2012 Friends of Photography Member Events and Programs
MARCH 2012
Member Collections: Kevin Kaplan Monday, March 5
Friends of Photography member, Kevin Kaplan, will open his home to fellow members to discuss photographs from his personal collection and his experiences working with Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, and Irving Penn. By invitation only for Friends of Photography members.
APRIL 2012
Picturing Vishniac: A Closer Reading, New Work and the Repositioning of a Master Photographer Tuesday, April 3
Curator and critic Maya Benton delivers the annual Kasman Family Lecture.
Friends of Photography is partnering with the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies to present a lecture by Maya Benton. Benton is adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, where she is establishing a major public archive of Roman Vishniac's work, in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., which will culminate in an NEA-funded traveling retrospective and catalog, set to open at ICP in 2013. Her research focuses on documentary photographs of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, Israeli contemporary photography and video art, and Jewish visual culture and vernacular photography.
Harry Ransom Center Prothro Theater
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Take an insider's look into the manuscript, rare book, film, performing arts, and photography collections at the Ransom Center.
CONTACT US
For more information on membership in Friends of Photography, please contact Margie Rine at 512-471-9643 or margierine@mail.utexas.edu.
Please be aware that Ransom Center events may be photographed and/or filmed. Your attendance constitutes your authorization for the Center to use your photograph, voice, or other likeness for purposes related to the mission of the Ransom Center, including but not limited to marketing and promotion in both print and electronic forms.
