Winnowing - Recent Work by John T. Hill
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John T. Hill is a photographer, graphic designer and author. He co-founded Yale’s Department of Photography and was then its first director of Graduate Studies. In more than twenty years of teaching at Yale, Hill continued to work as a photographer, taking photographs for numerous corporate publications, books, and magazines.
During his 19-year tenure as executor of the Walker Evans Estate, Hill produced a number of Evans’s books and exhibitions including Walker Evans: At Work, Walker Evans: The HungryEye, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary and Walker Evans: Depth of Field which was accompanied by a major exhibition hosted by the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany, co-curated by Hill and Heinz Liesbrock, the museum director. It is the most comprehensive Evans’s exhibition to date.
Other books he has designed, authored or co-authored include Calder by Matter, W. Eugene Smith Photographs, Edward Weston, Forms of Passion and May Day New Haven: Recollections 1970, and Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions. Two of his book designs were selected for the AIGA 50 Books of the Year Award.
In 2016, University Gallery at Rochester Institute of Technology hosted the exhibition Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions designed by Hill. It was the first extensive showing of Ives’s multi-faceted career.
In 2023, John Hill’s first book of his own work entitled Random Access was published by Steidl, Europe’s leading art book publisher. Taken over 70 years, it is a collection of photographs that celebrates the contradictions and imperfections of the world.. His focus is spontaneous happenings that strike a personal chord.
Hill is now completing work on Winnowing, his second book of new photographs.
