American Geography | Industrialization | Live Virtual Talk

Thursday, June 3, 2021
3 pm PT | 4 pm MT | 5 pm CT | 6 pm ET

Radius Books invites you to join photographer Gregory Halpern, and curators Keith Davis and Sandra S. Phillips in a conversation with publisher David Chickey about American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, with a focus on the history of industrialization in the United States.

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ABOUT THE PANELISTS

KEITH DAVIS has been a photography curator and historian for over forty years. After an internship at the George Eastman House, he oversaw the Hallmark Photographic Collection from 1979 to 2005. He was senior curator of photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in Kansas City, Missouri, until 2020. ⁠

GREGORY HALPERN was born in Buffalo, New York. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is an Associate Member of Magnum Photos. He has published seven books of photographs. He teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology.⁠

SANDRA S. PHILLIPS is Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she was appointed Curator of Photography in 1987, and Senior Curator of Photography in 1999. She retired from the museum in 2016, and since then has worked as Adjunct Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and has contributed to various publications. In 2000 she was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome, and she has organized numerous exhibitions and monographs.