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Fordham University.
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Harry Mattison
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In 1978, he photographed the bombing of Estelí, Nicaragua and began working as a photographer for Time magazine. Between 1977 and 1996, Mattison photographed in Central America, Lebanon, and South Africa. His photographs have also appeared in The New York Times, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, and many other publications.
In 1982, he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for photography.
That same year, he published El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers, which he co-edited with Susan Meiselas. Mattison earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Literature at Fordham University in 1971.
During college he worked as an assistant to the photographer Richard Avedon. Following graduation, he did research for Ivan Illich in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
He has been photographing in the Peoples" Republic of China during the past four years.
A forthcoming book, Volunteers in Technical Service: Harry Mattison, will be published in November 2013 by Umbrage Editions, New New York Twenty-year retrospective, 1994, The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts Boston. Maryland Institute and College of Art, April, 1996.
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 2000
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2001
International Center of Photography, New York "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers,” September 2005.
798 Gallery, Beijing, China "Ten International Photographers” July, 2007. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, "Inside El Salvador," April 17 - August 3, 2008.
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Membership
He is a member of the permanent faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Robert Capa Gold Medal Robert Capa Gold Medal, Overseas Press Club, 1982. "Best Foreign Reporting requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” D.C. Council for the Arts Award 1998 MICA Teaching 2005 Beijing—An Olympic City in View, Beijing, First Prize 2007.Robert Capa Gold Medal Robert Capa Gold Medal, Overseas Press Club, 1982. "Best Foreign Reporting requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” D.C. Council for the Arts Award 1998 MICA Teaching 2005 Beijing—An Olympic City in View, Beijing, First Prize 2007.