AMHERST, MA.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College has placed on view nine works from its collection by renowned photographer, filmmaker and Hampshire College professor Jerome “Jerry” Liebling, who passed away on July 27. Born in Brooklyn in 1924, Liebling studied photography with Walter Rosenblum at Brooklyn College and with Paul Strand as part of the socially minded New York Photo League. The aspiring artist also studied film at The New School for Social Research. In 1949, already established as a pioneering street photographer along with Berenice Abbott and Gordon Parks, Liebling founded one of the country’s first college-level photography and film programs at the University of Minnesota. In 1969, Liebling moved to Amherst and founded the photography and film program at the fledgling Hampshire College, where he remained an inspiring and beloved teacher until his retirement in 1990. His legacies as an artist