Ron Tarver
Associate Professor of Art
Areas of Expertise
- Photography
- Photojournalism
- Socially engaged art
- History of photography
Publications
- The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2024)
- We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins, 2004)
- Camden, NJ: Spirit Invincible (List Gallery, 2016)
Affiliations
In the News
- B&H Photography Podcast - "Black Cowboys & Rodeo Culture, with Ron Tarver & Ivan McClellan"
- Fox - "Good Day Uncut: Hank is horsing around with Ron Tarver"
- WHYY - "A Philly photographer captures the glory days of the Black cowboy"
- The Texas Standard - "‘The Long Ride Home’: New photo book spotlights Black cowboys in contemporary America"
- The Philadelphia Inquirer - "The Philly photographer who spent decades photographing the beauty and majesty of Black cowboys"
- Hyperallergic - “Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys”
- USA Today - “Before ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Ron Tarver spent 30 years photographing Black cowboys”
- HuffPost - "Unveiling The Untold History Of Black Cowboys And Shattering The Myth Of The White West
- WHYY - "Michener Museum shows 40 years of helping artists get a leg up"
- 6abc - "House of the Living greenhouse in Montgomery County honoring victims of gun violence"
- The Philadelphia Inquirer - "The House of the Living is a fitting name for a new monument in Elkins Park honoring the victims of gun violence"
- The Philadelphia Citizen - "House of the Living"
- The Conversation- "For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas – horses and riding are a way of life"
- KRQE - "The life of the Black cowboy rides into history at the Harwood Museum of Art"
- The New York Times - "Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range"
- Milwaukee Independent - "Where Horses And Riding Are A Way Of Life: Ron Tarver’s Journey To Document The Black Cowboy Experience"
- The New Yorker - "Black Cowboys, Busting One of America’s Defining Myths"
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