John T. Hill

John T. Hill
John T. Hill
Born	1934; Jackson County, Georgia
Nationality	American
Education	University of Georgia (BFA); University of Georgia (MFA); Yale School of Art and Architecture;

John T. Hill (born 1934) is an American artist. His work focuses mainly on design and photography.

Education

As an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, Hill studied painting, design, and photography, earning a BFA in design in 1955, and an MFA in painting in 1956. After a tour of infantry duty he continued graduate studies in design and photography at the Yale School of Art and Architecture.

Teaching

On graduating, he was asked to join the Yale faculty, where he taught both graphic design and photography. His faculty colleagues from the 1960s and 70s included Alvin Eisenman, Walker Evans, Herbert Matter, Norman Ives, Bradbury Thompson, and Paul Rand.

When Yale's Graphic Design Department was established in 1951 photography was seen as an integral part of the curriculum . Twenty years later, with photography's increased presence in the arts, Eisenman and Hill founded Yale's first Department of Photography, making it independent from its parent, Graphic Design.

Hill served as the department's first Director of Graduate Studies in Photography from 1971 to 1978.

Professional work

He began his early studies with hopes of being a painter before evolving into design and photography. During more than twenty years of teaching, Hill continued to work as a photographer, taking pictures for numerous books, magazines, and corporate publications. As a designer, his work is diverse, ranging from US postage stamp design to exhibition installations. Within the last ten years he has focused primarily on books and exhibition designs, as well as writing.

Executor of Walker Evans' estate

Three years before his death, Walker Evans asked Hill to serve as executor of his estate. On Evans' death in 1975, Hill took as a goal the expanded reading of Evans' work. The most common perception was, at best, a bathetic record of the Great Depression in the rural South. For Hill and many others, Evans' work rose high above that limited appraisal to be examined as a more universal statement surpassing the specifics of that time and place. As executor, Hill produced four books for the Evans estate. Others followed, all with that same purpose.

During and after his 19-year tenure as Evans' executor, Hill created many exhibitions of gelatin silver prints made from Evans' negatives. Within the last ten years, Hill has used the digital techniques of scanning, file adjustment, and digital printing to interpret Evans' images.[1] These digital tools allow maintaining detailed information in both dark and light passages, in a manner not possible with gelatin silver printing. Hill has used these digital files to produce prints, exhibitions, and books that extend the appreciation of Evans' intricate and multi-layered work. These exhibitions have been shown in museums and galleries in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Korea, New York City, and numerous other American institutions.

With Hill's help, the Evans archive was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art[2] in 1994. There it has received appreciation for its intrinsic value as the work of one of America's seminal artists. Proper conservation and cataloging can only be realized by an institution with such perception, size, and depth. The major portion of that archive is now available for study online.

Authorship

Hill has also produced books presenting the work of wide-ranging talents, including Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, Erwin Hauer, and Peter Sekaer.

In 2013 Hill designed the book Calder by Matter[3] for Cahiers d'Art. It is Herbert Matter's intimate account of Calder's work and his family life for over thirty years.

Books related to Walker Evans produced by J. Hill:

A partial list of books

Designed, Edited, Authored, Co-authored, or Produced by John T. Hill:

