Publish Your Photography BookTag: lecture
April 12th, Akron: Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
- © 2012 Bea Nettles
Akron Museum of Art
Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public: Reservations required.
Book signing at 6:00 pm
“The photographs of Bea Nettles often depict the artist’s intimate family life, yet they also speak to the broad ideas of what it means to be a mother, teacher and artist, which she describes as her greatest roles. The focus of this exhibition, a survey of the museum’s collection of Nettles’ photographs, is the artist’s use of autobiographical imagery, animated by her experimental processes.
Many of her images contain metaphoric views of domesticity and motherhood. This poetic approach is apparent throughout her career with the inclusion of text in images, inventive bookmaking and self-publishing. The museum’s collection also contains works made from Polaroids, etchings and digital and dye transfer prints, all of which are gifts of the artist.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with her exhibition, String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles, on view until July 22, 2012.
Akron Art Museum
1 South High
Akron, Ohio 44308 [map]
April 10th, Albuquerque: Lecture by James Enyeart “Lee Friedlander: Truth In Excess of Fact”
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Lecture by James Enyeart: Lee Friedlander: Truth In Excess of Fact
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“James Enyeart is a renowned authority on photography and has authored or edited over two dozen publications including, Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones, Architectural America. He has been internationally recognized and awarded the Josef Sudek Medal from Czechoslovakia; the Photographic Society of Japan Achievement Award; the Photokina Obelisk in Cologne, Germany, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Mr. Enyeart has served several institutions in leadership capacities including three directorships: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; and, founding director of the Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the former College of Santa Fe.
Book signing with Jim Enyeart featuring Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones following the evening’s lecture.”
UNM Art Museum
1909 Las Lomas Road Northeast
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 [map]
April 10th, San Francisco: Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
© 2012 LaToya Ruby Frazier
Pier 24 | California College of the Arts | SFMOMA
Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“LaToya Ruby Frazier‘s photography and video work employs such themes as the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and human complexity. Frazier’s nine-year artistic collaboration with her family has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice.”
California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, California 94107
April 12th, Los Angeles: Artist Talk by Julie Blackmon “The Power of Now and Other Tales From Home”
- © 2012 Julie Blackmon
Annenberg Space for Photography, Iris Nights Lecture Series
Artist Talk by Julie Blackmon
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:30-8:00 pm
Free and open to the public; tickets are required. Online registration for this event begins Wednesday, April 4 at 12pm PT and Thursday, April 5 at 9:30am PT.
“The oldest of nine children and now a mother of three, photographer Julie Blackmon binds her past to her present with a portrait of domesticity depicting a compound of anxiety, ambivalence, and amusement.
In this lecture, Blackmon will discuss her start as a photographer, her process, influences and the source of her inspiration.”
The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 10
Los Angeles, California 90067 [map]
April 10th, Cambridge: Artist Talk by Todd Hido
Harvard Art Museums
Artist Talk by Todd Hido
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6:00-8:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“Todd Hido, in conversation with Sharon Harper, Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Todd Hido makes night photographs of suburban neighborhoods, using long exposures to capture the effects of fog, and light from streetlamps and windows. Hido’s project relates closely to Feininger’s atmospheric night photographs of the Bauhaus building and the surrounding neighborhood.”
Harvard Art Museums
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
April 10th, Syracuse: Artist Talk by William Wegman
- © 2012 William Wegman
Urban Video Project at the Everson Museum of Art
Artist Talk by William Wegman
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 6:30 pm
This talk is in conjunction with Wegman’s video installation Fo Flow at the Everson Museum of Art. The video is being projected onto the north façade of the museum, it will be on view until April 30th.
“The video, Flo Flow, is William Wegman’s latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970′s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman’s photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman’s uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of ‘animals’ and the strangeness of humans.
About the Artist
William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. In the fall of 1970 he moved to Southern California where he taught for one year at California State College, Long Beach. By the early 70s, Wegman’s work was being exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher Gallery in Dusseldorf , his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as “When Attitudes Become Form,” and “Documenta V” and regularly featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and Avalanche.”
Everson Museum of Art
Artist Talk to be held in the Auditorium
401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, New York 13202 [map]
April 2nd, NYC: Artist Talk by James Casebere
Aperture Gallery 
Artist Talk by James Casebere
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“While James Casebere‘s earlier bodies of work focused on American mythologies such as the genre of the western and suburban home, in the early 1990s, he turned his attention to institutional buildings. In more recent years, his subject matter focused on various institutional spaces and the relationship between social control, social structure, and the mythologies that surround particular institutions, as well as the broader implications of dominant systems such as commerce, labor, religion, and law.
