Lectures in Photography - Columbia College Chicago

Mimi Plumb was our Lectures in Photography guest on December 3, 2020. Since the 1970s, Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots to the United Farm Workers movement. Her first book, Landfall, published by TBW Books in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2019 and the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2019. You can view her Zoom presentation at the link below.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.

https://youtu.be/CaPfX9Ot-eU

Lecture in Photography: Mimi Plumb Since the 1970s, Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots to the United Farm Workers movement. Her first book, Landfall, published by TBW ...

Our lectures are archived online at the website of the Museum of ontemporary Photography, and at YouTube and Vimeo. We thought you’d like to take a look at some of them here on the Lectures page. Enjoy.

MoMA photography curator Sarah Meister was our guest on May 13, 2020. Sarah Meister is a curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Meister has organized a variety of exhibitions, including Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020), Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (2017), From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola (2015), and Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light (2013).

https://youtu.be/jhgsiXRNMCk

Lecture in Photography: Sarah Meister Sarah Meister is a curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Meister has organized a variety of exhibitions, i...

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa presented a provocative Lecture last night. He spent time with the Photography grads earlier in the day, in crits and conversation.

Photographer and writer Teju Cole delivers a Lecture in Photography this Thursday, September 26 @ 6 PM at CCC’s Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor. Lecture is FREE to the Columbia community and the general public.

http://www.mocp.org/events/event?id=30600147846766

Our most recent Lectures guest last night was Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. She gave a provocative and engaging lecture and then spent today joining the Photography Department in the end of semester MFA Photo thesis reviews.

An interview with Lalla Essaydi, our next Lecture guest on February 27th.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artasiapacific-writing-women-interview-with-lalla-essaydi

Lalla Essaydi is the next Lectures in Photography guest on February 27th. Here is an introduction to the artist's work at the link.

https://www.artsy.net/artist/lalla-essaydi

Barbara Kasten's lecture drew a packed house this evening.

Interview Magazine featured Barbara Kasten's work and conducted an interview with her in 2015 on the occasion of her survey exhibition.

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/barbara-kasten-stages

The Stages of Barbara Kasten - Interview Magazine After spending four decades dedicated to a singular and consistent practice, artist Barbara Kasten's first comprehensive survey "Barbara Kasten: Stages" is inarguably due.

Barbara Kasten will be the next Lecture in Photography on November 29th @ 6 PM at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Artist Leslie Hewitt interviewed Kasten for BOMB Magazine. We share it here for your information. We'll have another few articles about Kasten posted here before her appearance.

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/barbara-kasten/

Barbara Kasten by Leslie Hewitt - BOMB Magazine Kasten’s photographs capture the fleeting interplay of color, form, and light in the geometric objects she assembles. She spoke to Leslie Hewitt about the expansion of their shared medium.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya gave an engaging Lecture last night for a capacity audience. He met with CCC Photo grads earlier in the day for a conversation about their work and about professional practice.

"Five Questions wit Paul Mpagi Sepuya" from Cultured Magazine...
https://www.culturedmag.com/paul-mpagi-sepuya-2/

Five Questions with Paul Mpagi Sepuya | Cultured Magazine Paul Mpagi Sepuya's photographs seem to simultaneously compress and expand space. Focused primarily on portraiture, the Los Angeles-based artist's

An article by critic and writer Barry Schwabsky looks at the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya. We will post one more article/interview prior to Paul’s appearance on November 7th for your information.

https://www.thenation.com/article/pushing-the-limits-of-photography/

The Reflexive Photography of Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Jason Loebs Two artists push the limits of what cameras can do.

Here is an interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya for your information prior to his visit on November 7th.

https://www.inthein-between.com/paul-mpagi-sepuya/er

Picture, Paper, Friend, and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya ⋆ In the In-Between I first encountered Paul Mpagi Sepuya's work when I walked into his 2017 solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. I didn't so much view his pictures as I did stare at them, trying to reconcile the spatial constructions, to untangle the delicate knots of reference and self-refer...

Big thanks to everyone who came out for our first Lecture in Photography of the Fall 2018 semester with Lucas Foglia, who also met with MFA Photo students for an engaging conversation about his artistic and professional practice.

Join us tonight for the LUCAS FOGLIA Lecture in Photography!

Fall 2018 Lectures in Photography kicks off on Tuesday, September 25th with Lucas Foglia, who is currently exhibiting at CCC's MoCP. Foglia will discuss his project Human Nature as well as his broader artistic practice. Foglia’s work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among others.

Lecture begins at 6:00 PM in CCC's Stage 2, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor. As always admission is FREE to the CCC community and the general public.

An article on upcoming Lecture guest Lucas Foglia...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/13/lucas-foglia-a-natural-order

Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans Raised by back-to-the-landers, he scoured the US in a camper van, seeking out people who have gone further than his parents

Fall 2018 Lectures in Photography kicks off on Tuesday, September 25th with Lucas Foglia, who is currently exhibiting at CCC's MoCP. Foglia will discuss his project Human Nature as well as his broader artistic practice. Foglia’s work is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; among others.

