CV
SELECTED BOOKS
A Time of Youth: San Francisco 1966–1967 by William Gedney, Edited by Lisa McCarty, Texts by Lisa McCarty & Philip Gefter Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
The Arboretum Aphorisms of Nathaniel Dorsky, Edited by Lisa McCarty, Texts by Lisa McCarty & Nathaniel Dorsky. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Cinematheque, 2020.
Transcendental Concord, Photographs by Lisa McCarty, Texts by Rebecca Norris Webb and Kirsten Rian, Radius Books, 2018.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS ( * Indicates Solo Exhibition)
2023
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Cosmic Rays: Space is the Place, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Heavy Light Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond the Horizon, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
Memento Mori Biennial, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University
The Yellow Rose Project, The Hand Art Center, DeLand, Florida
2022
Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
The Nature Library, John Muir's Birthplace, Dunbar, Scotland
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Trees, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona & Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2021
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO
Lusanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Nature Library, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ghosts of Lost Futures, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Yellow Rose Project, The Front, New Orleans, LA
Home & Away, Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
Picture in Picture, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
We Are All Astronauts, S3026, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO*
2020
The Yellow Rose Project, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO
Across the Universe, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Videos at The Museum, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Small File Film Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Photos de Femmes Festival, Chateau de Lomenie and Chateau de Lalande, Southern France
The Qualities of Light, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
14th International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2019
Transcendental Concord, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA*
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Grosskreisentfernung, Tête, Berlin, Germany
Punkt Linie Fläche Raum, Internationale Photoszene Köln, Cologne, Germany
Photosite Array, Granary Arts, Ephraim, Utah*
Chronology: A People’s Ordering of Events, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Month of Photography Los Angeles Photobook Exhibition, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
2018
Transcendental Concord, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA*
IN VIVO: The Nature of Nature, Museum Belvédere, Heerenveen, the Netherlands
Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Photosites, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY*
New Arrivals Photobook Exhibition, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
And Light Followed the Flight of Sound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Shared History, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Month of Photography Los Angeles Photobook Exhibition, Venice Arts, Marina del Ray, CA
Thinly Veiled, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Instant Gratification, Redux Contemporary Arts Center, Charleston, SC
2017
Literary Spirits, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
Transcendental Concord, Thoreau Society Bicentennial Gathering, Concord, MA*
The Library: A Photobook Love Affair, Tête, Berlin, Germany
Debtfair (participating artist), a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Between the Medium, Curated by Mark Sink, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
Portfolio Showcase 10: Looking and Seeing, Curated by Hannah Freiser, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Instant Gratification, Atlanta School of Photography, Atlanta, GA
Instantaneous, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC
Fall Line Fifty, Fall Line Press, Atlanta ,GA
2016
2-Minute Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art & Row House Cinema, Pittsburgh, PA
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Watershed Cinema, Bristol, UK
Jetzt los, geht's los oder is it the other way around?, Photographic Salon at Fotohaus, Curated by Kaetha, Arles, France
Lake Eden, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center Interlude Festival, Asheville, NC*
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Platform Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, The Tap, Haverhill, MA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater, Chicago, IL
Experiments in Cinema 11.4, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
UNX Fest, Unexposed Microcinema, Durham, NC
Automic, Curated by The Hand Magazine, Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2015
Positioning Systems, Curated by Zach Nader, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Heart of Hawick, Hawick, Scotland
Das Kann So Gewesen Sein, Galerie Luzia Sassen, Bonn, Germany
Developer Drawings, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA*
Prime Time, Asheville Art Musuem, Asheville, NC
Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-ParapAnti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
Griffin Museum of Photography 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Jim Casper, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Union Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
Developer Drawings, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC*
Dateline 012, Dateline, Denver, CO
Houston Center for Photography 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Russell Lord, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Something Said Only Once Festival, Flagstaff, AZ
2014
Self Processing: Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Readymade@100, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
Cairo Video Festival, Medrar Center for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
Picture Berlin Festival, Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin, Germany
Teeny-Cine, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
Berserk, Visual Arts Exchange, Raleigh, NC
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater, Chicago, IL
2013
51st Annual New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, Lincoln Center, NY, NY
Grenzgänger, VBK Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Sören Kierkegaard in Images, Escuela Motivarte de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
5 Rooms | 5 Photographers, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
10, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
Lumen, Artisphere, Arlington, VA*
MDCCCXXXIX, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC*
48 Hours in Las Vegas, Frederic Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Film & Music, Music & Film, Sheafer Lab Theater, Duke University
2012
It’s Not Yesterday Anymore, UFO Presents, Berlin, Germany
Before Berlin, LoBe, Berlin, Germany
Florid Interiors, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
Preoccupations, East Duke Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
2011
FACE to FACE, Aula Carolina, Aachen, Germany, Villa Herzogenrath, Herzgenrath-Kohlscheld, Germany, & Ministerium der Deutchsprachigen Gemeinschaft, Eupen, Belgium
Illusions, PhotoNOLA Exhibition at Sibley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Some Account of Lacock Abbey, FotoDC Exhibit at The Gallery at Vivid Solution, Washington, D.C.*
The Polaroid Retrospective, Lamont Bishop Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Places We Have Known, University of Maryland Stamp Gallery, College Park, MD
10 Cameras Project, Art Space Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
2010
Florid Interiors, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA *
Civilian Editions, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.
