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Eye of History: The Camera as Witness + Perry Bard Talk
Friday November 7, 2008, 4:30-6:30pm
CFA CINEMA
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow: 6:30-7:30pm
EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY
Center for the Arts | Wesleyan University | Middletown, Connecticut
Internationally renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald, Eric Gottesman, and Susan Meiselas join acclaimed writer and critic David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography’s role in the world today. Wesleyan President and hiswill introduce the panel. A Q&A session will follow.
A reception and viewing of the exhibition Framing and Being
Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography will begin
immediately after the panel in Zilkha Gallery.
Co-sponsored by The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life,
Center for the Arts, Center for the Humanities, History and Theory, and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.
RELATED EVENT
Artist talk with Perry Bard, creator of
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Friday, November 7, noon-1pm
EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY
Please join New York artist Perry Bard as she talks about her
ground-breaking participatory video currently in Zilkha Gallery’s Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography and shot by people around the world. You are invited to interpret Vertov’s 1929 experimental documentary film and upload your own footage to Bard’s site http://dziga.perrybard.net Several days later it will be projected in Zilkha’s North
Gallery alongside the original film. For additional information,
please contact Nina Felshin nfelshin@wesleyan.edu>
Sponsored by Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Update from grantee Eric Gottesman
I thought you would be interested in this show I’m in at Wesleyan. It’s a show called “Framing and Being Framed,” curated by Nina Felshin, sort of about the role of the subject-photographer relationship. Other cool artist-photographers are in it (Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, An-My Le, Koto Ezawa, and others). My installation is a collaboration with Sudden Flowers, the collective from Ethiopia with whom I have been working for 9 years. Members of the Ethiopian art collective designed the conceptual set-up of the show and I installed it, along with a video that they made.
Also, there is a conference around the themes of photography and historical interpretation on November 7-8: http://eyeofhistory.wesleyan.edu/conference/index.html.