2012 Photography Lectures Series | The Center for Photography at Woodstock



*NO RSVP - Seating is first come first serve - Following each lecture and a Q&A session, speakers will be available to sign copies of their book(s) on sale at CPW
Phillip Toledano	Saturday May 26, 8pm
Phillip Toledano was born in London to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He believes that photographs should be like unfinished sentences. There should always be space for questions. His work is socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography, to installation. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent Magazine, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others. His books include Days with my Father (2010) and A New Kind of Beauty (2012). Phillip is represented by KlompChing Gallery (NYC), Gallery 339 (Philadelphia) and Lux Photo Gallery (Netherlands). www.mrtoledano.com TOP
Sylvia Plachy	Saturday June 2, 8pm
Sylvia Plachy was staff photographer at the Village Voice for about 30 years and she is a regular contributor for The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as Grand Street, New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Art Forum. Her first book, Unguided Tour won the 1990 ICP Infinity Award. Additional books to her credit include Red Light with writer James Ridgeway, Signs and Relics, Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home, Goings On About Town and Out of the Corner of My Eye. Plachy’s photographs are in the collections of MOMA in NYC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, and Minneapolis Institute of Art, among many others. She has had solo exhibits all over the world, and has been featured at PhotoEspana and Look3 Festivals. Sylvia is the recipient of the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lucie Award www.sylviaplachy.com TOP
Vincent Cianni: Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me	Saturday June 16, 8pm
Photographer and educator Vincent Cianni has also worked as a dealer and evaluator for appraisals over his thirty-year career in photography. In 2007, Duke University’s Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library established a study archive dedicated to Cianni's extensive career to “insure the preservation of the documentary record created.” He has exhibited nationally and internationally, received numerous awards and his photographs are represented in multiple private and museum collections. His work has been widely published including We Skate Hardcore, Double Take, Aperture, The New Yorker, Photography as Activism; New York 400: A Visual History of America’s Greatest City; The Polaroid Book and blogs focusing on documentary photography. He teaches photography at Parsons, The New School for Design and the International Center of Photography, has lectured widely and conducted workshops with at-risk youth. vincentcianni.com TOP
Charise Isis	Saturday July 7, 8pm
Charise Isis’ work challenges society’s impossible standards of beauty allowing women of all different ages and body types, and in varying transitional phases of life, to be able to express their sensuality and beauty. Her photographs have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Michael Mazzeo Gallery (NYC), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester MA) and CPW. Additionally, her work is featured in a number of prestigious collections and has been published in Photography Quarterly, Profifoto Magazine, and NY Arts Magazine. Isis’ current project Grace, in which she is documenting the courage of women who have undergone mastectomies, is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. http://www.isisimages.net TOP
Dave Anderson	Friday July 13, 8pm
A multi-talented image-maker, Dave Anderson’s work as both a photographer and filmmaker has been celebrated in the United States and abroad. Dave’s project Rough Beauty was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition from the Santa Fe Center for Photography and became the focus of his first book, which was published in three languages with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. His latest monograph, One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds, was published in 2010 by Aperture Books. Dave’s unique talents extend not only to still photography but also into the realms of television production and the written word. A former MTV producer and director of television production in the Clinton White House, Dave’s video work has also been singled out for recognition. His new video series “SoLost,” created for the Oxford American magazine, recently won Best Video Series at the 2011 National Magazine Awards and he is now producing a sister series with the Oxford American and NPR, entitled “Southword.” www.dbanderson.com TOP
Joseph Rodriguez	CANCELLED
Joseph Rodriguez has spent more than 20 years documenting the struggles of everyday life. His award winning photographs have been published in LIFE, National Geographic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Magazine, amongst others, and exhibited internationally. His books include Spanish Harlem, East Side Stories: Gang Life in East Los Angeles, Juvenile, and Still Here: Stories After Katrina. www.josephrodriguezphotography.com TOP
Connie Imboden	CANCELLED
Connie Imboden's photographs have been exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in England, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the United States. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, the Corcoran Museum in Washington DC, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Her first book of images, Out of Darkness, won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s Schonste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World) Award. Imboden’s work has also been featured in Aperture, American Photo, Camera and Darkroom, Photo Metro, Photo Review, Black and White, View Camera, and Zoom Magazine. Imboden currently teaches photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has lead workshops across the United States, France, and the Czech Republic. www.connieimboden.com TOP
Kelli Connell: Double Life	CANCELLED
Kelli Connell received an MFA from Texas Woman’s University (2003). Her body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photography; and The Dallas Museum of Art. Recent publications include Photo Art: The New World of Photography published by Aperture; Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography published by Phaidon; MP3: Midwest Photographers’ Publication Project co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell teaches at Columbia College Chicago. kelliconnell.com TOP
Brian Ulrich	Friday August 10, 7pm
Brian Ulrich’s photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture reside in major museum collections throughout the United States. Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at such places as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and been featured in group exhibitions at the Walker Art Center and the Art Institute of Chicago, amongst others. His book Copia was published in 2006 by Aperture as part of the MP3: Midwest Photographers Project. In 2007 Ulrich was named one of the years 30 Emerging Photographers by Photo District News magazine, and in 2009 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2011 Aperture, in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art, published his first monograph, Is This Place Great or What. Ulrich’s work has been featured alongside writings by noted academics, environmentalists, and activists such as Bill McKibben and Michael Pollan. He is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Photography and Film department. notifbutwhen.com TOP
Christopher James	Saturday August 18, 8pm
Christopher James is an internationally recognized artist and photographer whose paintings and alternative process images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The first edition of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Delmar Cengage -Albany, NY), received unprecedented critical acclaim and was the winner The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year award. In 2008, a greatly expanded, and lavishly illustrated, 2nd edition was published by Delmar Cengage and has become universally recognized as the definitive text in the genre. A 3rd edition is currently in progress and will be published in 2013. Christopher, after 13 years at Harvard University, is currently University Professor and Director of the MFA and BFA in Photography programs at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. He is also a working graphic designer and a professional scuba diver. www.christopherjames-studio.com TOP
Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth	Friday August 24, 8pm
Shelby Lee Adams was born in Hazard, Kentucky, and has spent most of his career photographing families in Appalachia. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in more than 60 museum and private collections. His books include Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), Appalachian Lives (2003), and the recently published salt & truth (2011). Shelby has received numerous awards throughout his career, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Polaroid Corporation; in 2010 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. shelby-lee-adams.blogspot.com TOP
Mary Ellen Mark: The World Observed	Saturday September 1, 8pm
Mary Ellen Mark is one of the most respected and loved documentary photographers in the world. Her photographs of world cultures, subcultures, and personalities are landmarks in the field. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous photo-essays and portraits in magazines such as The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Rolling Stone. Mary Ellen, a socially committed photographer, who continues to make images of passion and integrity, has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Cornell Capa Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mary Ellen has published fourteen books including the most recent Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, published by Phaidon in 2008. Marianne Boesky gallery in NYC represents her work. www.maryellenmark.com TOP
Constantine Manos: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary	Saturday September 15, 8pm
Constantine Manos is a member of Magnum Photos. His books include Portrait of A Symphony, A Greek Portfolio, Bostonians, and American Color. The son of Greek immigrant parents, he grew up in South Carolina - where he received a B.A. English Literature from the University of South Carolina. Manos' photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House in Rochester, and others. Manos has conducted Master Classes in Maine, Cuba, Mexico, and Greece. In 2003 he won the Leica Medal of Excellence out of a world-wide field of 250 entries. www.costamanos.com TOP
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Kelli Connell: Double Life

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