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* Barbara Millstein, Curator of Photography of the
Brooklyn Museum wrote in 1999, "I have been looking at and purchasing
the photographs of Helen M. Stummer since 1985. Ms. Stummer has dedicated
herself to a photographic project dealing with one of the most seriously
neglected and crime-ridden wards of Newark, New Jersey. Stummer not only
turned her camera on her subjects, but also took an interest in their
welfare and bcame a valued friend. Her photographs reflect this dedication
and more, they are often very beautiful as well as moving and they are
full of sensitivity and love..."
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007) Anne Louise Davis Gallery, Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield,
NJ. No
Easy Walk, Social Docmentary
Photography 1977-2006.
2007) Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.
Bending the Grid: Rest in Peace, by Helen M. Stummer
2005) Pierro Gallery, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ. Realities of
Our Times: A Closer Look
2004) NJ Historical Society, Newark, NJ. Urban Portraits
2002) Tomasulo Gallery, UCC, Cranford, NJ.
1999) New Jersey Institute of Technology-Hazell Gallery, NJ.
1998) O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC.*
1996) The Gallery at Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ.
1995) Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
1995) Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ.
1995) O.K. Harris Works of Art, NYC.*
1995) Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College,
Wayne, NJ.
1994) Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.
1993) New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
1993) Resource Center Gallery, County College of Morris,
Randolph, NJ.
1991) Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community
College, FL.
1991) Woodrow Wilson Graduate School, Princeton University,
NJ.
1990) Norbert Considine Gallery, Stuart Country Day School,
Princeton, NJ.
1989) Chauncey Gallery, Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, NJ.
1989) Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC.
1988) City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
1986) Kean University Gallery, NJ.
1986) Newark Library, Newark, NJ.
1986) Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ.
1980) The International Center for Photography (Education
Galleries), NYC.
* Ivan Karp, Director of O.K. Harris, New York City,
on January 30, 1999, wrote, "O.K. Harris has shown fine photography
for thirty years. Helen Stummer is one of the few exhibitors whose work
has universal response. Her work is mature, complex, provocative, and
illuminating. Her dedication to her human subjects is unique in its powerful
focus. We revere her lofty idealism."
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Group Exhibitions:
2008) New Jersey Governor's Conference for Women
2007) The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY. That 70's
Show
2006) Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ. American Diaspora
2005) Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Superfly
2003-2004) New York Historical Society, NYC. Children at Risk:
Protecting New York City’s Youths. 1653-2003.
2002) Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. New Jersey Arts
Annual, Fine Arts.
2001) Pleiades Gallery, NYC
2001)
The Museum of the City of New York, NYC
1999) The State Museum, Trenton, NJ. New Jersey Arts
Annual.
1999,1998) Woodstock Center for Photography, NY.
1987) Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, Newark, NJ.
1985) The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Arts Annual.
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Awards and Honors:
2006) Gracie Allen Award from American Women in the Media, “On
The
Scene”, a Channel 12 News arts and entertainment
magazine show featuring a
profile of Helen M. Stummer’s urban
photography.
2006) Photo Review competition, judged by Philip
Brookman,
Senior Curator of
Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC. Honorable
Mention.
2006) Women In Photography International "Silver Anniversary"
competition. Among the jurors: Joyce Tenneson, NYC; Susanne
Konig,
NYC; Laurie
Kratochvil, NYC. Winner 100 Image and
Honorable Mention.
2005) Who's Who in America,
The 60th Diamond
Anniversary
Edition.
2004) New Jersey State Arts Council Photography Panel
2004) Woman In Photography International—woman in
photography international@aol.com. Visual. Visual
competition—Honorable Mention.
2003 and 1995) NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship.
1999) Open Society Institute, NYC. G.H. Goodman, U.S.
Programs: Finalist.
1999) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, International Juried
Competition. Judged by Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and
Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Best
in Show.
1998) Russ Berrie Prize for Making a Difference: Finalist.
1998) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, International Juried
Competition. Judged by Nan Rosenthal, Consultant, 20th
Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Honorable
Mention.
1997) "Celebrity," Art Auction, New Jersey Performing
Arts
Center, Newark, NJ
1996) Gordon Parks Photography Competition, Honorable
Mention.
