Jack Lueders-booth

• Name — Jack Lueders-Booth • Birth Name — John Edward Cuneo • Born — 3 June 1935 • Birthplace — Boston, MA • Education — Harvard University, Ed.M., 1978 • Occupation — Photographer • Employer — self • Style — Documentary • Website — www.jacklueders-booth.com

Lueders-Booth was born in Boston, MA on June 3, 1935. His father, Edward J. Booth, was a math professor and his mother, Marie G. Booth, a homemaker. Lueders-Booth is the oldest of six children, four girls and two boys. He was raised Catholic. Lueders-Booth has lived in Boston, Ma. his entire life. After graduating high school, He began studying English at Harvard. Booth never finished his undergraduate degree, and instead began working for an insurance company, where he stayed for 15 years. Booth's interest in photography began when he was a young child, though this did not become a serious interest until he was 25.

A self-taught documentary photographer, Jack Lueders-Booth left an office management company with Combined Insurance Company of America in 1970, at the age of 35, to pursue overriding interests in photography. Booth went to work for Harvard University as the manager of their photography teaching laboratory, and a year later began to also teach photography there. In 1976, Booth took on a part-time study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, which he designed to be a photographic education, and he received his master's degree in 1978. He worked as a photography instructor in Harvard University’s Extension and Summer School’s until 1999. Booth also taught at The Maine Photographic Workshop, teaching both beginning and advanced documentary seminars. He served as a guest critic and lecturer at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston University, University of Colorado Boulder, Dartmouth College, Emerson College, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and Yale Graduate School of Art. In 1989, Booth was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, and in 1983-84 he was guest Artist-Teacher at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Ma. From 1983-1995, Booth received twelve Commendations for Distinguished Teaching, and three nominations for Harvard University’s Joseph P. Levenson Prize for Best Teacher of the Year. In 2000, Booth semi-retired to adjunct faculty positions at (sequentially), The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Massachusetts College of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, and Lesley University College of Art and Design.

After leaving his teaching position at Harvard University, Booth pursued his interest in photography full-time. From 2000-2006, Booth worked on the series The Last Corner Store, a shop near Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2005, Booth has photographed in and around Central Square, as well as at The Cantab and The Cantabridgean Lounge. This work has yet to be published.

Booth has six adult children, Douglass (B.1957), Laura (B.1959), Gregory (B.1960), Peter (B.1968), Lucy Nguyen (B.1980), and Evie Lueders-Booth (B.1991). For fun, he plays darts, tennis, and races motorcycles. Booth lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• An Elevated View: The Orange Line at Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988, 2016 • The Smithsonian (2012) (group "American Prisons") • The Small Works Show, Sacramento Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 23 - December 4, 2009 • “Lueders-Booth Tuckerman” at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005 • Our Town, The Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, NYC, 1993 (group) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994 (one person) • Photography Now, The Columbia College of Photography, Chicago Illinois, 1980 (group) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996 (one person) • John Lueders-Booth: Artist in Residence, The Hopkins Center of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1989 (one person) • Boston Now, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980 (group) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Maine Photographic Workshops, 1998 (one person) • Women Prisoners, Marion Art Center, Marion Massachusetts, 1980 (one person) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Massachusetts College of Art, 2006 (one person) • Recent Acquisitions (with Robert Frank), The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1988 (group) • Women Prisoners, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989 (one person) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The Rhode Island School of Design, 2003 (one person) • Crossing the Frontier, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1996 (group) • The Library of Congress Lowell Folklife Project, The United States Senate Rotunda, Washington, District of Columbia, 1994 (one person) • Families Who Live In and Off of the Dumps of Tijuana, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 1995 (one person)

• Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois • DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts • Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire • Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia • Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois • Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia