Radius Books invites you to join photographers Stephen Shore and Wendel White, and author Richard B. Woodward in a conversation with curators Joshua Chuang and Sandra S. Phillips about American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, with a focus on the Northeast region of the United States.
Originally aired live on Thursday, May 6, 2021, at 2 pm PT | 3 pm MT | 4 pm CT | 5 pm ET
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Joshua Chuang is head of the Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs at the New York Public Library, where he also serves as the Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography. His past projects include Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Santu Mofokeng: Stories, Mark Ruwedel's Westward the Course of Empire, and Sun Gardens: The Cyanotypes of Anna Atkins.
Sandra S. Phillips editor of American Geography 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 countless exhibitions and monographs.
Interested in photography from an early age, Stephen Shore received a Kodak Junior darkroom set for his sixth birthday and began to use a 35 mm camera three years later. Shore’s career began at fourteen, when he presented his photographs to Edward Steichen, Director of Photography at MoMA. Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three of his photographs. At seventeen, Shore met Andy Warhol and began photographing Warhol and his circle. In 1971, at the age of 23, he became the first living photographer to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. In 2017, MoMA opened a major retrospective spanning 50 years of Shore's career. His work is represented by 303 Gallery and Sprüth Magers. Since 1982 he has been director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
Wendel A. White was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White taught photography at the School of Visual Arts; The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; the International Center for Photography; Rochester Institute of Technology; and is currently Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University. His work has received various awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, three artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, a photography grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a New Works Photography Fellowship from En Foco Inc. His work is represented in various museums and corporate collections, and recent projects include: Red Summer; Manifest; Schools for the Colored; Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel; and Small Towns, Black Lives.
Richard B. Woodward is an arts critic in New York. His essays on photography have been published in more than 20 books, including catalogs for the exhibitions Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (2008) and Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera since 1870 (2010). He has written for numerous magazines, including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and is a regular contributor to the Wall St. Journal and New York Times.