1996) The Jurgen Thieck Memorial Award for Photography,
The NJ Center for the Visual Arts.
1996) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, International Juried Show
—judged by Thelma Golden, Associate Curator, Whitney
Museum
1995) No Easy Walk selected for inclusion in the 1995
Edition
of the Public Library Association and the University Press
Books Committee of the American Association of School
Librarians.
1995) Center for Teaching Excellance, The County college of
Morris, grant.
1995) National Museum of Women in the Arts—the Library
and Research Centers archival files, Washington, D.C.
1994) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, International Juried Show
—judged by Robert T. Buck, director of the Brooklyn
Museum.
Merit Award.
1995) Philadelphia Book Clinic, a 50-year-old association of
publishing industry professionals, No Easy Walk.
Second place.
1995) National Museum of Women in the Arts—the Library
and Research Centers archival files, Washington, D.C.
1994) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, International Juried Show
—judged by Robert T. Buck, director of the Brooklyn
Museum.
Merit Award.
1992) County College of Morris Foundation, Fellowship
1992) Geraldine Dodge Foundation, Fellowship.
1992–96) Photographer’s Forum, Phila. Honorable Mention
1991) Mid Atlantic Arts, Regional Fellowship
1990) New Jersey Historical Commission: Grant.
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Selected Publications:
Out of Darkness: How a Birth Mother Found Herself While Searching
for Her Daughter
HMS Press, Ontario, Canada. 1998
Translated and published in France, E. Kriegk. 2004.
American Photography: Oxford History of Art, Oxford University
Press. Miles Orvell. 2003.
Temple University Press, No Easy Walk, Newark, 1980-1993,
Stummer, Helen M., . "I hope the book is widly read,"
Jonathan
Kozol. 1994.
City Limits, New York’s Urban Affairs News Magazine,
"Reconstruction Debris," Page 5 April 1999.
Leica View NY Leica Camera, Inc. Fall 1998.
LensWork Quarterly CA "My Photographic Journey."Number 21,
May 1998
Transitions Abroad, NY "Guatemala Diary Lessons Learned from
the Mayans." May/June 1998.
City Limits, NYC. "Broken Homes, There’s Life Amid the Desolation
of Newark’ Tumbling Housing Projects." Feb. 1998.
NJ Monthly Magazine, "322 Irvine Turner Boulevard," Exist Ramp,
July, 1997.
Sojourner, The Women’s Forum,"Fragile Peace," Guatemala,
Story
and Photos, vol 22, No.11. July 1997.
City Limits, NYC. "Burned Out" Photographs and Text by Helen
M.
Stummer, 4/97.
The New York Times, "How Mary Cameron Got Her Roof (It Took a
Village)," Photographs and Text by Helen M. Stummer.
Sunday,
October 27, 1996.
The New York Times, "Trying to Patch the Holes in the Safety Net
(and, Sometimes, the Roof)." Photographs and text by
Helen M.
Stummer. Sunday, June 9, 1996.
The New York Times, "Survivors: The Lives and Troubled Times of
a Newark Tenament." Photographs and Text by Helen M.
Stummer. Sunday, March 31, 1996.
The New Jersey Reporter, A Journal of Public Issues, "Newark
Stories," (Photo-Essay) March/April, 1995.
City Limits, New York’s Urban Affairs News Magazine,
"Newark: Crossing the Line," Helen M. Stummer,
(Photo Essay)
April 1995.
On the Issues, "Living in the Trenches: A Celebration of Carol,"
(Photo-Essay), Forest Hills, NY Fall ‘93
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL "No Easy
Walk/Voices of the Inner City." Twenty-six page exhibit
catalog. 1991.
International Journal of Visual Sociology, Herodot, Gottingen,
Germany, Vol. 2 p.35. ("[Stummer]...wants to communicate
to those more fortunate the social conditions existent there...
[ghetto]" Timothy J. Curry), Photo-Essay, 1985
Transaction, Social Science and Modern Society, Rutgers
University,NJ "Mothers in the Inner City," Vol.
27, No. 5, p.83,
Photo-Essay Jul/Aug 1990.