Periphery, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Disclosed, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
One Hour Photo, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
Accommodation, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
EDUCATION
2013
M.F.A. Experimental and Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
Certificate in College Teaching, Duke University, Durham, NC
2005
B.F.A. Studio Art, Art History Minor, Magna Cum Laude, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & RESIDENCIES
2023 Faculty Research Development Grant, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2022 Plant Humanities Lab Residency, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, D.C.
2021 Artist in Residence, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Summer Research Fellowship, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
2020 Faculty Development Grant, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
2019 Sam Taylor Fellowship, General Board of Higher Education, Nashville, TN
2019 14th International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Honorable Mention, Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Residency, Rochester, NY
2018 Faculty Research Grant, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017 Teaching for Equity Fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC
2016 Video Commission, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
2015 Faculty Travel Grant, Duke University, Durham, NC
2012 Picture Berlin Residency, Berlin, Germany
2012 Platte Clove Artist in Residence, Catskill Center for Conservation, Arkville, NY
2012 Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC
2012 Center for Documentary Studies Summer Study Grant, Duke University, Durham, NC
2011 Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC
INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCES
2023 Spotlight Talk, 10x10 Photobooks What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women 1843-1999 Reading Room, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
2021 Visiting Artist Talk, Snow College, Ephraim, UT
2020 Artist Talk, A Yellow Rose Project, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
2020 “Modus Operandi: Approaches to Contemporary Research Based Practice,” Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Houston, Texas
2019 Artist Talk, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2019 “Creating Change from Within: Building and Discovering Diverse Archives,” Fast Forward: How Do Women Work Conference, Tate Modern, London, UK
2018 Panelist, Contemporary Photobook Workshop, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2018 Lecture, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture & Critiques, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2018 Artist Talk, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2018 Artist Talk, Thoreau Society Bicentennial Gathering, Concord, MA
2017 “William Gedney: A Case Study in Legacy Building,” What are institutions looking for and how do they build their collections?, American Photography Archives Group, International Center for Photography, NY, NY
2016 Panelist, William Gedney: All Facts Eventually Lead to Mysteries, HowarD Greenberg Gallery, NY, NY
2016 “Lake Eden,” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC
2016 “Transcendental Vision: Photographing Concord as a Transcendentalist in the 21st Century,” 75th Annual Thoreau Society Gathering, Concord, MA
2015 Artist Talk, Developer Drawings, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
2015 “The Archive of Documentary Arts,” How to Work with Institutions and Museums,” American Photography Archives Group, International Center for Photography, NY, NY,
2013 Panelist, Inspired by the Lens, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2013 Artist Talk, MDCCCXXXIX, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC
2013 Artist Talk, Some Account of Lacock Abbey, FotoWeek DC
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Photo-Texts: A Survey of the Rubenstein Library’s Photobook Collection, Duke University, Durham, NC
2019 The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes & Roy DeCarava, Duke University, Durham, NC
2018 Propitious Wind and Rain, Photographs by Tom Rankin, Duke University, Durham, NC
2018 Manifest: Photographs by Wendel White, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017 Test of Faith: Photographs by Lauren Pond, Duke University, Durham, NC
2016 Wave the Flag, Duke University, Durham, NC
2015 Intimate Gestures: Handmade Books by William Gedney, Duke University, Durham, NC
2015 Aunties: Photographs by Nadia Sablin, Duke University, Durham, NC
2014 An Everyday Affair, Selling the Kodak Image to America 1888-1989, Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC
2012 Total Reflective Abstraction, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, Publish Your Photography Book, Third Edition, Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2023.
