James Newberry
James Newberry American, 1937- Recognized for his early intriguing series of nudes and more recent series Changing Chicago, a social documentary project on immigrants, James Newberry (born in Indianapolis) studied at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967; M.S., 1973). His work was widely published in various periodicals, including Creative Camera, the British Journal of Photography, Du, Swiss camera, and photo, and served as illustrations in numerous textbooks. Newberry was included by Nathan Lyons in Vision and Expression at George Eastman House, Rochester (1969), and in Points of Entry, a traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (1995-97). He has had one-person exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1972), the Photographer's Gallery, London (1972), and the Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas (1988), and has received grants from the Focus/Infinity Fund (1987, 1988). Newberry has taught at Columbia College, where he was the founding chairperson of the department of photography (1967-75), and at East Texas State University (1979-95). He currently teaches at Collin County Community College and lives in Klondike, Texas. A.W.