Photo Fridays: Staged for the Camera
May 4, 2012
11:30am - 3:30pm
CCP Print Study Room, Free Admission
Since photography’s inception, its practitioners have arranged people and objects in front of their cameras for both practical and aesthetic considerations. Investigations into framing, composition, allegory, and interpretation will be presented, as well as images that explore the camera’s ability to describe and transform shapes, textures, light, and shadow. This viewing will include work by Ruth Bernhard, Paul Caponigro, Margrethe Mather, Eadweard Muybridge, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Photo Friday is an exclusive look at the Center’s world-renowned fine art photograph collection. The first Friday of every month from 11:30am to 3:30pm, the public will be able to view original works of photographic art in our Print Study Room on the second floor. Without frame or glass, visitors can examine each photograph’s surface, see detail otherwise obscured by protective glass, and connect with the works on an intimate level. This is an extraordinary opportunity typically enjoyed by specialists. Expect to see collection highlights as well as surprising, lesser-known treasures that will help inform your knowledge of the history of photography, its techniques, and its practitioners. The works selected for Photo Friday will change every month, so we hope visitors will want to come back for Photo Fridays throughout the year. Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter
April 24, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken's artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950's and reassembled magazines created in the 1990's. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Heinecken's penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials. Batten is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois. He received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Curator's Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector
April 19, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Claudia Bohn-Spector will discuss the current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, that she co-curated with Sam Mellon. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.
Kenneth D. Allan: Radio-Mastery of the Ether - Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los Angeles
April 12, 2012
5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Kenneth D. Allan’s research focuses on the rise of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and has included the work and influence of Wallace Berman. A central figure in development of the postwar Los Angeles art world as the editor of the journal Semina, Berman’s work spanned the media of photography, collage, assemblage sculpture, and film. This talk will consider how his interest in the history of radio technology, Jewish mysticism and ideas of transmission and reception come together in his later work with stones and Hebrew lettering inspired by a prized 1923 book in his library, The Story of Modern Science Vol. IX: Radio-Mastery of the Ether. Kenneth Allan is Assistant Professor of Art History at Seattle University and received his MA and PhD from University of Chicago. His recent publications include essays for the Getty Museum catalog, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Lucy R. Lippard
Expecting the Unexpected: Women Artists and Climate Change
April 9, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission Photo Fridays: The Modernists
April 6, 2012
11:30am - 3:30pm
CCP Print Study Room, Free Admission Artist’s Talk: Carter Mull
March 29, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: José Galvez
March 19, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Photo Fridays: Frida Kahlo and her Circle
March 2, 2012
11:30am - 3:30pm
CCP Print Study Room, Free Admission
Mary Virginia Swanson:
Ansel Adams: Advocate for American Photography
March 1, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Photo Fridays: Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass
February 3, 2012
11:30am - 3:30pm
CCP Print Viewing Room, Free Admission Harold Jones: Every Picture Tells a Story
January 20, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission The October Conversation (password required) |