Nicola J. Watson, The Author’s Effects: On Writer’s House Museums, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020
Odette England, Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Schilt Publishing, 2020
Henry Horenstein, Make Better Pictures: Truth, Opinions, and Practical Advice, New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2018
Eliot Dudik and Jared Ragland, And Light Followed the Flight of Sound, Richmond, VA: One Day Projects, 2018
Print Media
This is not a Fashion Photograph. William Gedney by Vince Aletti, Vogue Italia, March 2021
An Intimate Portrait of the ‘60’s Counterculture by Benjamin Schneider, SF Weekly, February 2021
A Yellow Rose Project by Mary Voelz Chandler, Denver Art Review, November 2020
Cover Image, Southern Cultures, Vol. 26, No. 1, University of North Carolina Press, Spring 2020
Life in the Woods Through a Literary Lens, by Conor Risch, Photo District News, May 2018
A Spotlight on the Season's Best Photography Books, by Luc Sante, The New York Times, November 28, 2017
William Gedney: A Photographer Exiled in His Own Land by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, September 5, 2017
Old and New Literary Spirit Comes Alive at Fruitlands Art Gallery, The Harvard Press, April 20, 2017
Concord Marks Patriot Day, Nancy Shohet West, Boston Globe, April 14, 2017
For Photography, A New Way Forward, by Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, March 25, 2017
Square Magazine, Special Issue SP-06 Holga, 2016
The Hand Magazine, Issue 11, January 2016
Unique as a painting, quick as a flash, Polaroid photos find a place, John D’Addario, The New Orleans Advocate, October 22, 2014
Rigorous Experimentation, Robert J. Bliwise (Editor), Duke Magazine, Vol. 99, No. 3, Summer 2013.
Ausstellung FACE to FACE reist in die DG, Echo Grenz, Eupener, October 1, 2011.
Die gemeinsame Sprache der Kunst, Von Antje Uhlenbrock, Aachener Nachrichten, April 27, 2011.
Digital Media, Journals, and Blogs
The Reanimation of William Gedney, Over Fity Years After the Summer of Love, Humble Arts Foundation, April 2021
Suffrage Photos Build A Bridge from the Past to the Future, National Public Radio, August 2020
Lisa McCarty: Transcendental Concord by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, December 2019
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Volume 9: Archives and Histories, Summer 2019
Book Review: “Winter’s Silent Songs” by Suzanne Révy, What Will You Remember, February 2019
Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books of 2018 List, December 2018
Photo-eye 2018 Favorite Photobooks of 2018 List, December 2018
Notable Photo Books of 2018, Photo District News, November 2018
Book of the Week: Transcendental Concord by Rowan Sinclair-Gregg, Photo-eye Blog, October 2018
Lisa McCarty: Transcendental Concord by Kirsten Rian, Daylight Digital, July 2017
Impossible Project Magazine: Book Release: Circles, March 2017
Lenscratch: Paradise Out-Front at the Southern Gallery, January 2017
Humble Arts Foundation Group Show 50: 'Roid Rage, 2016
Don't Take Pictures, Some Assembly Required Feature, 2016
Actions of Light, Unseen, Oxford American, Eyes on the South, July 11, 2016
A Conversation with Lisa McCarty, Mysterious Facts, by Jay Turner Frey Seawell, 2015
Brief Interview with Lisa McCarty, Strant Magazine, Camera Reality Blog, 2015
Humble Arts Foundation Group Show 42: Occultisms, 2014
The photographer who rejected racism in the American south, Rob Brown, BBC World Service, September 14, 2014
A Direct Line from Eastman to Phone Images, Blue Greenberg, The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC, July 3, 2014
An Explosion of New Music in the Triangle, Chris Vitiello, IndyWeek, Raleigh/Durham, April 24, 2013.
Reframing Photography: Theoory & Practice, May 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Current Appointment: Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Courses: Introduction to Photography, Photography: Concept + Process, Photography: Visual Strategies, Movement & Time
2019-2022, Assistant Professor of Photography, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Courses: Advanced Photography & Digital Media, The Documentary Impulse, Introduction to Photography, Graduate Seminar, The Photographic Portrait, Eco-Photography
2014-2019, Adjunct Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC
Courses: Introduction to Photography, Introduction to Arts of the Moving Image, Photography in Context, Photographic Memory: Photo Albums, Zines, & Photobooks, Activating the Archive: Archival Research as Documentary Practice, Picturing Activism, Introduction to Film Studies
2013, Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Courses: Introduction to Photography and Intermediate Photography
COLLECTIONS
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Brakhage Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC
Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA
Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection, NY, NY
Hellenic Centre for Photography Library, Athens, Greece
Impossible Project Library, Berlin, Germany
McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Thoreau Institute, Concord, MA
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY