John Rosenthal's work has been exhibited throughout North Carolina and the Southeast. His one-person shows include exhibits at Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, Salem College, Hollins College, the Asheville Museum of Art, the School of Design at North Carolina State University, the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle, the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and the Somerhill Gallery; additionally, Mr. Rosenthal's work has been displayed in numerous group shows, including those at SECCA, the Gilliam & Peden Art Gallery in Raleigh, the Wolfe Street Gallery of Alexandria, Va. and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.
John Rosenthal
circa 1950

As a guest-lecturer Mr. Rosenthal has spoken a number of times at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and served as a visiting lecturer for five years at Duke University’s Institute of the Arts. Mr. Rosenthal has written photography criticism for the Spectator magazine of Raleigh, The Independent, the Arts Journal as well as many essays published in the The Sun and Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art. His play, Stories, Sermons, and the Grace of Women was produced by WUNC-radio and presented at the Playmaker's Theater of Chapel Hill in 1988.

Mr. Rosenthal's commentary on photography and related matters can be heard on WUNC-radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio, and since March 1990 he has been a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. In 1998 a collection of Mr. Rosenthal’s photographs, Regarding Manhattan, was published by Safe Harbor Books.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


2000 "Walking The City." Slide presentation and essay at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Art Society. North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, NC.

2000 "Amazing Conversations." Stubborn Light: The Best of The Sun, Volume III. Edited by Sy Safransky.

2000 "Getting Lost." Five Points. Vol. 3, No. 2. Georgia State University.

1999 "One Afternoon." In Brief: Short Takes On The Personal. Edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones. W.W.W. Norton & Company. New York, New York.

1998 Regarding Manhattan: Photographs by John Rosenthal. Sunapee Editions. 96 pages. Enfield, NH.

1998 Catalogue Essay: Frank Hunter: Laments. Jackson Fine Art. Atlanta, GA.

1997 "Frankie and Patti and Perry and Dean." Five Points. Vol. 2, No. 1. Georgia State University

1996 "Mulberry Street: The Story of a Photograph." Five Points. Vol. 1, No. 1. Georgia State University.

1994 "Remembering The City." A Memoir published in New York, New York (Catalogue). The North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, N.C.

1993 "Sally Mann's Beautiful and Treacherous World." The Sun. June, Issue 210. Chapel Hill, NC

1990 Lecture: "On Photographing the Homeless." City Gallery of Contemporary Art. Raleigh, NC. August, 1990.

1990 Lecture: "Stories and Clues: A Talk About Photography." NC Museum of Art. Raleigh, NC. February, 1990.

1990 "The Ethics of Seeing: An Interview with John Rosenthal" by Michael Read. The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas. Issue 170. Chapel Hill, NC.

1989 "The Marvellous Eye": A photographic seminar. Winter session. Duke Continuing Education. Durham, NC

1988 Stories, Sermons & The Grace of Women. A play written, directed and performed by John Rosenthal and Carol Richard. Playmakers Theater, Chapel Hill, NC and Artspace, Raleigh, NC.

1988 Catalogue essay for "The Psychological Landscape: An Invitational Photography Exhibition," curated by John Rosenthal. Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art. Greensboro, NC.

1988 Lecture: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Discovery of a Dashing New World." NC Museum of Art. February, 1988. Raleigh, NC.

1988 "An Interview by John Rosenthal with Emmet Gowin and Helen Gee," published in National Aperture 3 Exhibition Catalogue. Hunter Publishing Company. Winston-Salem, NC.

1987 "Insisting on Plenitude." ARTVU: Contemporary Southeastern Visual Arts. Essay and photographs. Summer 1987. pp. 34-38. Chapel Hill, NC.

1987 "Design as Meaning: An Artist's View of His World and His Art." Text and photographs. NCArts. Pp. 6-8. NC Arts Council. Raleigh, NC

1987 Catalogue essay: "Barbara Grenell," for Grenell/Koop Exhibition. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

1987 "Stealing Souls: Thoughts on Photography." A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky. The Best of the Sun Vol.II pp. 65-78. Mho & Mho Works. San Diego, CA.

1986 The North Carolina Artists Series: Talks by NC Artists. Lecture delivered at the NC Museum of Art: "The Various Fictions of Truth." Raleigh, NC

1986 "Looking at Photographs." A photographic seminar. Winter session. Duke Continuing Education. NC

1986 "The Fashionable Image." The Arts Journal. Pp. 4,5. Vol.12, No. 1. Asheville, NC.

1985 "Ansel Adams at the National Gallery." Spectator Magazine. Vol. 8, No. 5. December 19. Raleigh, NC.

1985 "Magnificent Obsessions: Thoughts on Diane Arbus." Spectator Magazine, pp. 5-8, Vol. 7, No. 43. September 12. Raleigh, NC.

 

 

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