List of Books
The Eye of Walker Evans Luc Sante On the occasion of the exhibition Walker Evans: New York (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 28 July-11 Oct 1998), Broadly surveys the life and work of the American photographer Walker Evans.
Walker Evans: First and Last, Evans,[4] Published, Harper and Row, New York, 1978 Seker Warburg, London, 1978 Design, picture sequence, production, JTH
Walker Evans at Work,[5] Essay, Jerry L. Thompson Published, Harper and Row, New York, 1982 Thames and Hudson, London, 1982 Concept, design, and picture editing, JTH
Walker Evans Havana 1933 [6] Published, Contrejour, Paris, 1989 Pantheon, New York, 1989 Concept, design and picture editing, JTH
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye,[7] Co-authors, John T. Hill, Gilles Mora. Les Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1993[8] Harry N. Abrams. New York, 1993 Winner of the Prix de Nadar, Paris and The Krasna Krausz Book Award, London. Design concept and supervision, JTH[9]
W. Eugene Smith Photographs 1934-1975[10] Co-authors, John T. Hill, Gilles Mora. Les Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1988 Harry N. Abrams. New York, 1988 Thames and Hudson, London, 1988 Design and picture editing, JTH and Dorothy Hill
Walker Evans Simple Secrets, [11] Published, High Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams. New York, 1998 Design, picture editing, and production, JTH Honored by the AIGA as one of 50 Books of the Year.
Walker Evans: Depth of Field Co-authors, John T. Hill and Heinz Liesbrock Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2015
Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, Passion of Forms[12] Les Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1998 Harry N. Abrams. New York, 1998 Thames and Hudson, London, 1998 Design and picture editing, JTH and Dorothy Hill
Walker Evans [13] Biography by James Mellow Published by Basic Books, New York, 1999 Design, picture editing, JTH and Dorothy Hill Honored by the AIGA as one of 50 Books of the Year
The Idea of Cuba: Alex Harris[14] Published by University of New Mexico Press In association with The Center of Documentary Studies Duke University, 2003 Design, JTH
Herbert Matter[15] Published by Stanford University, 2005 On the occasion of the acquisition of the Matter Archive Design, picture editing, separations, and production, JTH
Erwin Hauer: Continua Architectural Screens and Walls Published, Princeton Architectural Press. New York, 2004 Design and picture editing, JTH
Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, Author and picture editor, John T. Hill Published by Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2007 Book design, and digital separations, JTH
Walker Evans American Photographs Books on Books Errata Editions, New York, 2008. Primary essay, “The Legacy of Seeing,” JTH
Peter Sekaer: Signs of Life Author and picture editor, John T. Hill Published by Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2010 Book design, and digital separations, JTH
Calder by Matter Essays by Jed Perl and John T. Hill Published by Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 2013 Book design, separations, and printing supervision, JTH
May Day at Yale, Recollections 1970[16][17] Co-authors, Henry Chauncey, Thomas Strong, and John T. Hill Published 2015

Photography Exhibitions Produced By Hill

List of Photography Exhibitions
Exhibition	Location	Date
Herbert Matter Photographs by Hebert Matter	Foto Festival, Arles. France.	2000[18]
Peter Sekaer: Photographs by Peter Sekaer	Foto Festival, Arles. France.
Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver Archival pigment prints Produced by John T. Hill and Sven Martson	Evans’ Centennial Exhibition Yale University Art School Gallery	2003
Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver	Museo di Roma, Palazzo Brachi	2005-06
Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver	UBS Gallery and Yale School of Art Avenue of Americas	2006
Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver	Museo Alinari, Piazza S.M. NovellaFirenze, Italy	2007
Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver	Fenimore Art Museum[19] Cooperstown, New York	June, 2009
The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans	Florence Griswold Museum	October 1, 2011 - January 29, 2012.
Walker Evans's "Havana 1933"	Laguardia Community College	2013
The art of Walker Evans[20]	Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery	2014
Walker Evans: Depth of Field	Josef Albers Museum (Bottrop, Germany)	September 27, 2015 - January 10, 2016

Exhibitions or work by Hill

Four Directions in Modern Photography

Yale University Art Gallery
December 14, 1972 - February 25, 1973

Bulldog and Panther Exhibition

Yale University Art Gallery
2014

Museum collections

International Center for Photography

(4 Prints)

Walker Evans House, April 1975

Digital archival print on inkjet paper, 13 x 15 inches
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of John T. Hill, 2012.5.1
View of Walker Evan's home interior. Focus is on a large bookshelf—one way sign image hangs above bookshelf.

Walker Evans House, April 1975
Digital archival print on inkjet paper, 13 1/2 x 13 inches
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of John T. Hill, 2012.5.2
View of sink with papers, can pull tabs

Walker Evans House, April 1975
Digital archival print on inkjet paper, 13 x 15 inches
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of John T. Hill, 2012.5.3
Interior view of living room—tidy—Evan's collection is prominently displayed

Walker Evans House, April 1975
Digital archival print on inkjet paper, 13 x 15 inches
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of John T. Hill, 2012.5.4
Interior view of Walker Evans home, living room sofa shown with large sign "when in the mood for 'LOBSTER' Mactriffs!"

