“Past Times: Life, Loss and Love in Photography. A Conversation with David Deitcher, Jarrett Earnest, and Shelley Rice.” Moderated by Ulrich Baer

The Center for the Humanities is hosting an event on March 5 about two recent photo books written by writers/critics in conversation with Shelley Rice.

Join critics and writers David Deitcher and Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about their recent books, Alan B. Stone: Senses of Place; l’esprit des lieux and Valid Until Sunset, and the role that photography plays in creating and undoing our experiences of loss, life, and lust. Moderated by Professor Shelley Rice, NYU Art History and Tisch Photography and Imaging. Co-sponsored by The Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU.

Shelley Rice has been working with the Chicago based Richard Gray Gallery – GRAY – on their exhibition at Frieze Masters London of the early photographs of Rashid Johnson. She has written the text that accompanies the exhibition online, and will present a short discussion of the work during a Zoom webinar on October 9 at 12 pm EST.

Zoom webinar on Rashid Johnson, GRAY gallery at Frieze Masters London:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Oct 9, 2020 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkceqhqDIsG9JyLqBCXgh5KqVmeaTDo0d6

After registering, guests will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Drew Sawyer Lecture

JR’s 2017 installation at the border between Mexico and the USA, which is documented in the show in Brooklyn.

 

Drew Sawyer, the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, will be coming to give a lecture in Social History of Photography class on Thursday, October 24, at 11:00 am. in Room 300 Silver Center. He will be speaking about the two exhibitions on which he worked that are now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, JR: Chronicles and Garry Winogrand: Color.

Shelley Rice to Lecture at Conference

https://steichencollections-cna.lu/eng/evenements/31_conference-steichen-stieglitz-money-art-and-a-life-in-photography

This lecture will describe the many facets of Edward Steichen – artist, commercial photographer, modern art impresario, curator, animator etc. – in order to place him (and them) within the context of early 20^th century New York. The rise of mass media, the expansion of modern art practices and institutional infrastructures, the globalization of capitalism and visual culture: Steichen embraced all of these transformative social changes, and insisted on contributing to their dynamic development. Long obscured by Stieglitz’s obsession with art photography, Steichen’s multi-faceted talents and protean oeuvre can finally be seen as the trailblazing achievements that they are. In today’s postmodern social landscape, this photographer serves as a role model, and his career provides a road map for the 21^st century artist intent on flourishing within our contemporary image-world.

Isolde Brielmaier Lecture

Reception following!

Isolde Brielmaier Lecture

Reception following!

Conversation: Curating Photography Exhibitions, Moderated by Shelley Rice, Thursday, September 20, 7:00 pm Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

Moderated by Shelley Rice, NYU, with speakers Isolde Brielmaier, NYU, Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Enrica Viganò, Admira, Milan, curator of NeoRealismo, this conversation will explore the challenges and pleasures of curating photography exhibitions, including, but not limited to, the research process.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Departments of Art History and Photography and Imaging, and Grey Art Gallery.

Free of charge, capacity limited, and subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings.

Offered in conjunction with NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960, exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, September 6–December 8, 2018.

For information on the exhibition, please visit greyartgallery.nyu.edu

Professor Shelley Rice in “Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable.”

Come and see Professor Shelley Rice as a Talking Head in the bio pic “Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable.” Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, the film will be shown at Film Forum from September 19 to October 2, 2018.

 

“One of the rare art-world bio-docs that delivers the sensation of seeing a story unfold dramatically onscreen,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable is the first documentary on the artist’s life and work. The film uses iconic and newly discovered photographs, home movies, and long-lost audio tapes to reveal an intimate portrait of a man who both personified his era and transformed it.  Winner of a Special Jury Prize for “Best Feminist Reconsideration of a Male Artist” at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival.

Masterclass with Susan Meiselas moderated by Shelley Rice

14 April 2018

15h00 to 18h00

Jeu de Paume Museum, Place de la Concorde, Paris

Within the framework of her retrospective, Jeu de Paume is pleased to provide the audience with a special moment of exchange with photographer Susan Meiselas and art historian and journalist Shelley Rice.

During this Masterclass, Susan Meiselas will answer the questions and comments that will be suggested by the participants. To enable her to prepare these exchanges in the best conditions, the participants are invited to send us their questions or proposals before April 2nd, 2018 to the following address: masterclassmeiselas@jeudepaume.org

Shelley Rice: “There is, first and foremost, something I would very much like to ask Susan, and it is a big question. I want to ask her what she has learned from her world travels, her close encounters, her active, varied and engaged career?

There is no way to put Meiselas’ achievements in a box, since she has photographed directly and archived others’ photographs; moved forward in history on the wave of revolutions and backwards in chronicling destruction, death and loss. She has told stories of power and agency, and collected remnants of disenfranchisement and oppression; she has faced violence on levels ranging from war to sexual abuse. She has interviewed people in rural communities and cities on several continents, studied working conditions and family structures. She has perused domestic environments and family albums of those at home and in diaspora. In other words: Susan Meiselas’ life has been an extraordinary journey into the human condition in its many manifestations —a life of privileged access to an extraordinary richness of experience. She is always in the midst of collecting stories about the lives of others, and passing these on to an increasingly global audience.

In my mind, what distinguishes Meiselas is the steadiness of her gaze into the lives of others, her non-judgmental acceptance of peoples’ existences. It is as if she understands that all of us are dealt a hand of cards when we are born, for better or worse, and she is endlessly intrigued by how we choose to play it. Never an ideologue or a political activist in the strident sense, Susan is committed to the sanctity of individual experience, the worthiness of every point of view. I would love to ask her what she herself has learned from the archive she has created and collected during her lifetime —an archive of tales whose diversity makes manifest a vastly expanded picture of life on earth. I think it’s fair to say that Susan Meiselas has helped us to recognize the experiences of those with whom we share this planet. I would love to hear her thoughts on this assessment.”

Shelley Rice, March 2018

Masterclass with Susan Meiselas and Shelley Rice, on Saturday April 14th, 2018, 3-6PM at Jeu de Paume’s auditorium.
Admission: 3 euros or free on presentation of the exhibition ticket (valid only on the day of purchase), within the limit of available seats

Information: infoauditorium@jeudepaume.org

 

MoMA Panel Moderated by Shelley Rice