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Day Two of Conference
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004


Location:
CGS, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Avenue


9:30 am Coffee and Continental Breakfast
Lobby, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue
10:00 am Session III: Vernacular Collectors & Collections
Moderator: Michelle Lamuniere, Charles C. Cunningham, Sr. Assistant Curator of Photography, Department of Prints and Photographs, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Merry Foresta, Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Senior Curator of Photography, Smithsonian Institution
Many Rooms in the House of Photography: Looking at the Smithsonian Collections

Daile Kaplan, Collector, Curator, and V.P., Director of Photographs, Swann Auction Galleries, New York
Pop Photographica and the Vernacular Idiom

W.M. Hunt / Dancing Bear, Collector, Curator, and Consultant, Director of Photography, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York Delight and Disorder - Thoughts on Collecting Vernacular Photography
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm

Session IV: Vernacular Pictures and Practices
Moderator: Melissa Renn, PhD student and Warren G. Adelson Curatorial Fellow in American Art, Art History Department, Boston University

Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, Yale University
Photographs Nearly Anonymous: Vernacular Transformed in the work of Walker Evans and Wright Morris

Jonathan C. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
Reflections, Tributes, Acknowledgments: The African American Funeral Program and Vernacular Photographic Practice

John Ibson, Professor of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Cold War, Cold Photographs: Male Relationships in the Everyday Photos of 1950s America

3:00 pm Refreshment
3:15 pm Round Table Discussion/ Closing Remarks
Moderator: Stacy McCarroll
4:30-6:30

Reception for the exhibition, Contemporary Vernacular, at the Photographic Resource Center
PRC, 832 Commonwealth Avenue

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