Background
Anthony Bannon was born in 1942 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.
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Anthony Bannon was born in 1942 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.
Bannon earned a BA in Biology from St. Bonaventure University, New York (1964), and an MA in Criticism from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Since 1966 he has been the photography and art critic for the Buffalo Evening News. He previously taught science and English at Father Baker High School, Lackawanna, New York (1964-66). Bannon belongs to SPE, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Newspaper Guild and the Society of Aesthetics.
He won the Western New York Newspaper Guild Criticism Award in 1979 and the Newspaper Guild Page One Award in 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976 and 1977. He was a Critic Fellow of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation and of the American Dance Conference in 1969, and a Fellow of the American Film Seminar in 1974-75.
His 16mm films include Braves on the Rebound, 1977; Arteffects, 1976; Artpark Movie Process, 1975; UB/More to Come, 1974; Sourcework, 1974; A Celebration for the Troups, 1972; Citizen of What Country1, 1971. He also made the 1974 videotape Celebration.
PUBLICATIONS Catalogs: Painterly Photographs: Contemporary Handworked Images, catalog essay, n.d. (Media Study/Buffalo &. Wash. Project for the Arts); Hallwalls Group Show, 1976 (Hallwalls Gall.: Buffalo). Periodicals: "Letter from Buffalo," Sept 1980, American Photographer; "From Formal to Family: Donald Blumberg," Dec 1979, "John Pfahl's Picturesque Paradoxes," Feb 1979, "The Strategies of Signs &. Seeing in the Criticism of Photography," Sept 1977, Afterimage: VSW.
Bannon belongs to SPE, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Newspaper Guild and the Society of Aesthetics.