In 2001, Sean Kelly Gallery presented an exhibition of Casebere’s works from 1999 to the present, including those inspired by the indigenous architecture of the Caribbean Island of Nevis, traditional Japanese architecture, and an imagined gallery space. This exhibition also featured a now well-known body of work inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s utopian Monticello. In the following years he has continued to investigate a wide range of iconic architectural spaces, resulting in increasingly sophisticated layers of interpretation. Two photographs from his most recent series, Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY), were featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.”
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York [map]
(212) 505-5555
April 2012 is Portland Photo Month
“April 2012 is Portland Photo Month! Join us in celebrating the art, history and practice of photography during the 2nd annual Portland Photo Month. Exhibitions, discussions and projections will dot our great city! Venture out, learn about, and celebrate Portland, Oregon’s city-wide focus on photography.”
To see the artist talks and receptions planned throughout the month click here.
To see the many different exhibitions throughout the city, click here.
June 7th-10th, Boston: Flash Forward Festival 2012
Magenta Foundation
Flash Forward Festival Boston
June 7-10, 2012
Admission: Free and open to the public.
This year is “the second annual Flash Forward Festival Boston, an extension of The Magenta Foundation’s successful Flash Forward Annual Competition for Emerging Photographers. Acknowledged as a critically important vanguard for introducing emerging talent from Canada, the UK and the US to a global audience, the annual competition continues to seek new ways to engage those interested in photography. The addition of this festival component is designed to provide opportunities for anybody interested in emerging photography, the evolving image industry surrounding it, and the self-publishing phenomenon.”
“This new installment of the Festival had our Programming Committee [Erin Elder, Clare Jordan, Robyn McCallum, Andy Adams and MaryAnn Camilleri] exploring the topics that interest and influence our industry. The committee, made up of professionals working in the commercial, fine art and social media aspects of the photography world, found loads of common ground and know that they’ve come up with timely and informative topics for lectures, panel discussions and seminars. After all, who doesn’t want to learn how to:
- Make more money as a freelancer
- Build a social media campaign [or even start one, for that matter]
- Raise essential funds for projects or
- Learn how Art Directors find work?
Along with bringing you some top-notch exhibitions, the Flash Forward Festival is all about ‘How to Succeed in Business’, and we are thrilled to share this noteworthy line up of guests and talks with you. Special guests this year include:
- Chris Dixon from Vanity Fair, and Natalie Cusson from enRoute, will talk about their roles as Design and Art Directors of leading magazines.
- John Knight, co-founder and editor of iPad-exclusive Once Magazine, will talk about his experience creating an app that uses this dynamic platform that challenges traditional economic models of publishing and re-imagines what a photo story can be.
- Tina Ahrens from Emphas.is will inform photojournalists and photographers about the ins and outs of HOW TO FUND THEIR PROJECTS!
- Canadian photographer Tony Fouhse will talk about the twists and turns of working on a project, what happens to influence that process, and how to adapt to change along the way.”
Set within the Boston cityscape, the five-day festival is based out of the Fairmont Battery Wharf, offering an in-depth experience through organized networking events and educational programming that brings internationally respected industry professionals together to share their knowledge with the next generation of photographers. Programming includes curated indoor and outdoor exhibitions, a Harborwalk exhibition series featuring work from local galleries, along with lectures, panel discussions, and nightly events. This official program guide contains all the information that you will need to plan your itinerary.”
-Information from Flash Forward March newsletter.
To learn more about the festival, visit their website: www.flashforwardfestival.com.
March 30th, Houston: Lecture with W. M. Hunt “The Unseen I…A Life in Photography and Other Digressions”
Houston Center for Photography
Lecture with W. M. Hunt The Unseen I…A Life in Photography and Other Digressions
Friday, March 30, 2012, 6:00-7:00 pm
Free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow.
“In conjunction with his new book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, W.M. – Bill – Hunt has created a special performance piece suggested by his text for the book. This monologue with projections and video will consist of ruminations on his many years of collecting and a life in photographs. Mr. Hunt has been a collector since his early years as an actor. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious presents an idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: magical, heart stopping images of people in which the eyes are obscured, veiled, or otherwise hidden. The gaze of the subject is averted. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals.”
HCP Main Gallery
1441 West Alabama
Houston, Texas 77006 [map]
Tel: 713-529-4755