Brief Career Chronology Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Awards Collections Publications Photographs Published in Articles About Reviews Teaching Lectures Other Professional Activities

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1988		September Celebration, Mobile, Alabama, For Art’s Sake
1989		M.C. Farmer Terminal Building, Mobile Municipal Airport, Mobile, Alabama, Three Alabama Artists The Keepers of Light Gallery, Mobile, Alabama, Gallery Artists Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama, Fine Art: The Best of Mobile
1990		Alinder Gallery, Gualala, California, Shoot the Earth: Portrait of a Planet Whirling On Alinder Gallery, Gualala, California, Picture Presents
1992		James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Bucks Biennial
1993		Alinder Gallery, Gualala, California, United Artists Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, California, WINTER–Photographs of the Season
1994		Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois, The Ross Collection: Photographs by the Great Masters of the 19th and 20th Century American Association of Museums Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington
1995		Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama, and Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties
1996		Photographic Archives Gallery, Dallas, Texas, The Second Annual Portfolio Show Scott Nichols Gallery, Hotel Triton Art Fair, San Francisco, California
1997		Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Poetics of Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake Legacy Gallery, Newtown, Pennsylvania, Contemporary Photographers and Their Personal Visions Eight Elm Film & Video, Toronto, Canada, A Larger View
1998		Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York, American Farm Aperture Gallery, Salt Lake City
2000		Historic Yellow Spings, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, Photography: Contemporary Prospect 2000 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, The Big Picture: Ultra Large-Format Photograph
2001		Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection
2002		Owen/Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hometown: Philadelphia-area Photographers In The Photo Review Gallery Z, Overland Park, Kansas, Gallery Artists Magnifico Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Large Format Photography in New Mexico: Then and Now Brigham City Museum, Brigham City, Utah, The Great American West: The Black and White Landscape
2003		Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, American Landscape Photography After Ansel Adams The Grolier Club, New York, New York, The Auroral Light: Photographs by Women from Grolier Club Member Collections Eremo di Santa Caterina, Isola d'Elba, Italy, Hortulus animae : Il roseto di Santa Caterina e l'arte contemporanea
2004		Bucks County Community College Artmobile, Newtown, Pennsylvania, Not Just Another Reality Show
2005		Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Photography as Fine Art
2006		Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas, Making Panhandle Pictures Paris Photo, Paris France
2007		Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, On Ice

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AWARDS:

1995		Grant from the Summerlee Foundation, Dallas, Texas, in support of High Plains Farm Grant from the Texas Historical Foundation, Austin, Texas, in support of High Plains Farm
1996		Grant from the Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for "Excellence in Photograpy"

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COLLECTIONS:

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Cray Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Maitland Art Center, Maitland, Florida Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas St. Petersburg Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, Florida The Buhl Collection, New York, New York Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas University of North Texas, Denton, Texas University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas

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1994		Natural Connections: Photographs by Paula Chamlee, essay by Estelle Jussim, Lodima Press, Revere, Pennsylvania
1996		High Plains Farm, Foreword by George F. Thompson, Lodima Press, Revere, Pennsylvania
1996		High Plains Farm: A Unique Portfolio, Portfolio of original photographs, Edition of fifteen, Ottsville, Pennsylvania
1997		San Francisco: Twenty Corner Markets and One in the Middle of the Block, Lodima Press, Revere, Pennsylvania
1997		San Francisco: Twenty Corner Markets and One in the Middle of the Block, Portfolio of original photographs, Edition of three, Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2000		A Field in Tuscany, Portfolio of original photographs, Edition of ten, Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2004		Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Volume I, Essay by Robert Sobieszek, Foreword by Ferenc Máté, Lodima Press, Revere, Pennsylvania
2004		Madonnina, Essay by Giuliana Bianchi Galeri, Foreword by Steven Maklansky, Lodima Press, Revere, Pennsylvania
2006		Black & White Magazine, Arroyo Grande, California, December 2006, Issue #47. “Unexpected Encounters in Iceland” Photographs and text

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PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED IN:

AmericanPHOTO New York, New York January/February, 1990 (1 reproduction)

