See the University through the eyes of Distinguished Alumnus and renowned professional photographer Robin Hood this fall! Selected images by Hood will be on display from October 24 to November 22, 2011 on the ground and upper floors of the Atrium Gallery in the University Center.
These photographs were selected from a much larger body of images by Hood commissioned for a special book about the campus and published to commemorate and coincide with the University’s 125th Anniversary Celebration.
Hood’s photographs capture well known and often passed places and spaces of our campus but do so in a way they are seldom truly seen at a single fraction of time bathed in a particular light. His images of campus activities also monumentalize the moment shot from an unusual angle and view that only the camera can provide.
“I approach every subject with the eye of a painter,” Hood remarked in an interview with The Nashville Arts Magazine. “I first really touched a camera in Vietnam…I had never had a photography class. In fact, I have never had one yet.”
Robin Hood studied painting at the University of Chattanooga before receiving a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and serving as an information Officer in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. In 1978 as a photographer for the Chattanooga Free Press, Hood was presented with a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for a photograph he took during the Armed Forces Day parade in Chattanooga. In 1985 he formed Robin Hood Photography, pairing his artistic vision with entrepreneurship and producing work for national advertising, commissioned books, and corporate communications. Hood’s best known books include The Tennesseans in which he chronicled former governor Lamar Alexander’s campaign across the state, and Friends a photographic memoir of Alexander and Hood’s visits to Japan
The 125th Anniversary Commemorative book containing these and other photographs of the campus by Robin Hood is available for purchase from the UTC Bookstore. For more information about Robin Hood visit www.robinhoodphoto.com.
