© Martin Schoeller

ACP PROGRAMS - Lecture Series
ACP gives Atlanta audiences the opportunity to hear and meet leading photographers, educators, and curators. Past speakers include Gregory Crewdson, Vincent Laforet, Tierney Gearon, Alec Soth, Sam Taylor-Wood, Larry Sultan, Bruce Davidson, Emma Dexter, Lorna Simpson, Lauren Greenfield, Deborah Willis, and Duane Michals.

© Michael Shi

EMMET GOWIN
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART - RICH AUDITORIUM
9/29/2011, 7pm Emmet Gowin studied under Harry Callahan at RISD in the late 1960's. He first gained attention with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith and family.

Beginning with a trip to Washington State soon after Mt. Saint Helens erupted, Gowin began taking aerial photographs. For the next twenty years, Gowin captured strip-mining sites, nuclear testing fields, large-scale agricultural fields, and other scars in the natural landscape.

Gowin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1977 and 1979, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1993, and the President's award for Distinguished Teaching in 1997. He retired from the visual arts department at Princeton in 2010.

Gowin's work can be found in museums and private collections worldwide as well as in six monographs on his work published over the course of 30 years.

(detail) © Martin Schoeller

MARTIN SCHOELLER
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - ATLANTA
10/06/2011, 7pm Martin Schoeller is a NY-based photographer best known for his "Close Up" series. A former assistant to Annie Leibovitz, Schoeller has since become a contract photographer for the New Yorker and has exhibited his fine art photography at some of the country's most prestigious galleries. Mr. Schoeller is at the forefront of the photography community, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and he has done advertising campaigns for Lexus, HTC, CNN, and Milk, among others.

ZOE STRAUSS
ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
10/27/2010, 7pm Zoe Strauss is a photo-based installation artist who uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. Strauss's photographic work culminates in a yearly "Under I-95" show, which takes place beneath the Interstate highway in South Philadelphia. She displays her photographs on concrete pillars under the highway and sells photocopied prints of her work for $5 each. In 2002, she received a Seedling Award in photography from the Leeway Foundation. In 2005, she received a Pew Fellowship. In 2006, her work was included in the Whitney Biennial. Zoe Strauss was named a 2007 USA Gund Fellow and granted $50,000 by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists. Zoe Strauss is the author of America, published November 2008 by AMMO Books.

ART STREIBER
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - ATLANTA
10/06/2010 Art Streiber: Editorial Photography Behind the Scenes What does it take to produce a photo shoot for the nation's top magazines? What goes on behind the scenes during pre-production, on the shoot and in post-production? How do those production details scale up if you're shooting eight, twenty-three or thirty-five subjects? And what are the key technology pieces that enable the pace of editorial work?

Art Streiber is one of the best-known, most-prolific portrait and entertainment photographers in the country. Over the past 17 years, he's been commissioned by every major American culture-oriented magazine, from Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone to Esquire, Wired, and Time, resulting in an archive of portraiture of the most intriguing newsmakers at the start of the 21st century. Art is also a regular contributor to and collaborator with all of the major Hollywood studios and networks, having shot posters and related promotional collateral for ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, MTV, Universal Studios, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures.

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JERRY UELSMANN & MAGGIE TAYLOR
ROBERT C. WILLIAMS PAPER MUSEUM
10/14/2010 Jerry Uelsmann has been called a "legend" and a "master photographer". Using labor intensive techniques to achieve his crisp, dreamlike, black and white compositions, Uelsmann is one of photography's best known darkroom pioneers. He has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and is in the permanent collections of major institutions on over 6 countries.

Maggie Taylor works solely with digital images. Her playful spirit comes through in her work and contributes to its wide acceptance. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004 and her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of numerous museums.

Jerry and Maggie are also husband and wife - two innovative photographers who create their imagery in very different ways with very different results, but equally dazzling effect!

This lecture coincides with exhibitions by Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor at the Art Institute of Atlanta's Sandy Springs and Decatur Campuses (see ACP listings 061 & 062 for details).

GRANT B. ROMER
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
10/20/2010The Past Again - Reflection of the Daguerreotype with Grant B. Romer This event is intended for an audience without special knowledge or experience with the Daguerreotype process and its pictorial legacy. It will introduce the basics of daguerreotype connoisseurship through an overview of the history of the process and illustrations of the varied special aspects of the daguerreotype, as both image and object, which distinguish it from all other forms of photography. There also will be much for the advanced connoisseur to enjoy, since Romer will be introducing recently evolved thinking about the Daguerreotype in light of the dramatic changes in imaging and information technology in the last ten years.

Romer specializes in the history, practice and preservation of the daguerreotype. Since 1975, Romer has practiced and taught this striking 19th century form of photography, gaining intimate knowledge of the medium. His uniquely extensive scholarship and experience is an invaluable resource to collectors, dealers and institutions.

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VINCENT LAFORET
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN - ATLANTA
10/07/2010 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.

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GREGORY CREWDSON
RIALTO CENTER FOR THE ARTS
10/15/2009 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
10/29/2009 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
09/14/2008 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.

(detail) © Danny Lyon

DANNY LYON
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER
10/02/2008 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.

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McCallum/Tarry
TUBE CREATIVE
10/05/2008 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).

(detail) © Danny Clinch

Danny Clinch
SCAD - ATLANTA
10/07/2008 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
09/15/2007 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
10/11/2007 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.

(detail) © Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
10/25/2007 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.