Lectures in Photography - Columbia College Chicago

12/20/2020

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.

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 ...

12/20/2020

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).

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...

10/10/2019

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

09/26/2019

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

05/10/2019

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.

02/16/2019

Lalla Essaydi will give the next Lecture in Photography on Wednesday, February 27th @ 6 PM at CCC's Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor. Admission is FREE to the general public and the Columbia community.

Essaydi is a Moroccan photographer and painter who now lives and works in the USA. Essaydi appropriates the distorted lens of Orientalism to document her own experience growing up as an Arab woman within Islamic culture. Known for appropriating the male art of calligraphy and applying it to women’s bodies in henna, a traditionally female art, Essaydi suggests the complexity of Arab female identity as she subtly critiques cultural patterns. In doing so, she hopes to invite viewers to combat stereotypes. Essaydi also works in other media, such as video, film, and installation.

Essaydi received her MFA and BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/TUFTS University, and also attended L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Essaydi’s work is represented in collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among several others. The most recent solo publication of her work, Lalla Essaydi: Crossing Boundaries, Bridging Cultures, was published in 2015 by ACR Edition.

02/16/2019

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

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

02/16/2019

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

11/30/2018

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

11/27/2018

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

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