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References

Marth, Eric. Printing American Photographs
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Calder by Matter
Walker. Walker Evans, first and last. HarperCollins Publishers, 1978.
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans at work. Icon, 1994.
Evans, Walker, and Gilles Mora. Walker Evans: Havana 1933. Pantheon, 1989.
Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: the hungry eye. Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Boxer, Sarah. 3 Degrees of Separation on the Road to Art https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/07/arts/photography-review-3-degrees-of-separation-on-the-road-to-art.html
Grundberg, Andy. Photography Books of the Year. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/books/photography.html?pagewanted=all
BAURET, Gabriel, et al. W. Eugene Smith: Photographs, 1934-1975. HN Abrams, New York, 1998.
Evans, Walker, Ellen Fleurov, and Benjamin A. Hill. Walker Evans, simple secrets: photographs from the collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill. Harry N Abrams Inc, 1997.
Weston, Edward. Forms of Passion: Passion of Forms. Ed. Gilles Mora. Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Mellow, James R. Walker Evans. Basic books, 2008.
Alex Harris. The Idea of Cuba. UNM Press, 2007.
Fernandez, Chantal. Designer’s Life and Work Explored http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/02/23/designers-life-and-works-explored/
Avoiding Armageddon in the Elm City: May Day 1970 Recollected http://www.courant.com/community/hc-ugc-article-avoiding-armageddon-in-the-elm-city-may-day-2015-04-12-story.html
Home / Connecticut / Avoiding Armageddon: How the 1970 Riots in New Haven Never Happened Avoiding Armageddon: How the 1970 Riots in New Haven Never Happened http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/avoiding-armageddon-how-the-1970-riots-in-new-haven-never-happened/
"Presentation of the festival - Les Rencontres d'Arles". www.rencontres-arles.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
https://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/node/1530
Brea, Cathy. The Art of Walker Evans http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/01/the-art-of-walker-evans/

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[1] Marth, Eric. Printing American Photographs

[2] Metropolitan Museum of Art

[3] Calder by Matter

[4] Walker. Walker Evans, first and last. HarperCollins Publishers, 1978.

[5] Evans, Walker. Walker Evans at work. Icon, 1994.

[6] Evans, Walker, and Gilles Mora. Walker Evans: Havana 1933. Pantheon, 1989.

[7] Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: the hungry eye. Thames & Hudson, 2004.

[8] Boxer, Sarah. 3 Degrees of Separation on the Road to Art https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/07/arts/photography-review-3-degrees-of-separation-on-the-road-to-art.html

[9] Grundberg, Andy. Photography Books of the Year. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/books/photography.html?pagewanted=all

[10] BAURET, Gabriel, et al. W. Eugene Smith: Photographs, 1934-1975. HN Abrams, New York, 1998.

[11] Evans, Walker, Ellen Fleurov, and Benjamin A. Hill. Walker Evans, simple secrets: photographs from the collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill. Harry N Abrams Inc, 1997.

[12] Weston, Edward. Forms of Passion: Passion of Forms. Ed. Gilles Mora. Thames and Hudson, 1995.

[13] Mellow, James R. Walker Evans. Basic books, 2008.

[14] Alex Harris. The Idea of Cuba. UNM Press, 2007.

[15] Fernandez, Chantal. Designer’s Life and Work Explored http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/02/23/designers-life-and-works-explored/

[16] Avoiding Armageddon in the Elm City: May Day 1970 Recollected http://www.courant.com/community/hc-ugc-article-avoiding-armageddon-in-the-elm-city-may-day-2015-04-12-story.html

[17] Home / Connecticut / Avoiding Armageddon: How the 1970 Riots in New Haven Never Happened Avoiding Armageddon: How the 1970 Riots in New Haven Never Happened http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/avoiding-armageddon-how-the-1970-riots-in-new-haven-never-happened/

[18] "Presentation of the festival - Les Rencontres d'Arles". www.rencontres-arles.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.

[19] ttps://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/node/1530

[20] Brea, Cathy. The Art of Walker Evans http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/01/the-art-of-walker-evans/