Background

Thomas Harney was born on October 14, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Education

Thomas Harney received a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Michigan State University, Lansing, in 1968.

Career

Thomas Harney has been a freelance photographer since 1968. Working strictly with a 35mm camera in black-and-white.

Achievements

• Thomas Harney is the recipient of grants from City 2000 and Changing Chicago Project. His photographs have been exhibited in Chicago at Stuart Baum Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Historical Society, ARC Gallery, and Truman College. They are also included in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Portraits from the Park: Comiskey Park Photographs, 1973-1990 2013

• photography

  • photography

  • photography

  • Spanish Artist

    1972

  • Garry Winogrand and Melissa

    1979

  • Ceci with Hose

    1972

  • Judy Laughing

    1973

  • Chicago (Men in Suits Eyeing Woman Pedestrian)

    1984

  • Father Resting in Sun

    1973

  • Image actions Chicago (black boy selling Chicago Tribune)

    1982
  • Judy Sleeping 1973

Views

Quotations: "I’m set on the idea of taking photographs every day with the belief these photographs start to make sense as a body of work - that’s as close as I’m willing to come to identifying a project."

Connections

Friend:

Garry Winogrand

References

• Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators
  1983