublin Contemporary 2011[3] and the 2010 Whitney Museum Biennial.[4] She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant,[5] several photojournalism awards, including two World Press Photo Foundation awards,[6] (one of which was for her iconic portrait “Marine Wedding” of a wounded Marine and his bride[7]), and a Hasselblad award.[8] She is a former teacher at the International Center of Photography in New York City and has lectured at universities and conferences throughout the USA and in Europe.

In 2005, Berman received the first Open Society Institute documentary distribution grantand traveled to high schools around the USA with Army veteran Robert Acosta presenting and exhibiting the Purple Hearts project.[9] Her work with high school students continued in 2010 in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as an artist in residence with the museum’s Youth Insights program.[10] In 2011, Berman developed a high school art curriculum with the Whitney Museum of American Art based on her images of wounded American veterans from the Iraq War and her Homeland series.[11] In 2009, Berman became a member of the NOOR photo agency based in Amsterdam. In 2012, she became an Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received an A.B. from the University of Chicago and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Bibliography

Monographs

Catalogues/Books

Selected Exhibitions

Honors

References

  1. ↑ Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq Trolley Books, 2004
  2. ↑ Homeland Trolley Books, 2008
  3. ↑ Dublin Contemporary Exhibition, 2011
  4. ↑ Whitney Museum of American Art: Nina Berman
  5. ↑ 2006 NYFA Fellows & Panelists New York Foundation for the Arts
  6. ↑ Nina Berman World Press Photo Foundation
  7. ↑ Nina Berman - Art - Review New York Times, 22 August 2007
  8. ↑ Masters Hasselblad, 2009
  9. ↑ Nina Berman Open Society Foundation
  10. ↑ "Nikon Supports Whitney Museum Of American Art Youth Insights Arts"
  11. ↑ Nina Berman and Gotham Professional Arts Academy Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010

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