On the Issues, Choices,Forest Hills, NY, Vol. XVII, Winter
1991, "Living Without Choices," Photo- Essay, 1990.
On the Issues, Choices, Forest Hills, NY, Vol. XV, Summer ‘90,
"H.O.M.E.: One Woman’s Approach to Society’s
Problems, "
(Photo-Essay), 1990.
Gemini, Montclair, NJ. "No Easy Walk:The Central Ward,"
(Catalog of City Without Walls exhibit; 26 pp.,) 1988.
Visual Sociology Review, Potsdam College of the State University of
New York,"Views of a Ghetto Community," Vol. 2,
No. 2, p.6, Fall
(Photo-Essay) 1987.
Transaction, Social Science and Modern Society, Rutgers University,
NJ, Vol. 24, No. 3, p.83,"Ordinary Miseries," March/April
1987.
(PhotoEssay).
Save the Children Federation, "Hard Choices, Portraits of Poverty
and Hunger in America." 1984.
Camera 35, NYC, "Photographs of Unique Merit and Interest,"
Vol. 25, No. August 1980.
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Bibliography:
The Sun Magazine, NC. Cover Photograph. July 2007
Soul's Journal. Cover photo. Summer 2006
The Sun Magazine, NC. Cover photo. Winter 2005.
Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, a
publication of
the American Sociological Association.
Vol 4/ Number 4/ Fall 2005. "In
the American City" photo
essay.
The Sun Magazine, NC. Cover photograph and two images inside.
August 2004. Issue 344
Readings American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, NYC. Cover photo.
April ‘98.
Newman, David. M. Sociology Exploring the Architecture of
Everyday Life. Four photographs. DePauw University, pp
387-398. Second Edition,’97.
HOPE Magazine , Nine photographs illustrating Code of the
Streets, by Elijah Anderson. Premier Issue Jan/Feb 1996.
Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times, "Stummer does not exhort,
neither does she blame...It would be a callous observor who
is
not moved by her work," February 26, 1995.
Orrick, Phyllis. Beyond the Poverty Line, Helen Stummer’s
Decades-Long Photographic Odyssey Among the Urban Poor, NY
Press, Sept. 8-14,1993
Zimmer, William. The New York Times, "This is heartfelt
documentation." April 9, 1995.
Seidel, Mitchell. The Sunday Star Ledger, "Portraits of the Inner
City Provoke Thoughtful Comments," May 2, 1993.
Kohen, Helen, I. The Miami Herald, "The people in Stummer’s
pictures always have their dignity, their humanity..."
5/26/91.
Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times, "...Stummer’s account
of
suffering comparable with but less inflammatory than those
produced in 19th- century Europe by social historians, novelists
and artists." 10/7/90.
Seidel, Mitchell. The Sunday Star Ledger, ‘...You can see how
these people are trying to regain or maintain hope and
self-esteem." 4/15/90
Morris, Maggie. Time Off, "...She packs a mean punch with her
no-bull photographs." 2/1/89.
NJEA Review, New Jersey Education Association, Trenton, NJ,
"Housing and Homelessness,"Vol. 63, No. 3, Nov.
1989.
(Cover photograph plus numerous other photographs
throughout publication.
Perger, Sue. LSNJ Report Legal Services of NJ, Edison.
Photographs by Stummer: Numerous Publications from 3/91.
Thierman, Heather B., Countryside (Green Team), Hearst
Corporation,"Land Trusts for Housing," Spring ‘91,
p. 51. 1991
Smith, Beryl (Curator), Women Artists Series, Douglass College, NJ,
(Exhibit catalog "It is no small credit to Stummer’s
patience and
rapport that she is able to get amazingly intimate shots
of
everyday life." 1988-89.
Frame/Work : A Journal of Images and Culture, Los Angeles
Center for Photographic Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. (Thirteen
photographs by Stummer depicting the effects of environment
on
children’s development) 1988.
Weld, Alison (Curator) Imagery of Black America Rutgers University,
Newark, NJ Exhibit Catalog: two photographs, 1987.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Annual Report, p. 52. 1987.