Lecture begins at 6:00 PM in CCC's Stage 2, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor. As always admission is FREE to the CCC community and the general public.

Lesley Martin, editor of Photobook Review at Aperture Foundation, gave an engaging lecture on the current state and history of photobooks, then met with MFA Photography graduates to review their thesis exhibition.

Another informative interview with Lesley Martin before her lecture...

https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/working-photobook-publishing/

Working in Photobook Publishing: Lesley Martin • Magnum Photos Aperture’s Creative Director talks to Magnum about lessons learned during an illustrious career working on photography books

In preparation for our next Lecture guest Lesley Martin on May 9th, here's an interview with Martin about the rise in popularity of the photobook.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aperture-foundation-the-best-and-worst-of-times-talking-photobooks-with-aperture-s-lesley-martin

The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin - Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture A leading expert in the field shares her thoughts on the “golden age” of photobooks and offers advice to aspiring authors

We are happy to add Lesley Martin to our schedule for Spring 2018. Martin will be lecturing on May 9th @ 6 PM in the Ferguson Lecture Hall.

Martin is creative director and publisher of The PhotoBook Review, a newsprint journal dedicated to the evolving conversation surrounding the photobook. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture, American Photo, FOAM, and Lay Flat, among other publications, and she has edited over seventy-five books of photography.

A full house for our first Lectures in Photography of the Spring 2018 semester with Diana Matar tonight. Matar me with graduate MFA Photo students for a discussion about various issues related to her practice and to have a conversation with the grads about their own work.

Our complete Spring 2018 schedule is now confirmed, and what an exciting lineup it is. On January 24th our guest will be arist DIANA MATAR, lecturing in Ferguson Lecture Hall @ 6PM. On March 7th JENNIFER BLESSING, Senior Curator of Photography at the Guggenheim Museum, lecutures in Ferguson Lecture Hall @ 6PM, and on May 9th LESLEY MARTIN, creative director and publisher of The PhotoBook Review at Aperture, will be lecturing, also in Ferguson Lecture Hall @ 6PM. We look forward to seeing all of you this coming semester. Watch this page for interviews and articles about our guests.

Thank all of you who have supported our Lectures in Photography program this semester. We are working on assembling a great group of guests for the Spring 2018 semester. While the list is still in formation, we CAN tell you that Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator of Photography at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will be one of our guests. We are excited to have her joining us, and look forward to having her meet our community and share her ideas.

In anticipation of Blessing's visit, here is a brief interview that gives some insight into her thinking about photography in the 21st century as it relates to an exhibition “Photo-Poetics: An Anthology” that she curated at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle.

Watch this space for further details on all of our upcoming guests. And have a great holiday!

http://db-artmag.com/en/89/feature/artists-can-make-images-speak-in-different-ways-jennifer-blessin/

(Jennifer Blessing portrait by Lina Bertucci)

Here is an interview with Zackary Drucker from Slate online. Drucker will be lecturing on November 29th in Ferguson Lecture Hall @ 6 PM.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/07/28/zackary_drucker_and_rhys_ernst_s_relationship_explores_love_of_the_trans.html

In Relationship, Artists Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst Explore Love in a Time of Transition In Relationship, their new book of photographs, artists Rhys Ernst and Zackary Drucker document the six-year span of their romantic union—a time period ...

Zackary Drucker is the Lectures in Photography guest on November 29th. Here is an interesting article on a project that Drucker and Drucker and Rhys Ernst did, making photographs of each other.

"It is by far the most personal of the many projects they have worked on together. The photographs chronicle their six-year romance, which ended soon after many of these images were shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/magazine/how-two-producers-of-transparent-are-making-trans-lives-more-visible-starting-with-their-own.html

How Two Producers of ‘Transparent’ Made Their Own Trans Lives More Visible The photos Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst took of each other showed a young couple in love. They became an important public record of transgender life.

SF MOMA photography curator Corey Keller gave an engaging lecture on Wednesday and then met with MFA Photo majors for a conversation about their work and professional practice issues.

SF MoMA Photography Curator Corey Keller is our Lectures in Photography speaker next Wednesday @ 6PM in the Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Avenue.

Here is a interview where Keller speaks about the photographs of Diane Arbus which were recently on exhibit at SF MOMA.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/corey-keller-curator-at-sfmoma-on-diane-arbus-in_us_58b49055e4b0658fc20f98d8

COREY KELLER, Curator at SFMOMA – On 'diane arbus: in the beginning' Now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) through April 30 – diane arbus: in the beginning. On display in the museum’s new Pritzker Center f...

Our next Lecture guest is Corey Keller, curator of photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Here is an article she wrote for TIME, "What Images of Construction and Destruction Teach US About Photography."

Keller's lecture will be in Columbia College's Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Avenue, on Wednesday, October 25th @ 6 PM. As always FREE to the CCC community and the public.

http://time.com/3653946/what-images-of-construction-and-destruction-teach-us-about-photography/

What Images of Construction and Destruction Teach Us About Photography With every act of construction, destruction is inevitable