Table of Contents

Director’s Foreword v
Acknowledgements vii
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College / Julie J. Thomson 1
Five Photographers 73
Snapshots 76
The Flattest Kind of Picture: Texture and Matière in Photography at Black Mountain College / Michael Beggs 79
Photographer Biographies 82
Select Chronology of Photographers and Photography at BMC 85

About the Author

Julie J. Thomson is an independent scholar and curator who lives in Durham, North Carolina. She has been researching and writing about photographers at Black Mountain College since 2015 and the artist Ray Johnson since 2006. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies and Raw Vision, among other publications. Michael Beggs spent four years studying Josef Albers's photographs and photographic practice while employed at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"Begin to See will become a standard reference guide on the photographers at Black Mountain College. The chronology at the end is so useful to scholars and archivists." -- Leslie Squyres, Senior Archivist, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona