Awards

Honorary Degree - 1982

D.F.A.

Doctor of Fine Arts

Fine Arts & Music Dedication

Bloomington, Indiana

Presenter: John William Ryan

Herman Frederic Lieber Award - 1968

About Henry H. Smith

Henry H. Smith received his B.S. from Ohio State University in 1933. He then attended the Chicago Art Institute from 1929 to 1930, and Illinois State Normal University from 1927 to 1928 & 1930 to 1932.

Smith was a lifelong freelance photographer. He joined the photography faculty at Indiana University Bloomington in 1953 as an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 1965, and a full Professor in 1977. He retired in 1982 as a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts.

Smith's lectures and exhibitions were widely published, including his catalog entitled "Henry Holmes Smith's Art Fifty Years in Retrospect", and an anthology called "On Photography" published in 1970. Smith was well respected as a writer about photography and influenced major photographers like Jerry Uelsmann, Betty Hahn and Jack Welpott. Smith is also credited with taking philosophical ideas of Moholy-Nagy about light and color in photography and putting them into practice all the while educating others.

Smith was awarded a D.F.A. from the Maryland Institute and College of Art in 1968, and was the founding member of the Society for Photographic Education.