Discipline: Visual Art

Mark Haven

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981

Mark Haven has combined a career of teaching, exhibitions, and editorial photography over the last 40 years. In the U.S. he has done assignment work for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, New York Magazine, and Harper’s. His work has appeared in DoubleTake and Nest Magazine. In Europe he has published work in Zoom International (Italy), Zeit Magazin (Germany); Das Magazin (Switzerland), and Moda (Italy). His documentary projects include a beach resort for nuns, St. Mary’s by-the-Sea; Harper Park, a mobile home community; and The Commute, a document of an American Highway. His work is in numerous private collections, including the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is a Professor Emeritus from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has taught photography workshops in New York City at the International Center of Photography (ICP), Italy, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and most recently, Havana, Cuba.

Studios

Putnam

Mark Haven worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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