The New York Times "Who Are the Homeless? ‘We Are All at Risk,’"
Sunday, Nov. 9, 1986.
Conti, Susan F., Challenge of Change, The Association for Children
of New Jersey, Newark. 1986.
Fagan,Tricia, and Shirley Geismar, The Association for Children of
New Jersey, Junior Leagues of NJ.Abandoned Dreams: New
Jersey’s Children in Crisis--Services Planning, 1985.
Stefanini, Pat, and Bette Johnson,NJ State Council on the Arts
and Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, NJ, "Image Making,"
May 1985.
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Selected Lectures
2004) Soho Photo, NYC. "Photographic Journey'
2004) Temple University. African American Studies. Dr. Molefi
Asante. "Dimensions of Racism."
2003) Staten Island University. Sociology. Prof. D. Goode.
"Growing up in Poverty."
2001) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit. "Photography
as
Self Portrait."
2003) CN8, Faces of Poverty
2003, 1998, 1991) CABLEVISION, Newark.
1998) NJ Center For The Visual Arts. My Photographic Journey.
1996) Channel 12 News, NJ Talking. "No Easy Walk."
1996) Kent Place school-Assembly- slide/lecture presentation
"Knowing Your Neighbors"
1996) Newark Academy-"Where Do the Children Play."
1995) Brookdale College-slide/lecture presentation," Twenty
years of documentary photography."
1994) Williams College, Williamsport, MA- Association of American
Colleges and Universities Conference "Boundaries and
Borderlands: The search for Recognition and Community in
America." Speech/ slide/lecture, "A personal Journey:
photographing the ignored and invisible." "Many
of the
participants commented about your presentation style and
realized that though you shared some wrenching stories, your
easy style and sense of humor allowed us to look at the stark
reality of the photographs and place them in a broader
perspective so we could use the knowledge and not be
paralyzed by it." Dr. Gwen Dungy, Senior Fellow, AAC&U.
1994) County College of Morris, English Dept., "A Social Issue
and Self Portrait."
1993) Morris County Teen Arts Festival, "Documentary
photography: a personal Journey."
1993) County College of Morris, Faculty program
1991) Vermont College Colloquium: Invitational Lecture ,"The
Process of Preparing a Book for Publication"
1991) Exposure: Gateway Cable TV, Newark, NJ: interview and
slides, "No Easy Walk."
1990) Norbert Considine Gallery, Princeton, NJ: invitational
lecture
1989) Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ: invitational lecture
1989) Scotch Plains/Fanwood High School, Scotch Plains, NJ:
invitational lecture, "Homelessness."
1988) Kean University of NJ, Union : invitational lecture and
slide presentation, "Visual Sociology, A Personal Approach."
1988) Kean University of NJ, Union : video presentation,
"Visual Sociology, A Personal Approach."
1988) Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY: Sixth Annual
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, "The
Visual Sociology Process."
1988) The International Center for Photography, New York,
NY: invitational lecture, "Preparing the Manuscript
for
Publication."
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Education:
1997) Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, MaryEllen Mark.
1985-87) Vermont College, Norwich University; M.A. Visual
Sociology
1977 -78) Kean College, Union, NJ Teaching Certification: Art K-12
1972-77) Kean College, B.A. (Cum Laude) Studio Art
1975-82) The International Center for Photography, NYC.
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Experience:
Independent Visual Sociologist
1992-99) H.O.M.E., Inc. Orland, Maine. Board Member.
1988-2000) County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ
Adjunct Associate Professor: Photography, Photo
Journalism
90—95) On the Issues (Publication), Forest Hills, NY
Contributing editor
1988) NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Instructor: Photography
1988—91) Kean College of NJ, Union, NJ
Professor: Photography
1988—91) Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Instructor: Photography Workshops
1988—90) Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
Instructor: Photography Workshops
1984—88) Scotch Plains/Fanwood High School, Scotch Plains,
NJ.
Teacher: Photography
1982—84 St. Anthony High School, Jersey City, NJ.
Teacher: Art, Sociology
1977—82) Independent Press, New Providence, NJ
Photo-Journalist, Copy Camera Operator
1975-) Documentary Photographer (Freelance)
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