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Panelists
and Moderators (subject to change):
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W.M.
Hunt, Collector, Curator, and Consultant, Director
of Photography, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
W.M. Hunt is a new York-based collector, curator and consultant;
a champion of photography. He is the Director of Photography
at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea. His “Collection Dancing
Bear” consists of enigmatic images of people whose eyes
cannot be seen. The collection has been profiled in The
New York Times and on PBS. His “The Walls of the
Dancing Bear Cave” is an upbeat, irreverent take on collecting
which he has presented to museum groups in New York, Houston,
Los Angeles and many other places around the country. Hunt began
his career as a dealer/curator when he curated “delirium” for Ricco/Maresca later adapted into an issue of Aperture.
He also serves on the Board of Directors for AIPAD (Association
of International Photography Art Dealers), and adjunct professor
at the School of Visual Arts, and was the former chairman of
Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS and is the current Chairman of the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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John Ibson, Professor of American Studies, California
State University, Fullerton
John Ibson received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is
Professor of American Studies at California State University,
Fullerton where he has been Department Chair and Graduate Program
Adviser. His areas of specialization include gender and sexuality
in modern America and American vernacular photography. His Picturing
Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography was published by Smithsonian Books in 2002. He is currently
working on a book examining men’s relationships in Cold
War America.
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Daile Kaplan, Collector, Curator, and V.P., Director
of Photographs, Swann Auction Galleries, New York
Daile Kaplan is Vice-President and Director of Photographs
at Swann Galleries, Inc., New York City’s oldest specialty
auction house. An independent curator and auctioneer, she
was named “one of the 100 most important people in photography”
by American Photo magazine. Ms. Kaplan has been photographs
expert on the nationally acclaimed television program Antiques
Roadshow since 1998. She is highlighted in Carol Prissan’s
Antiques Roadshow Collectibles (New York: Workman, 2003)
and in Dana Miccucci’s Best Bids, and An
Insider’s Guide to Collecting (New York: Penguin
Putnam, 2002). Ms. Kaplan is the author of four books, including
the recently published Pop Photographica, Photography’s
Objects in everyday Life 1842-1969,” published
by the Art Gallery of Ontario in conjunction with the exhibition
of the same title. She developed a website, www.popphotographica.com,
which explores 19th and 20th century photographic folk art
objects and how photography has been assimilated into popular
culture. Examples from Kaplan’s personal collection
of pop photographica—a term she coined—appear
in Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco’s richly illustrated
book American Vernacular (New York: Abrams, 2003).
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Rodger Kingston, Photographer, Collector, Photographic
Historian, Walker Evans Bibliographer, Boston
Rodger Kingston has collected images by unknown photographers
for over thirty years, inadvertently, building a case for a new vernacular
history of photography. An established photographer himself,
Kingston has embraced collecting with the same passion that
informs his own work: the urge to elevate a quotidian or populist
point of view. An expert on Walker Evans, Kingston authored
the book, Walker Evans In Print: An Illustrated Bibliography.
He has exhibited his photographic work extensively throughout
the United States, including the exhibition, Along the Right
of Way: Landscapes from a Train, at
the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, in 2002. His 1998 exhibition,
Fifty Years on the Mangrove Coast: Photographs by Walker
Evans and Rodger Kingston, recently finished a two-year
museum tour; his work is in numerous collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of American Art, and the Fogg Art Museum. Kingston is currently on the Board of Directors
of the Photographic Resource Center.
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Stacey McCarroll, Director & Curator, Boston
University Art Gallery Director
& Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery, Stacey
McCarroll is the curator and author of the recent exhibition
and catalogue, California Dreamin’: Camera Clubs
and the Pictorial Photography Tradition (2004). She also
curated, Selections from the Polaroid Collections,
a series of large-scale exhibitions installed at Polaroid
Corporation sites around Boston, as well as the exhibition
Imaginary Male, at the William Marten Gallery in
Rochester, New York. A recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation/American
Council of Learned Societies Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
in American Art, she is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation
titled, Intimate Images. The Public and The Private in
Twentieth-Century American Photography, at Boston University.
McCarroll has taught the history of photography in California
and Massachusetts since 1994.
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