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February 29th, Boston: “Women in Photography Night” Hosted by Lisa Kessler
Photographic Resource Center
Women in Photography Night hosted by Lisa Kessler
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Presenter slots open to female photographers only, but attendance is open to all who are interested in contemporary work by women, in celebration of Vicki Goldberg’s American Women Photographers lecture this month. Audience members without work are also encouraged to attend. No reservations needed, but participants must bring their curiosity and open-mindedness. Everyone is welcome to bring refreshments.”
February 24th, San Francisco: Artist Lecture by Stephen Shore
- © 2012 Stephen Shore
Pier 24 | California College of the Arts | SFMOMA
Artist Lecture by Stephen Shore
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public. Seating is first, come first served. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
“In 1972, self-taught photographer Stephen Shore set out from his native New York City to Amarillo, Texas, on the first of what would become a decade’s worth of road trips across America. Shore’s trademark photographs of middle-American landscapes, interiors, and figures helped establish color photography as an accepted medium in the world of art. At age twenty-three, he was the second living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Shore has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and, most recently, received a commission from the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art to document the United States in its current state of economic downturn. Since 1982, he has been the Director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York State, where he serves as the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.”
SFMOMA, Phyllis Wattis Theatre
151 3rd Street
San Francisco, California 94103
February 29th, Philadelphia: Artist Talk by Joni Sternbach
- © 2012 Joni Sternbach
The University of the Arts
Artist Talk by Joni sternbach
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 12:00 pm
“Joni Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and seascapes. Her photography has taken her to some of the most remote deserts in the American West to some of the most prized surf beaches around the world. Sternbach is an artist and educator and has taught for many years at various institutions.”
Dorrance Hamilton Hall: CBS Auditorium
320 South Broad Street
(corner of Broad & Pine Streets)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 [map]
February 21st, Albuquerque: Artist Talk by Danny Lyon “The End of the Age of Photography”
- © 2012 Danny Lyon
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Artist Talk by Danny LyonThe End of the Age of Photography
Wednesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Free and open to the public ($5 suggested donation).
Book signing to follow.
“Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942) is recognized as one of the most original and influential photographers in America. A pioneer of the photographic genre of ‘New Journalism,’ Lyon works by immersing himself alongside the life of his subjects. In this way, he has produced major bodies of work in situ including the notorious series, The Bikeriders (1967), in which he became a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle club; and, receiving unprecedented access to death-row inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, he recorded the environs of “lifers,” in Conversations with the Dead (1971). His current project has centered upon “Occupy” rallies in Oakland, New York, and Albuquerque.
Over the last forty years, Lyon has created numerous bodies of groundbreaking work, highly collectible photo books and films. His photography has been featured in major, solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and, the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships for photography and filmmaking, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and ten National Endowment for the Arts awards. He is the founding member of the photography group, Bleak Beauty.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece on view until July 2012.
February 22nd, Philadelphia: Artist Talk by Dan Estabrook
- © 2012 Dan Estabrook
The University of the Arts
Artist Talk by Dan Estabrook
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:30 am
“For over 20 years, Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Recently he has focused on the earliest paper photographs – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. He balances his interests in photography with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing and other works on paper.”
Dorrance Hamilton Hall: CBS Auditorium
320 South Broad Street
(corner of Broad & Pine Streets)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 [map]
February 22nd, Phoenix: Kate Ware “The 10 Most Exciting Photographers I Learned About This Year”
Phoenix Art Museum
Lecture by Kate Ware: The 10 Most Exciting Photographers I Learned About This Year
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Admission: Free and open to the public, seating is limited and first come, first served.
Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, shares her high-points in the field of photography.
Sponsored by the Museum’s INFOCUS photography support organization.
February 22nd, Boston: Lecture by Vicki Goldberg “American Women Photographers”
Photographic Resource Center
Lecture by Vick Goldberg: American Women Photographers
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Admission: $10 General public | $5 Members & Students
“Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, will discuss how and why American women photographers, most prominently Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin, came to the attention of the photography world in the late 1970s and early 1980s after lurking on the fringes for a long time. She will also examine the way the principle concerns of that first crop of important women artists, including the entire appropriation movement, have persisted to the present day and continue to influence photographers.”
PRC at Boston University
Sargent College, Room 101
635 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215 [map]
617-975-0600
February 15th, Phoenix: Artist Talk by Matthew Moore
Phoenix Art Museum
Artist talk by Matthew Moore
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
“An Arizona-based artist and farmer, Matthew Moore (b. 1976) is the last of four generations to farm his family’s land. Through his art, using the legacy and scale of Land Art, Moore explores the loss of farmland to urban growth in the metropolitan Phoenix area, as well as contemporary consumers’ alienation from the basic principles of agriculture. And the Land Grew Quiet: New Work by Matthew Moore represents an innovative and new direction in Moore’s work, contrasting the cycles of development and speculation in our own time with those of the Great Depression by mixing technology and nature as well as fiction and history. It is conceived as a single project that maps urban growth on the land and nature’s resistance to the man-made within the sublime context of the harsh but awe-inspiring landscape and climate of central Arizona.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with Moore’s exhibition And the Land Grew Quiet: New Work by Matthew Moore, on view until June 10, 2012.
Phoenix Art Museum
McDowell Road & Central Avenue
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004
February 22nd, Cincinnati: Artist Talk by Uta Barth
- © 2012 Uta Barth
FOTOFOCUS Lecture Series
Artist Talk by Uta Barth
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Admission: Free and open to the public, parking is $4. Reservations not required.
Reception to follow.
“Uta Barth is internationally recognized for images bordering on painterly abstraction. The artist renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames, and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments which exist almost exclusively within our periphery. With deliberate disregard for both the conventional photographic subject and the point and shoot role of the camera, Barth’s work deconstructs the conventions of visual representation, calling attention to the limits of the human eye.”
Cincinnati Art Museum, Fath Auditorium
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 [map]
February 21st, NYC: Lecture by Max Kozloff
School of Visual Arts
Lecture by Max Kozloff
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Photography may be considered the ideal medium for fishing out things, appearances and events that don’t make sense or otherwise defy reason. In this lecture art historian and critic Max Kozloff will discuss the havoc wreaked upon the notion of story in photography by writers sympathetic to the element of chance, maintaining that as an explanatory principle to explain what happens, chance explains nothing. This will be illustrated by various photographs featuring the smiles of women.”
School of Visual Arts Theatre
333 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, New York