View Camera Sacramento, California May/June, 1991 (1 reproduction)

Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston Houston, Texas Issue #39, Fall, 1997 Texas Places (Cover plus 9 reproductions)

Lenswork Quarterly Portland, Oregon Portfolio (12 reproductions) Interview on CD-ROM

The Land Report, Number 63 Salina, Kansas Spring 1999, (Front and Back Cover plus 1 reproduction)

View Camera, September/October 1999 (1 reproduction)

The Land Report, Number 64, Summer 1999. Salina, Kansas (3 reproductions)

The Land Report, Number 65, Fall 1999. Salina, Kansas (Front and Back Cover plus 3 reproductions)

View Camera, March/April 2000, "High Plain Farm Portraits," Photographs and text

Photographers' Companion, Beijing, China February/2002 "High Plains Farm," Photographs; text in Chinese

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ARTICLES ABOUT:

Delaware Valley News, Frenchtown, NJ August 17, 1995. "Their Life is Really in Focus," by James Heaphy

New Hope Gazette, New Hope, PA October 3, 1996. "Foundation awards $120,000 to women photographers–Judith Taylor, Paula Chamlee receive grants."

Doylestown Intelligencer, Doylestown, Pennsylvania October 22, 1996. "Grants Fuel Careers," by Steve Wartenberg

Amarillo Sunday News-Globe Amarillo, Texas November 10, 1996. Life on the Plains," by Jeff Rhoads

The Ithaca Times, Ithaca New York January 9–15, 1997. "Close Contact," by Alison Shaw

The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio March 12, 1997. "Parallel Views," by Tim Feran

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California December 13, 1997. "The Shops Around the Corner– Photographer captures life in family markets," by Sam Whiting

View Camera, Sacramento, California, September/October 1999 "Mammoth Cameras," by Steve Simmons. Review of workshop in Salt Lake City

View Camera, Sacramento, California, September/October 2000 "Seeing the Big Picture," by Lance Duffin

Business Week, New York, New York, April 30, 2001 "An Art Form Comes of Age," by Thane Peterson

Chinese Photography, Beijing, China, January, 2003, "The Story of an American Photographers Couple," Photographs; text in Chinese Bucks County Herald, Lahaska, Pennsylvania, March 27, 2003. "Photographers featured at Byers Bucks Fever Exhibit: Smith and Chamlee live and work in Ottsville," by Karen Gross

The Doylestown Patriot, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, March 27, 2003. "Got the Fever? CBCC Art Exhibit Set to Open," by Jill Yris

Vega Enterprise, Vega Texas, April 10, 2003. “Through the Viewfinder: Interview with Paula Chamlee and Michael Smith,” by Linda Drake

Professional Photographer, Norcross, Georgia, August 2003. “Black and White Fine Art,” by Richard Pitnick

Black & White Magazine, Arroyo Grande, California, February 2004, Issue #29. “A Photographic Odyssey,” by Richard Pitnick

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REVIEWS:

Photo Review, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Summer issue, 1995. Review of Natural Connections: Photographs by Paula Chamlee, by Stephen Perloff

Amarillo Sunday News-Globe, Amarillo, Texas, November 10, 1996. Review of High Plains Farm, by Shelley Armitage

El Paso Herald Post, El Paso, Texas April 30, 1997 Review of High Plains Farm: "Books take different paths into the past," by Mary Sarber

Books of the Week, Los Angeles, California May, 1997 Review of High Plains Farm: "U.S. farm life–in pictures," by John Austin

Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, Texas July 13, 1997 Review of High Plains Farm: "Daughter records tribute to parents’ way of life," by Judyth Rigler

Herald Democrat, Denison,Texas, August 17, 1997 Review of High Plains Farm: "High Plains Farm is a treasure," by Jerry Lincecum

Texas Books in Review, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Southwest Texas State University San Marcos, Texas, Winter/Spring 1997–1998 Review of High Plains Farm:" A Longing Look Back at a Disappearing Texas"

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, Texas, 1997 Review of High Plains Farm exhibition at the Museum of the Llano Estacado, "Chamlee’s Photographs Capture Feel of Growing up on Farm" by Phillip L. Hamilton

