The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Jack Lueders-Booth as a visiting artist of the Spring 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, April 21.

Born John Edward Cuneo in 1935, self-taught photographer Jack Lueders-Booth left a business management career at age 35 to pursue nagging interests in photography. He taught photography at Harvard University from 1970 to 1999, where he was three times nominated for Harvard University’s highest teaching honor, The Joseph P. Levinson Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 1978, he received a master’s degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. In 1999, he left Harvard to devote more time to his photography, while retaining the “the nurturing influence of students, and the stimulation of teaching” through part time teaching appointments at The Rhode Island School of Design, Tufts University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Art Institute of Boston. He was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH, and was Visiting Artist at Yale University Graduate School of Art and Design in New Haven CT.

Lueders-Booth photographs are in the collections of The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Harvard University Art Museums, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress, The Art Institute of Chicago. He has received Visual Arts Fellowships and/or commissions from The Addison Gallery of American Art, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and The Library of Congress. Lueders-Booth, and National Book Award winner, Luis Alberto Urrea were twice nominated for Duke University’s Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Grant.

His photographs have been published by Aperture (3x), The Atlantic, Doubletake, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Graphis Press, The Harvard Advocate, The Stone Fence Review, The Library of Congress (5x).

Books:

Inherit the Land, introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea, and essay by Frank Gohlke; Pond Press, 2005

The Orange Line, Stanley Barker, 2022

Women Prisoner Polaroids, Stanley Barker, 2024

American Motorcycling Culture, Stanley Barker, 2025.

Collaborative books (photographs accompanying Luis Alberto Urrea’s writing): Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on The Mexican Border, Anchor Books/Random House 1993; By The Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of The American Border, Anchor Books/Random House 1996

Lueders-Booth continues to photograph, publish, exhibit, and lecture. He has six adult children, Douglass, Laura, Gregory, Peter, Lucy, and Evelyn, thirteen grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Avocations include classical guitar, tennis, chess, and through 2020, motorcycle racing.

All Photography lectures are free and open to the public. 

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu

Image detail: Jack Lueders-Booth, The Blessing of the Motorcycles, Colebroke N.H., 1985, from American Motorcycling Culture