| William Burke |
| Biography |
| Photography. M.F.A. in Photography ('70) and B.F.A. in Photography ('68), Rhode Island School of Design; B.A. in Art History, Middlebury College ('66). Incorporating autobiographical events among photographs from his travels in Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are two artists' books: Mine Fields ('95) and I Want to Take Picture ('87). His new book will trace the political and economic histories of that region through its architecture. Exhibitions: Middlebury College Museum of Art; Foreign Correspondent's Club of Cambodia; "The Garden of Eden" at the Nordelicht Foto Festival in the Netherlands; Red Eye Gallery at Rhode Island School of Design; Gallery 292, New York; and "Boston Photography, 1955-1985." Grants: Graham Foundation for Advanced Visual Studies in the Fine Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Gahan Foundation at Harvard University; Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; and the Englehard Foundation. Another body of work, video stills of MacDonald's cheeseburgers, cans of Spam, and computer monitors as they are struck by bullets, has been published in Blind Spot magazine. |
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