American Geography | Borders + Territories | Live Virtual Talk
Thursday, July 29, 2021
3 pm PT | 4 pm MT | 5 pm CT | 6 pm ET
Radius Books invites you to join photographers Miguel Fernández de Castro and Edward Ranney in conversation with curators Sally Martin Katz, John Rohrbach, and Sandra S. Phillips about American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, with a focus on the theme of borders and territories, in both a historical and contemporary context.
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ABOUT THE PANELISTS
MIGUEL FERNÁNDEZ DE CASTRO (b. Sonora, 1986) is a visual artist whose work examines how extractive and criminal economies materially transform a territory. Through long-term projects he has developed a body of work through photography, video, sculpture, archives and writing. His work has been shown at Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orleans; Laika e-flux, New York; Museo de Geología, UNAM, Mexico City; Spazio Veda, Florence; The Wren Library, Cambridge; Museo Artium, Vitoria; Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City; Casa del Lago, Mexico City; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Mexico City; Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver; Bikini Wax, Mexico City; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles; among others. He has been resident at PAOS, Guadalajara, and at Casa Gallina-InSite, Mexico City, among others. Recently, his short film Grammar of Gates was selected by Ballroom Marfa to be shown in Artists’ Film International (AFI) 2020, organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery.
EDWARD RANNEY (American, b. 1942), was raised in Illinois and has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his family since 1970. He began photographing seriously while on a post-graduate Fulbright fellowship in Cuzco from 1964-65. Since then he has travelled on more than 20 occasions to photograph at ancient sites around Cuzco and on the coastal deserts of Peru and Chile. His initial work from the 1970s was published in 1982 as Monuments of the Incas, now in its third printing. Publication in 2014 of The Lines represents the first significant presentation of the body of work he calls The Andean Desert Survey, which includes pictures of monumental architecture dating from as early as 4000 BC, of extensive later sites along Peru and Chile's desert coasts, and terminates in the early 16th century with structures associated with the Inca occupation of western South America. Ranney has also photographed in the American Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where he lives. (Courtesy WSJ Magazine)
SALLY MARTIN KATZ is Curatorial Assistant of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Concurrently, she is a PhD candidate in art history, specializing in history of photography, at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Michel Poivert. With Clément Chéroux she co-edited the books Louis Stettner: Traveling Light (2018) and snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019), which accompanied the exhibitions at SFMOMA. She earned an MA in art history and an MFA in Photography from the Sorbonne. While living in Paris, she worked as curatorial assistant at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and worked on the photographic archive of the Greek, Roman & Etruscan Antiquities Department at the Musée du Louvre. Her earliest work experiences in the museum field were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and International Center of Photography Museum. She received a BA magna cum laude in art history and French literature from Brown University.
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.
JOHN ROHRBACH is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, where he has been employed since 1992. Dr. Rohrbach started his career at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and was director of the Paul Strand Archive before gaining his doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Delaware in 1993. In addition to numerous exhibitions related to American photography, he has published many books, including Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness, Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke, Reframing the New Topographics, and Color: American Photography Transformed.