Photography lecture series interpreted! Free admission! 1. ACP Lecture Series: Nicholas Nixon September 26 @ Woodruff Arts Center Work by Nicholas Nixon Lecture Thu, Sep 26, 7pm Since the 1970s, Boston-based photographer Nicholas Nixon (born Detroit, 1947) has practiced large-format portraiture and documentary photography, forging a rich and varied body of work celebrated for its humanistic approach and meticulous detail. Nixon’s best-known series, The Brown Sisters is a serial portrait study that began in 1975 and continues to the present. His work is included in collections at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among numerous others. Thanks to the generous promised gift of Lucinda Bunnen, the High is one of the few institutions nationwide that will act as a repository for the entire vintage set of Nixon’s Brown Sisters prints. Presented in partnership with the High Museum of Art. This program is free, however seating is limited and must be reserved through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000. Limit two tickets per person. Tickets to the Museum are sold separately. location Woodruff Arts Center Rich Theatre 1280 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 ----- Interpreter: Nancy Holdren 2. ACP Lecture Series: Alison Wright October 3 @ Pace Academy Work by Alison Wright Thu, Oct 3, 7pm Journey around the world with National Geographic photographer Alison Wright, as she captures the universal human spirit through her lens. Ms. Wright, a New York-based documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. A recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her work with child labor in Asia, Alison travels to the remotest regions of the globe photographing endangered cultures and people, while covering issues concerning the human condition for many of her projects. The photos from her latest book, Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit portrays the indomitable spirit that lives within us all. It is what bonds us as mankind, a continued thread, as together we continue on this journey in the pilgrimage of life. Wright’s photography has been published in a number of National Geographic books and publications, Outside, Islands, Smithsonian Magazine, American Photo, Natural History, Time and The New York Times. Wright’s life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident on a remote jungle road in Laos and her recent memoir, Learning to Breathe: One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her inspirational story of survival, years of rehabilitation, and ongoing determination to recover and continue to travel the world as an intrepid photojournalist. location Pace Academy Auditorium 966 W. Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 Interpreter: Nancy Holdren ----- 3. ACP Lecture Series: Deborah Willis, Ph.D. October 17 @ Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Work by Deborah Willis Curator’s talk Thu, Oct 17, 7pm Deborah Willis, Ph.D. is one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and curators of African American culture. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Dr. Willis is also a prolific author. The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is the first institution in the Southeast to present Dr. Willis’ nationally touring exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture (September 5 – December 7). This exhibition explores the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been informed by photographers and artists working from 1890 to the present. For this event, Dr. Willis leads a conversation examining and challenging conventional perspectives on identity, beauty, cosmopolitanism, and community in Africa and the African Diaspora. She will also examine the relationship between beauty and politics and how such topics have shaped a new understanding of reading black culture from the antebellum period to the present. This program is organized in partnership with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and is part of the Spelman College Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Lecture Series. Location Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center 350 Spelman Lane, Box 1526, Atlanta, GA 30314 Interpreter: Faith Powell
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