Lecture

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When

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 19, 2016

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Image Credit: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996; from Alex Webb: La Calle (Aperture/Televisa Foundation, 2016) © Alex Webb/Magnum Photos, Courtesy Etherton Gallery

This joint public slide talk with Etherton Gallery will feature a selection of photographs from the creative couple's monographs, including Alex's new book of 30 years of work from Mexico, La Calle and Rebecca's My Dakota, an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly, as well as some of their collaborative books, including Violet Isle. They will also show some new works-in-progress. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session as well as an opportunity to purchase books by the artists.

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A book signing with the artists will also be available at Etherton Gallery from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

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Still Life, Marseille
Still Life, Marseille ,  ​ ​ © 1992 toned gelatin silver print,  ©Joel-Peter Witkin, courtesy Etherton Gallery
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When

5:30 p.m. Sept. 9, 2016

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

You are invited to join us at the Center on Friday, September 9 at 5:30 PM for a special lecture by world-renowned photographer Joel-Peter Witkin.

**Free parking available after 5pm in Lot 3039 behind CCP**

About the Photographer:

Joel-Peter Witkin has famously said of his work, “I wanted my images to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.” His grotesque, hauntingly beautiful photographs engage with history and spirituality, embodiment and mortality. Witkin creates elaborate tableaux populated with little people, amputees, hermaphrodites, the unusually-abled and the dead—a cast of characters whose sheer otherness is seductive. He draws his imagery from a wealth of literary, art historical, and mythological sources, meticulously staging scenes that reference academic painting, Surrealism, and the nineteenth-century proto-Pictorialist photographers Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Once he has photographed a scene, Witkin often spends weeks in the darkroom manipulating and printing the image by hand. At a moment in visual culture when even journalistic photographs are Photoshopped, Joel-Peter Witkin’s obsessively-realized fabrications offer their own peculiar truth.

 

Witkin’s work is included in public collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, The National Gallery, Washington, DC; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England; the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. He is the recipient of the Commandeur d’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France.

 

This lecture is presented jointly with Etherton Gallery, in conjunction with their upcoming exhibition Shadowlands, which features the work of Alice Leora Briggs, Roger Ballen, and Joel-Peter Witkin. Shadowlands opens Saturday, September 10, with a reception from 7-10 PM.

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When

5:30 p.m. June 7, 2016

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Lecture: David Shneer "Valuing Grief"

Blockbuster photography shows like War/Photography, about the history of photography’s role in documenting war, and Faking It, which looks at photographic manipulation “before photoshop,” have riveted audiences by the thousands.  One artist appears in both, a Soviet photographer named Dmitrii Baltermants.  In this presentation, Dr. Shneer tells the story of Baltermants’s most famous photograph, titled Grief, from its wartime origins on a Nazi killing field in southern Russia to its star-studded feature role in major art exhibitions in the 21st century.  He focuses on the question of value and how what was valued during the war in an image of fascist atrocities was not the same value that the image had in the 21st century. Dr. Shneer explores the history of its circulation, exhibition, and collection as he shows how Cold War politics, the emergence of institutionalized Holocaust memory, and the rise of the art market all co-existence simultaneously, and uncomfortably, in Grief.

About the Lecturer:

David Shneer is Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies and 2015-2016 College Scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Dr. Shneer is also a 2016 recipient of the Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for Jewish Studies and is a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute at New York University. He blogs at the Radical Jewish Traveler. Listen to his interview for the Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book Center.  More information is available at: http://www.davidshneer.com/

 

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Untitled
Untitled,  2012, © © Lucas Blalock,  Image courtesy of the artist and Ramiken Crucible, New York
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When

5:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Presented as part of the Etherton Gallery Lecture Series. Artist websites: Lucas Blalock | John Lehr

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Chicago, Nude
Chicago, Nude,  2009, © © Ralph Gibson,  Image courtesy Etherton Gallery
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When

5:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 2015 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

2015 Upcoming Public Programs

Lucas Blalock and John Lehr in Conversation with Curator Joshua Chuang

Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 5:30 pm

Presented as part of the Etherton Gallery Lecture Series. Artist websites: Lucas Blalock | John Lehr

Ralph Gibson (artist talk)

Friday, September 18, 2015 - 5:30 pm (details)

Louie Palu: Image Control in the Age of Terror

Thursday, October 6, 2015 - 5:30 pm (details)

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Tinda
Tinda,  1975, © © Ralph Gibson,  Image courtesy Etherton Gallery
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When

5:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Presented by the Etherton Gallery Distinguished Lecture Series, please join celebrated photographer Ralph Gibson (born 1939, Los Angeles, CA) as he speaks about his career from 1960 to today, as well as his new book. Free and open to the public.