Panhandle Plains Historical Review Canyon, Texas (in press) Review of High Plains Farm, by Joseph Walsh

Great Plains Quarterly Spring 1998 Review of High Plains Farm, by Bill Ganzel

The Western Library Journal 1999 Vol. 38. No. 1 Review of High Plains Farm, by J.W. Graves

Panhandle-Plains Historical Review: 70 1997 Review of High Plains Farm by Joseph Walsh

Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 1998. Review of High Plains Farm, by Bill Ganzel

The Western Library Journal, 1999 Vol. 38. No. 1. Review of High Plains Farm, by J.W. Graves

Philadelphia Weekly, November 13, 2002, Review of exhibition at the Open Lens Gallery at the Gershman Y

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 2003, Review of exhibition at the Travis Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, Husband and wife showcase visions of Tuscan landscape, by Victoria Donohoe

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 2003, Review of exhibition at the Travis Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, “Husband and wife showcase visions of Tuscan landscape,” by Victoria Donohoe

Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 4, 2003, “Tuscan Magic” by Jerry Cullum

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TEACHING:

1988		Instructor in Photography, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama
1989		Instructor in Photography, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama Conducted Workshop, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama Conducted Workshop, Leinkauf School, Mobile, Alabama
1992		Instructor in Photography, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania
1994		Co-conducted Workshop (with Michael A. Smith), Academy of Film and Photography in Prague, Czech Republic
1999		Conducted Workshop (with Michael A. Smith) at Lotus View Camera, Ostermiething, Austria Conducted Workshop, "Mammoth and Panoramic Photography," (with Michael A. Smith and Tillman Crane), Waterford Institute, Sandy, Utah Conducted Workshop, "Vision and Technique" (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2000		Conducted Workshop, "Mammoth and Panoramic Photography," (with Michael A. Smith and Tillman Crane), Waterford Institute, Sandy, Utah Conducted Workshop, "Vision and Technique" (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2001		Conducted Workshop, Waterford Institute (with Michael A. Smith), Sandy, Utah Conducted Workshop, "Vision and Technique" (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania Conducted Workshop (with Michael A. Smith), Pforzhiem, Germany
2002		Conducted Master Class (with Michael A. Smith), Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland Conducted two Workshops, "Vision and Technique" (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2003		Conducted Workshop, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Pasadena, California Conducted four Workshops, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania Conducted Workshop, “The Next Step: Marketing your Photographs (with Michael A. Smith and Mary Virginia Swanson), Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2004		Conducted Workshop, “Vision,” (with Michael A. Smith), Monterey, California Conducted Workshops, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania Conducted Workshop, Iceland (with Michael A. Smith)
2005		Conducted Workshops, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania
2006		Conducted Workshop,  “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Sedona, Arizona Conducted Workshop, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Ottsville, Pennsylvania Conducted Workshop at APUG Conference, Toronto, Ontario Conducted Workshop in Iceland (with Michael A. Smith)
2007		Conducted Workshop, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Sedona, Arizona Conducted Workshop, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Black Mountain, Australia Conducted Workshop, “Vision and Technique” (with Michael A. Smith), Tuscany

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LECTURES:

1992		Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania
1994		American Cultural Center, Prague, Czech Republic
1995		Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, California Photographic Archives Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996		Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1997		Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, Texas
1998		University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2001		St. Petersburg Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, Florida University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee
2002		Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
2003		Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania Travis Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania
2004		Large Format Conference, Monterey, California Large Format Photography Collective, Cromwell, Connecticut Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
2006		APUG Conference, Toronto, Ontario Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2007		Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, Arizona

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1986–1989		Board of Advisors, Art and the Alabama Woman, Mobile, Alabama
1989		Advisory Board of the American Sport Art Museum and Archives, United States Sports Academy, Daphne, Alabama
1989		Juror, Camera South Exhibition, Mobile, Alabama
1996		PBS documentary film about High Plains Farm, produced by KACV-TV, Amarillo, Texas
2002		Conference Participant and Presenter: Large Format Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2003		Panel Member—On Collecting Photography, Travis Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania

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