Events

Edited by Susanne Lange.

Working from Memory is a collection of stories by the renowned photographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry. Based on conversations with author and critic Susanne Lange, these stories elaborate the artist's memories of the Deep South, in whose rich literary tradition they are steeped. In a lyrical but lucid prose, they set personal experience against the backdrop of important political and cultural moments in the southern states, endowing that landscape with a vividness that will be familiar to fans of the artist's photography. Christenberry's own photographs accompany these tales.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1936, William Christenberry grew up in the Deep South, where old road signs, deteriorating buildings and dirt roads shaped his boyhood memories. During his early career, Christenberry was primarily a painter, but he soon began to incorporate the use of a Brownie camera into his practice. In 1961 he moved to New York and met Walker Evans, the celebrated photographer of the Farm Security Administration, who had documented the devastating effect of the Great Depression in the South. Evans' photographs--many from Christenberry's home area--particularly influenced Christenberry's work as an artist. In 1968 he moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the faculty of the Corcoran School of Art and Design, where he continues to work as a professor of drawing and painting. Today, Christenberry's international stature continues to grow as his work is featured in many museums throughout the United States and abroad.

Deadly Intent Crime & Punishment

Photographs from The Burns Archive

Panel discussion at PhotoPlus NY 

Magnum photographers talk about their work as photojournalists.

"War in Lebannon"

May 1 - June 17, 2007

Opening talk with Scott Anderson.

"In the Shadow of Power: Poverty in Washing D.C."

March 12- May 8, 2007

"The Price of Oil"

Opening talk with Sebastian Junger

Cycle of Violence

November 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007

Panel discussion about approaching possible work contacts.

Panel discussion on the effects of digital marketing on the advertising industry 

The Outcasts of Slovakia

June 27 - August 22, 2006

Afganistan Embedded

April 17 - June 25, 2006

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Transitions: Strategies for the Young Working Photographer

On Wednesday, PDN is hosting a free seminar for emerging photographers at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Speakers include PDN's 30 honorees Fernando Souto, Lucas Foglia and Toni Greaves. 

Thursday, May 28th, 6-8p.m.

Please join Princeton Architectual Press, Griffin Editions, and the Art Department and The Divisions of the Sciences at Marymount Manhattan College in celebrating the publication of 

Sites of Impact

Meteorite Craters Around the World 

by Stan Gaz

Stan Gaz will discuss his photographs, along with special guests Dr.Denton S. Ebel, a curator at the Museum of Natural History who is a geologist specializing in meteorites and Brian Paul Clamp, director of ClampArt.  

Stan Gaz's Sites of Impact photographs will be on display at ClampArt until June 6th.

The pen is mightier than the sword but in our increasingly visual culture maybe the image has become the automatic weapon, with unprecedented power for communication and with very real consequences. We swim in a visual culture and yet like fish in water we hardly think about significance of the medium that envelops us: information, news, advertising, pop culture, celebrity portraits and not to overlook our family albums now online and public at Flickr, Facebook and elsewhere. The power of the photograph lies in its obvious immediacy and its assumed reality - but how much should we trust what we see in the digital age? As the 21st Century gets under way the power to make and distribute imagery has never been greater and we need to learn new skills to distinguish fact from metaphor, public from private, art from vernacular, truth from lies... Paragraph.

Panelists:

Stephen MayesDirector, VII Photo, representing thirty globally recognized photojournalists

Kira PollackDirector of Photography, Time Magazine; Fmr. Senior Photo Editor, NY Times Sunday Magazine 

Theresa RaffettoTheresa Raffetto Photography, Commercial Photographer; President, Advertising Photographers of America

Fred RitchinProfessor of Photography and Imaging at NYU; Author of "After Photography" (2009) "A fascinating look at the perils and possibilities of photography in the digital age"

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Painter, filmmaker, and writer Hugues de Montalembert, who was blinded during an attack in New York City in 1978, presents a screening of the award-winning documentary Black Sun. He will also introduce his new memoir, Invisible, published by ATRIA Books.

As documented in Black Sun, de Montalembert faced crushing despair in the year after losing his sight; but then he did the unthinkable by learning to “see” without the use of his eyes.

The meditation on his loss is explored in his latest book, Invisible. In this memoir, the author reflects on the thirty years since he lost his sight. Without a trace of self-pity, he writes about how the loss of this vital sense invigorated him, leading him to take solo trips around the world and giving him a new appreciation of life.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session, reception, and book signing with the author.

Black Sun
Directed by Gary Tarns, 2005. Color. 75 min.
In English

RSVP to mhulme@fiaf.org

tickets: $25 ($20 for FIAF members)

In honor of its centennial, the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation in France initiated a study of the human quest for beauty in all cultures and civilizations throughout the ages. The result is100,000 Years of Beauty. This fascinating book is an original approach to research about the exploration of beauty from the various points of view of international experts including sociologists, philosophers, historians, and artists. It includes contributions from 300 authors of 35 nationalities and working in 20 different disciplines.

To celebrate this renowned research project, L’Oréal is hosting an evening with Béatrice Dautresme, Managing Director of the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation, and Elisabeth Azoulay, Editorial Director of 100,000 Years of Beauty, in addition to other experts from the book who will discuss and identify the pursuit of beauty in all civilizations, from prehistoric time to today, and provide a special glimpse of the future.

A cocktail reception will follow the discussion.

Ticket Prices 
FIAF Members $20 
Non-Members $25

Buy Tickets
Online: Ticketmaster.com

The tension and surprise emanating from certain works of the great surrealist photographers Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Man Ray, and Lee Miller equals the greatest of surrealist texts, by Breton, Desnos, and Eluard. Rarely has the force of black and white struck with such peculiarity. And - we are thinking twilight -- the mystery lasts.

Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, Getty, and Rockefeller fellowships, is the past president of the Modern Language Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism, the Academy of Literary Studies, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She is the author of numerous volumes on art and literature, including The Eye in the Text; Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern; The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Visual and Verbal Texts: Stressed Readings The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter; Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar; Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush; To the Boathouse: A Memoir; Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dalí, and the editor ofSurrealist Painters and Poets; Surrealism and Surrealist Love Poems.

Register online or call 212.857.0001.

Internationally renowned documentary photographer Stefano de Luigi discusses his working methodology, his collaborations with NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières, and his latest book, Blindness (Trolley Books, 2010). Since the beginning of his career as a photojournalist two decades ago, de Luigi's work has evolved into a spectrum of selfinitiated projects, revealing his acute powers of observation, compassionate interest in his subjects, and unique visual expression. He is represented by the VII agency.

Register online or call 212.857.0001.

This highly acclaimed exhibition, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum through April 25, examines a unique and pivotal moment in American photographic history. The first major examination of street photography of the 1940s and 1950s in nearly 20 years includes work by Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Ted Croner, Saul Leiter, and William Klein and uncovers a crucial time in American art, when global media was in its adolescence and photography was just beginning to achieve recognition in the contemporary art world. A highlight will be the viewing of Time Capsule, a recently discovered short film by Louis Faurer.

Moderated by Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum.

Guest Speakers:
Vince Aletti, critic and curator
Deborah Bell, Deborah Bell Gallery
Howard Greenberg, Howard Greenberg Gallery
Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of Photography

Register online or call 212.857.0001 for more information.