© Vincent Laforet

VINCENT LAFORET
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - ATLANTA

Lecture: 10/07/2009, 7pm

At the age of 34, Vincent Laforet's work has been published in most major publications around the world and he has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and Life Magazine.

Vincent's fine art prints are exhibited in galleries internationally including the International Center of Photography in New York City, and Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, and are part of numerous private collections. His approach to aerial photography has been singled out as one of the most unique and interpretive amongst photographers today.

© Gregory Crewdson

GREGORY CREWDSON
RIALTO CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Lecture: 10/15/2009, 7pm

Gregory Crewdson received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985, and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale in 1988. Crewdson's work has been included in many public collections, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has received numerous awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship.

© Tierney Gearon

TIERNEY GEARON
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART

Lecture: 10/29/2009, 7pm

As part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography's annual lecture series, The High Museum presents a lecture by acclaimed, native Atlantan photographer, Tierney Gearon, in The Hill Auditorium on Thursday, October 29th, at 7:00 PM. Tierney's lecture will encompass the entire span of her career as a photographer - beginning with her first portraits of her family, her early commercial work as a fashion photographer in Europe, her discovery by Charles Saatchi, subsequent shows at The Gagosian Gallery, The Mother Project, and her newest series, EXPLOSURE.

© Christopher Bucklow

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART

Lecture: 09/14/2008, 3-6pm

Christopher Bucklow is a British photographer who was born in England in 1957. Bucklow is best known for his Guest series. The process Bucklow uses creates an unusually intense quality of light, each unique image is formed using sunlight with a technique similar to pinhole photography. His work is in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Christopher will have an exhibition of new work at Jackson Fine Art in the fall of 2008.

© Danny Lyon

DANNY LYON
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER

Lecture: 10/02/2008 7pm

Danny Lyon began photographing in 1962. He practiced what has been described as "New Journalism" by immersing himself in his subject's lifestyle. In 1969 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography. Lyon's work is in many important public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. His work will be featured in the Civil Rights exhibition at The High Museum of Art in the fall of 2008.

MCCALLUM / TARRY
TUBE CREATIVE

Lecture: 10/05/2008 2pm

Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry - a collaborative artist team since 1998, McCallum and Tarry have worked nationally and exhibited globally, seeking to surface and discuss issues revolving around marginalizied members of society. Their large-scale public projects, paintings, photographic/video works, and self-portraiture challenge audiences to face issues of race and social justice. Embedded within their work is their standing as an interracial couple. McCallum and Tarry are producing ACP's Public Art Project for 2008 - a temporary, site-specific installation at the water tower in the Old Fourth Wark at Auburn & Irwin Streets (across from Studioplex).

© Danny Clinch

DANNY CLINCH
SCAD - ATLANTA

Lecture: 10/07/2008 7pm

While trends in music photography can lean towards the over-produced and under-valued, Danny Clinch's work is about the purity of the music and those who create it. Moments of passion stripped down to the basics, like a well-worn Stratocaster.   

© Sam Taylor-Wood

SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER

Lecture: 09/15/2007 7pm

As a member of the YBAs (Young British Artists), Sam Taylor-Wood has earned the reputation of being one of the leading new media artists of our time. Her work in photography and film examines collective social and psychological conditions within thought-provoking scenarios. Taylor-Wood often explores the divide between consciousness and appearance of her subjects and then further presents her subjects in a manner that displays the discord between the internal and external identity.

© Alec Soth

ALEC SOTH
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART

Lecture: 10/11/2007 7pm

Minnesota native Alec Soth has earned critical acclaim for his series "Sleeping by the Mississippi." In this body of work, Soth captures an object's or subject's individual and unique personality while discerningly revealing the underlying thread that provides a connection between otherwise outwardly different situations. Using a wooden 8x10 camera, Soth captures his subjects in a manner that allows viewers to explore and create his or her own narrative dialogue within the imagery's composition.

© Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS
SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

Lecture: 10/25/2007 7pm

One of the most significant artists from post-Revolutionary Cuba, Campos-Pons' work explores the role of history and memory in shaping identity. Her work created since leaving Cuba for North America in 1990 includes large-format Polaroid photographs and new media installations. Campos-Pons reconstructs both representations of individual and shared memories to grasp her imagined displacement from Africa, her actual exile from Cuba, and her experience as a black Cuban woman living in North America. Her personal experiences are used to exceed biography in order to articulate about the account of culture and history at large.