Publications

Forthcoming… Pulsations 4, twenty photographs featured in scholarly journal of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2024.

Black Indians of New Orleans, Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, France, 2 of my photographs reproduced in special edition of 3,000 copies, 2022.

Charles Muir Lovell, Photographer Portfolio. AllAboutPhoto.com. 2022.

Back When The Good Times Rolled 2009 to 2020, Solo Exhibition, curated by Aline Smithson. AllAboutPhoto.com, From January 01, 2022 to January 31, 2022.

2021 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch.com. January 01, 2022.

Cooper, Judy, Dancing in the Streets, Historic New Orleans Collection, features my photographs in book and exhibition on subject of New Orleans second lines scheduled for February 2021.

“The Art of Procession,” 64 Parishes, pp. 34–41, Spring 2020, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, New Orleans, story and photo essay, “Photographer Charles Muir Lovell’s work reflects the power of place.”

Vaz-Deville, Kim, Walking Raddy: Contemporary Scholars and Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls, University of Mississippi Press: Oxford, 2018.

Vaz-Deville, Kim, Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls, exhibition brochure, The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African Art, Xavier University, New Orleans, April 2015. 

Frida Kahlo: Face to Face, by Judy Chicago, New York: Prestel, reproduction of color photograph from Mexico, 2010. 

Art Elements: Biological, Global, and Interdisciplinary Foundations by Cynthia Bickley-Green, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, reproduction of photograph, 2010.

Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth Century Retablo Tradition, 350-page book published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, now in second printing, includes twelve of my color photographs of religious practices in Mexico, 1999. 

Entre Lineas II, book published in Spanish and English in conjunction with international art competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the Museo de Arte e Historia, Juarez, Mexico, Coyoacan, Mexico, DF: Disem, my illustrations and biography on pp. 144–145, 1997.

Photographs by Charles Lovell: Paradox in Black and White, exhibition brochure, University Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, BC, Mexico, 1994.

Pensacola National Portrait Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola, Florida, exhibition catalog, reproduction on p. 3, 1984.

New Photographics ’84, Sarah Spurgeon Art Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, author of catalog introduction, 1984. 

Dallas Art III, exhibition brochure for Dallas City Hall, Texas, my photograph from England on p. 29, 1980.

 Reviews and Articles 

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, “Exclusive Interview with Charles Lovell,” online interview. June 8, 2022. https://www.all-about-photo.com/photo-articles/photo-article/1184/exclusive-interview-with-charles-lovell.

Lenscratch, “The 2020 Lenscratch Vote Exhibition,” online exhibition, organized by Aline Smithson, Nov. 1, 2020.

Charles Muir Lovell, “The Art of Procession,” 64 Parishes, Spring 2020, https://64parishes.org/art-of-procession.

Lenscratch, “Your Best Photograph of 2019,” online exhibition, organized by Aline Smithson, Jan. 1, 2020.

Brian Friedman, “How Venice Shaped Charles Lovell’s Work” at Second Story Gallery, ViaNolaVie, audio and podcast article, Dec. 19, 2019.

Charles Muir Lovell, “The Second Line: Part II,” Oxford American, Eyes on the South, curated by Jeff Rich, Jan. 15, 2019, https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1674-the-second-line-part-two. 

“On Monuments and Post-Monuments,” Pelican Bomb, Allison Glenn, Aug. 23, 2017, two of my photographs illustrate article on Confederate monument removal in New Orleans, http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2017/on-monuments-and-post-monuments.

“Artists in Their Own Words,” Kelley Crawford, ViaNolaVie, Dec. 22, 2017, discussion of Off The Street: New Orleans and Venice in Charles Lovell’s Photography exhibition, with five illustrations, http://www.vianolavie.org/2017/12/22/artists-in-their-own-words-charles-lovell/.

Charles Muir Lovell, “The Second Line,” Oxford American, Eyes on the South, curated by Jeff Rich, Jan. 9, 2017 link, https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1067-the-second-line.

Pelican Bomb, “Preserving New Orleans Second Line Culture,” November 2016, http://pelicanbomb.com/events/2016/11/12/opening-reception-preserving-new-orleans-second-line-culture.

Country Roads, Preserving New Orleans Second Line Culture, November–December 2016, http://countryroadsmagazine.com/events/preserving-new-orleans-second-line-culture.

 WWOZ, “Preserving Second Line Culture: A New Exhibit,” Nov. 3, 2016, https://www.wwoz.org/blog/157061.

Lenscratch, Last Day of Summer, online exhibition, organized by Aline Smithson, Sept. 2, 2016.

Cameron Shaw, “Rendering Hell and High Water,” New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure, pp. 1 and 15, review of Reverb: Past, Present, Future exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and two other New Orleans exhibitions on Hurricane Katrina’s 10-year anniversary, Aug. 23, 2015, pp. 1 and 14. 

Reverb: Past, Present, Future, Review with illustration photograph, “Young Men Olympian, Jr.,” “Whitney White Linen Night,” by Doug MacCash, Nola.com/New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 16, 2015

D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit, New Orleans, review, “Contemporary Artists Respond to New Orleans Baby Dolls exhibition at the McKenna Museum of African Art,” April 6, 2015. 

Artvoices magazine, Spring 2014, feature article on Charles M. Lovell, Terrence Sanders, ed., p. 71.

D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 29, 2014, p. 45, review of exhibitions The Photographer Is a Thief and Mexico, Te Quiero. 

New Orleans Times-Picayune, Steve Forster, review, NOLA NOW II, Contemporary Arts Center, March 25, 2012, D-3. 

Making a Few Stops on Hargett Street, Chuck Twardy, News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec. 4, pp. 3 and 5, 1992.

Listed in Who’s Who in America, 44th and 45th editions.

Best of College Photography Award, Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum magazine, Santa Barbara, California, 1984.

Photographer Saves Moments, Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington, Oct. 26, p. 3, 1982.