The (Un)Settled Podcast Episode 5: Alex Harris
In today’s episode, Stan Hackney, the curator of art and audience
engagement at the Mobile Museum of Art, returns to discuss Un(Settled)
and the inclusion of Alex Harris’s photograph Longleaf Pines, Knoll
Park, Fairhope. Later, documentary photographer Alex Harris joins series
host Drew Baron to explore the art of documentary photography and his
work in Mobile, featured in the book Why We Are Here: Mobile and the
Spirit of a Southern City, co-written with renowned naturalist E.O.
Wilson.
(Un)Settled: The Landcape in American Art is now on view at the Mobile
Museum of Art: https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/unsettled/
The (Un)Settled Podcast is a multipart special presentation of the
Binder Podcast dedicated to the traveling exhibition (Un)Settled: The
Landscape in American Art. Part of a series of American art exhibitions
created through a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership
formed by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of the Art
Bridges Cohort Program.
Object Information:
Alex Harris; Atlanta, Georgia, b. 1949; Longleaf Pines, Knoll Park,
Fairhope, 2008–2011, printed 2012; Pigment inkjet print mounted to
Gatorfoam board; Mobile Museum of Art, Gift of Alex Harris, G2022.04.03
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe; Born Chicago, IL 1951; The Bride, The Groom,
and Their Guests, 1979; Gelatin silver print; Mat: 16 x 20 in. Framed:
17 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. Columbia Museum of Art,
Gift of Jeanne Moutoutssamy-Ashe, 1985.4.14
William Christenberry; Tuscaloosa, AL 1936–2016 Washington, D.C.; Grave,
Stewart, Alabama, negative 1962, printed 1996; Chromogenic print on
paper Image: 3 1/4 in. x 3 3/8 in. Sheet: 8 x 10 in. Mat: 14x18 in.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Friedlander,
2004.15.5
William Christenberry; Tuscaloosa, AL 1936–2016 Washington, D.C.; Store
with Signs, Greensboro, Alabama, negative 1975, printed 1995;
Chromogenic print on paper; Image: 3 1/8 in. x 4 7/8 in. Sheet: 8 x 10
in. Mat: 14 x 18 in. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Friedlander, 2004.15.12
William Christenberry; Tuscaloosa, AL 1936–2016 Washington, D.C.;
Abandoned House, Pickinsville [sic], Alabama, negative 1967, printed
1999; Chromogenic print on paper Image: 3 1/4 in. x 5 in. Sheet: 8 x 10
in. Mat: 14 x 18 in. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Friedlander, 2004.15.1
William Christenberry; Tuscaloosa, AL 1936–2016 Washington, D.C.
“Bread-of-Life” near Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2001; Chromogenic print on
paper Image: 3 1/2 in. x 5 in. Framed: 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift ofMr. and Mrs. Lee Friedlander,
2004.15.2
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe; Born Chicago, IL 1951; View of the Old Winery
from the Road, 1980; Gelatin silver print; Mat: 16 x 20 in. Framed: 17
1/4 x 21 1/4 in. Columbia Museum of Art, Gift of Jeanne
Moutoutssamy-Ashe, 1985.4.31
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe; Born Chicago, IL 1951; Silver Dew Winery, 1978;
Gelatin silver print; Mat: 20 x 16 in. Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.
Columbia Museum of Art, Gift of Jeanne Moutoutssamy-Ashe, 1985.4.32
