Radius Books and The Green Arcade invite you to join Sandra S. Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to celebrate the launch of American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present in honor of Barry Lopez, with Debra Gwartney, author and educator; Toby Jurovics, Director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment; and poet Beverly Dahlen, including live readings of recent work from Robert Adams and Barry Lopez.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
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, later that year she was awarded a residency in Tokyo to study Japanese photography by the Japanese government, and in 2019 she was a scholar at the Getty Research Institute. She has organized many exhibitions, some of them monographic, including Diane Arbus Revelations (1995) and Ansel Adams at 100 (2001), and examinations of the role of photography in policing and surveillance, including Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera since 1870. In 1996, she organized Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, which traveled widely. The present volume is an expansion of this earlier exhibition catalogue.
Born in Salmon, Idaho, a fifth generation Idahoan, DEBRA GWARTNEY is the winner of the 2018 RiverTeeth Nonfiction Prize, judged by Gretel Ehrlich. Her hybrid memoir-history, called I Am a Stranger Here Myself, was published in March of 2019 by the University of New Mexico Press. Debra’s first book is a memoir, Live Through This, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Oregon Book Award. Debra has published widely, with work included in such journals as Granta, Tin House, American Scholar, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Washington Square Review, Kenyon Review, Salon, Triquarterly Review, the NYT “Modern Love” column, among others. She is the 2018 winner of the Real Simple essay contest. She is a contributing editor at Poets & Writersmagazine and in 2015 won the Crab Orchard Review prize for nonfiction. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Playa, UCross, and the Wurlitzer Foundation.
TOBY JUROVICS is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment, which works with contemporary artists to create installations about climate change and our relationship with the land in a time of environmental crisis. Prior to this, he was chief curator and curator of American western art at Joslyn Art Museum, and a curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century photographic surveys of the American West, he has organized over fifty exhibitions on artists including Robert Adams, Barbara Bosworth, Emmet Gowin, A.J. Russell, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Wylie as well as numerous group exhibitions, and has published essays on Karl Bodmer, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Steve Fitch, John Gossage and the New Topographics. He lives in New Mexico.
BEVERLY DAHLEN, a native of Portland, Oregon, has lived and worked in San Francisco for many years. Her first three books (Out of the Third; A Letter at Easter; The Egyptian Poems) were republished by Little Red Leaves Editions in 2012. Parts of her long open ended work called A Readinghave been published over the years by various presses. She has recently published work in the anthology ATTN: July 31, 2015 published by Further Other Book Works. Dahlen is a recipient of a 2013 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York.
PATRICK MARKS is the proprietor of The Green Arcade, since 2008 a bookstore and event space in San Francisco. The Green Arcade specializes in the natural and the built environment, with an emphasis on social justice issues.