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2012 master lecture series Vicki Goldberg: American Women Photographers
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. "One of photography's most revered and beloved critics, Goldberg examines both the history of photography and our current state of affairs with curiosity, wit, and cutting insight." - Photo Eye Vicki Goldberg has published six books and written introductions to more than twenty monographs and catalogues as well as writing about photography for the New York Times for thirteen years. Her books, The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives and Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography, were each named one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association; the anthology she edited, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present, was cited in The Wall Street Journal in 2006 as one of the five best of all books on photography. She has received numerous awards for writing, including the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, the Royal Society's Dudley Johnston Award, and the Long Chen Cup (China). She lectures internationally and writes on photography for various magazines. Why Global Health Matters Reception immediately following panel in the PRC Gallery, 832 Commonwealth Avenue.
The PRC’s Global Health in Focus project focuses on three of the greatest health challenges the world community faces today: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and access to clean water. This project aims to educate our New England community about these critical global health issues, utilizing documentary photography to offer direct insight into the individuals and communities affected. The panel discussion, along with the exhibition, will lead to a greater understanding of the challenges and possible solutions to global health problems, particularly the work of Boston-based institutions. The overarching goal of “Why Global Health Matters” is to bridge the arts, journalism, and medical communities by analyzing the ongoing universal concerns communicated in the exhibition and publication. By organizing and presenting this project, the PRC serves as a resource not only for photographers but for professionals in the healthcare, human rights, and public policy fields, as well as demonstrating the power of the photographic image. Complimentary copies of the exhibition catalog publication will be given to all attendees at the panel discussion and reception! Jennifer Beard, PhD, MA, MPH Dominic Chavez, featured photographer Since 1991, Chavez has covered a wide range of domestic and international issues. He has reported from the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan to the war-torn streets of Angola. He has recorded the effects of the ongoing drug war in Colombia, and documented many health issues facing the nations of Africa. Presently, he is focusing on global health issues. Chavez has produced six books: Well Being with Johns Hopkins University, From the Ground Up with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Airborne with the World Health Organization, A Line Drawn in the Sand with Harvard University, Passion Beyond Normal with CGIAR, and AIDS in Nigeria with Harvard University. Chavez received a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowship in 2007–2008 and has been recognized with many awards. In 2004, he won First Place International in Pictures of the Year International for his work during the Iraq War. Also in 2004, Dominic received the Media Excellence Award by the Global Health Council for his work on the AIDS crisis in Africa. In 2000, he was awarded Photographer of the Year from the Boston Press Photographers Association for his work in Afghanistan, Angola, and Colombia. Stefanie Friedhoff (Moderator) Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH David Rochkind, featured photographer Rochkind graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Sociology and speaks fluent Spanish. Peter Vanderwarker: Applied Creativity
“Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple – that’s creativity.” - Charles Mingus Peter Vanderwarker believes that creativity in photography is a learned skill. His professional work relies on “applied creativity” while his personal work relies on a much more difficult form of “personal creativity.” He is his own worst critic, and he recognizes the struggle we all face when we go to make original work. During his lecture, he will discuss several different projects, his personal process, what it’s like to shoot for a client, and steps to enhance your own projects. Peter Vanderwarker spends his professional time making powerful photographs for architects, magazine editors, and corporations. He also does personal work and is represented by Gallery NAGA (Boston, MA). His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA) and the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA). NOTE: For people attending Vanderwarker’s related workshop, attendance at this lecture is required. Click here to read more about his workshop >> Strauch-Mosse Visting Artist Panel Discussion Co-sponsored by The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, the Consulate General of France in Boston in collaboration with and Magnum Photos and the Photographic Resource Center
