American Geography | The West | Live Virtual Talk

Thursday, June 17, 2021
3 pm PT | 4 pm MT | 5 pm CT | 6 pm ET

Radius Books invites you to join Mitch Epstein, Mark Ruwedel, and Richard White in conversation with curator Sandra S. Phillips and publisher David Chickey about American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present with a focus on the West.

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ABOUT THE PANELISTS

MITCH EPSTEIN (born 1952, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is a photographer who helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. His photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Tate Modern in London. In 2020, Mitch Epstein was inducted as an Academician to the National Academy of Design. In 2011, Epstein won the Prix Pictet for American Power. Among his other awards are the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters from the American Academy in Berlin (2008), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003).

MARK RUWEDEL is a Photographer and Professor Emeritus at California State University. He is represented in museums throughout the world, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Canada, and many others. Recent publications include Dog Houses, 2017; Ouarzazate, 2018; seventy-two Miles Across Los Angeles, 2020; and Palms/Capri, 2020. His work has been reproduced in over 75 books and catalogs. Mark Ruwedel’s Archive has been acquired by the Stanford Libraries, Department of Special Collections.

RICHARD WHITE is an Emeritus Professor of American History at Stanford. He is a historian of the United States specializing in the American West, the history of capitalism, environmental history, history and memory, and Native American history. His work has won numerous academic prizes, and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written several books, articles, and chapters, including California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History (2020), and many others.

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.