Ralph Gibson has made a prolific career photographing since gaining prominence in the 1960s, winning numerous honors, grants, and fellowships, and exhibiting internationally. Gibson was recently appointed Chair of the Department of Contemporary Photography at the New York Film Academy. His most recent book, Political Abstraction (2015, Lustrum Press, distributed by the University of Texas Press), is a response to the search for visual identity in a digital age, featuring a series of color and black-and-white photographic diptychs portraying "simultaneous visual motions dealing with the migration of color and shape across seemingly simple imagery." Gibson will also be presenting a TEDx talk in Santa Monica on September 26, 2015: "Finding a Visual Identity in the Digital Age."

An upcoming CCP exhibition of Political Abstraction is being printed in collaboration with Tucson's Photographic Works, Inc. Political Abstraction is on view September 10 - October 31, 2015 at Mary Boone Gallery. Gibson's work can also be seen at Etherton Gallery in Light Motifs: Photographs by Ralph Gibson & Andy Summers, on view September 15 - November 7, 2015.

 

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Jul 12, 2008 - An Afghan soldier eats grapes during a patrol in Pashmul in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
Jul 12, 2008 - An Afghan soldier eats grapes during a patrol in Pashmul in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan,  2008, © © Louie Palu,  Courtesy of the artist
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When

5:30 p.m. Oct. 6, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu examines the social-political issues involving war and human rights in his work. Palu's series of conceptual newspapers on the Mexican Drug War and the detention center in Guantanamo Bay look into the creation, use, control and censorship of photographs in the news. Additionally, he explores government and media message-shaping, how the public consumes photographs, and how photojournalism has shaped public perception in the post-9/11 age of terror. Palu's lecture will focus on the contemporary news landscape and how his work is situated within it, amid the conflict and violence. He will also discuss his new documentary film, Kandahar Journals, the thesis of which addresses the impossibility of photographs to convey the reality of war.

About the artist

Louie Palu is an award winning documentary photographer whose work has appeared in festivals, publications + exhibitions internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant and is a 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellow with the New America Foundation. He is well known for his work which examines social political issues such as human rights, conflict and poverty. See more of his work here: www.louiepalu.com

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NGC 3344
NGC 3344,  ​ ​ © © Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona, 
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When

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 23, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Adam Block is a leading astrophotographer and the founder of the UA Science Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter stargazing programs; his work appears frequently on NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day Website” and he writes a column on astrophotography for Astronomy magazine. During this public lecture he will speak about how modern images of the cosmos are made, how they influence the field of photography, and just what makes them so compelling.

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(left): Meridian Planum, Mars, scale about 50m (NASA Opportunity Rover); (right): Rock, dry river bed, Sunset Crater NP, AZ, scale about 200m (Stephen Strom)
(left): Meridian Planum, Mars, scale about 50m (NASA Opportunity Rover); (right): Rock, dry river bed, Sunset Crater NP, AZ, scale about 200m (Stephen Strom) ,  ​ ​ © © Stephen Strom,  Image courtesy Stephen Strom
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When

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. March 26, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Gallery

On Thursday, March 26th in the CCP galleries Stephen Strom, Arizona-based photographer and former Associate Director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, will host a tour of Astronomical: Photographs of Our Solar System and Beyond. Strom, one of the exhibition's co-organizers, will discuss the photographs on view from his unique perspective as an artist and astronomer. Works from his series "Celestial Siblings," which compares images of Earth with those taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are featured in Astronomical.

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Moon, June 27, 1895; Courtesy of the University of California Observatories, Lick Observatory, printing-out paper print
Moon, June 27, 1895; Courtesy of the University of California Observatories, Lick Observatory, printing-out paper print,  1996, © © Linda Connor,  Collection Center for Creative Photography, 2012.2.1
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When

5:30 p.m. Feb. 26, 2015

Where

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

Xavier Debeerst is a noted specialist in the field of historical astrophotography. Join us for this keynote lecture followed by a public opening reception for Astronomical: Photographs of Our Solar System and Beyond from 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Both events are free and open to the public.

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