The three photographers are internationally recognized documentary photographers associated with the renowned photo agency Magnum. They will engage in a dialogue about freedom of the press and the current state of contemporary journalism. This panel discussion is being held in conjunction with the 101 Photographs exhibition at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley. Magnum photographers have donated images for this exhibition in support of the organization Reporters Sans Frontieres and in recognition of the important work of independent journalists and photojournalists who risk safety, comfort, and their lives to bring the news about events around the world. The exhibition includes work by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, and many other renowned photographers. Antoine D'Agata recently photographed the political changes in Libya. His work consists of a mix of art market and photojournalism with a deeply personal approach. His latest works were done for the High Commissioner for Refugees, The United Nations. He has published three books of his work and won the prestigious Niepce Prize for young photographers. He has also created two films: Le Ventre du Monde and Aka Ana. Thomas Dworzak covered many crisis in the world: Chechnya, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Kosovo. He also photographed events in Israel, the war in Macedonia, and the refugee crisis in Pakistan. After 9/11, Dworzak spent several months in Afghanistan. Since then he has photographed in Iraq, Iran and Haiti, and covered the revolutions in the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Susan Meiselas is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. She has also covered crisis in Kurdistan and Chile, among others. She has co-directed two films: Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1986) and "Pictures from a Revolution" (1991). Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She has received honorary recognition from: the Robert Capa Gold Medal by the Overseas Press Club for her work in Nicaragua (1979), the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for her coverage of Latin America (1994), and, most recently, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005). In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Nathaniel Raymond: War Photography for the 21st Century
Nathaniel Raymond will discuss the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) and its role in monitoring human rights abuses in Sudan by utilizing satellite imaging. Raymond will focus on SSP’s methodology and analyze some of its images, which can often be quite beautiful despite featuring horrific atrocities. Additionally, his talk will outline the relationship between human rights advocacy and photography, and he will provide useful applications from SSP for ground photography. George Clooney initiated the SSP while on an October 2010 trip to Southern Sudan with Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast. SSP combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with Google's Map Maker technology to deter the resumption of war between North and South Sudan. The project provides an early warning system to deter full-scale civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan and to promote greater accountability for mass atrocities by focusing world attention and generating rapid responses on human rights and human security concerns. The Satellite Sentinel Project marks the first sustained, public effort to systematically monitor and report on potential hotspots and threats to security along a border in near real-time (within 24-36 hours), with the aim of heading off humanitarian disaster and human rights crimes before they occur. SSP also aims to detect and deter mass atrocities. To date, SSP has discovered evidence of eight mass graves in Sudan's oil-producing border state of South Kordofan. Nathaniel A. Raymond is the Director of Operations for Satellite Sentinel Project. He has over a decade of experience as a human rights investigator specializing in civilian protection during complex humanitarian disasters, the treatment of prisoners in national security settings, and crimes of war. Based at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, he leads the SSP’s day-to-day collection and analysis of satellite imagery and other information to produce SSP’s reports on the current human security situation in Sudan. Raymond was a 2010 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Security and Human Rights Reform Fellow. From 2002 through 2006, Raymond served in a variety of capacities with Oxfam America, namely as a communications advisor for humanitarian response in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. He is a 1999 graduate of Drew University with honors in Religious studies and a minor in Asian studies. Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth
Shelby Lee Adams was born in 1950 in Hazard, Kentucky. Since 1974, he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, and his photographs are included in more than sixty museum and private collections. Before Salt & Truth in 2011, Adams released three books: Appalachian Portraits with an introduction by Lee Smith in 1993, Appalachian Legacy with text by the author in 1998, and Appalachian Lives with text by Vickie Goldberg in 2003; the University Press of Mississippi published all three books. Adams has received numerous awards throughout his career, most notably a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Survey Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Photography Fellowship in 2010. In addition, the Polaroid Corporation has continuously collected and published his work internationally. www.shelby-lee-adams.blogspot.com/ “My work has strictly followed word of mouth and personal introductions for all these years. However, it is becoming more difficult to find the authentic salt-of-the-earth people, who are now being overrun by a more sugar-coated society. The families who occupied this land for more than a couple hundred years are now interspersed with a new breed of Appalachian and land developers driving Hummers and Escalades, owning oddly shaped swimming pools and mansions built into the mountaintops after the coal is removed and the mountains reclaimed. To go into the woods nowadays can be dangerous and surprising. One has to be watchful not to stumble upon a booby-trapped marijuana field or abandoned meth houses, or be surprised by a bear or a coyote, or even the striking appearance of a wandering, imported elk herd. It is a more varied and diluted world now. Salt preserves wholesomeness and prevents decay, but the people from the earlier, harder-formed age who bear that special look are now in decline.”
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