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This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

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The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

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Benedict Fernandez

Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

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Photographer Benedict Fernandez taught at both Parsons and the New School for Social Research, where he founded the Bachelor's of Fine Arts program in photography.
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Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

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Benedict Fernandez taught in the New School’s photography department in the 1960’s. You can read more about him here.

If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Benedict Fernandez, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.

Benedict Fernandez
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