{{Short description|American art photographer}} {{Infobox artist | name = Carl Chiarenza | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1935 | birth_place = Rochester, New York | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | field = Photography | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | awards = | elected = | website = [https://www.carlchiarenza.com carlchiarenza.com] }}
'''Carl Chiarenza''' (born 1935) is an American art photographer. He works predominantly in black and white photography. From 1979, he has worked entirely in the studio, creating abstract compositions using materials such as torn paper and aluminum foil. ==Life==
Chiarenza was born in Rochester, New York in 1935,<ref name="Chiarenza">{{cite web |url=https://www.carlchiarenza.com/ |title=Career Retrospective: Journey into the Unknown |work=Carl Chiarenza |accessdate=2021-03-13 }}</ref> to parents that had immigrated there from Italy.<ref name="VMFA">{{cite web |url=https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/carl-chiarenza/ |title=Carl Chiarenza |work=VMFA |publisher=Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |accessdate=2021-03-13 }}</ref> He studied with Minor White and Ralph Hattersley at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was active in Boston, Massachusetts for three decades, beginning in 1957. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973,<ref name="UofR">{{cite web |url=http://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/chiarenza_carl/index.html |title=People: Carl Chiarenza |work=School of Arts and Sciences |publisher=University of Rochester |accessdate=2021-03-13 }}</ref> and was Professor of Art History at Boston University until 1986.<ref name="JCC">{{cite web |url=http://weeksgallery.sunyjcc.edu/transmutation-Carl-Chiarenza |title=Transmutation: Photographic Works by Carl Chiarenza |work=The weeks gallery: Past exhibitions |publisher=Jamestown Community College |accessdate=2021-03-13 }}</ref> He became a Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester beginning in 1986, where he eventually became Chair of Art and Art History.<ref name="RIT">{{cite web |url=http://artoncampus.rit.edu/artist/122/ |title=Carl Chiarenza |work=RIT libraries present art on campus |publisher=Rochester Institute of Technology |accessdate=2021-03-13 }}</ref> He is currently Professor Emeritus and Artist in Residence there.<ref name="UofR"></ref>
==Exhibitions and collections== Chiarenza's photographs have been shown in more than 80 solo exhibitions and more than 250 group exhibitions, starting in 1957,<ref name="VMFA"></ref> and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,<ref name="UofR"></ref> as well as many other institutions.
==Publications== *''Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors'', Boston, 1982 *''Landscapes of the Mind'', David R. Godine, Boston, 1988 *''Evocations'', Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2002 *''Peace Warriors of Two Thousand and Three'', Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2004 *''Solitudes'', Lodima Press, 2005 *''Interaction: Verbal / Visual'', Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2006 *''Pictures Come from Pictures'', David R Godine, Boston, 2008
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==External links== *[https://www.carlchiarenza.com/image-galleries/ Image galleries]
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