November | December 2003 - Boston Photography Focus

education programs at the prc
LECTURES
natures of those who have made this road
their home.
Jane Bernard is a documentary and editorial
photographer whose work has appeared in
U.S. News and World Report, the L.A. Times,
and the Washington Post. She has worked as
a staff reporter for the Albuquerque Journal and
photographed for the U.S. Geological Survey
book The Grand Canyon, 100 Years of Change.
Polly Brown is a social-documentary photographer
whose photo-essays and editorial work have
been published in the New York Times Magazine,
Mother Jones, and Psychology Today. She is the
co-author of City Limits, a book on the
people and neighborhoods of Boston. She
was an Associate Professor of Photography
at the International Center of Photography
in New York and at the University of Hawaii.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide and
is in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art
Museum, the Rose Museum, Polaroid Corporation,
among many. She has received numerous
grants, including a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship.
David Hilliard
Co-Sponsored by the New England School
of Photography
Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 7 p.m.
College of Communications, Auditorium 101,
640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Free to the Public.
David Hilliard makes space and time meld in
the mini dramas he constructs in his multiple
panel compositions of color saturated C-Prints.
In his work, Hilliard depicts panoramic views
of ordinary scenes he sets up over a sequence
of multiple photos. However, instead of tracking
across the scene in a straight linear fashion,
he distorts the space by pulling the image plain
in unexpected directions, creating a wide-angle
view of his subjects and the space they inhabit.
His scenes take place in suburban lawns,
gymnasiums, and florist shops and the people
within them, seem emotionally distant. In
contrast, the colors of his images are rich,
saturated, and intoxicating.
Hilliard has been a lecturer and faculty member
at Yale University and Harvard University
in addition to his career as a photographer.
His work has been exhibited in numerous
solo and group shows in the United States
and beyond. Currently, Hilliard’s latest work
is on display at the Bernard Toale Gallery,
Boston, MA in the exhibition David Hilliard:
New Work (Nov 12-Dec 24).
John Paul Caponigro
Co-Sponsored by the New England School
of Photography
Thursday December 4, 2003, 6 p.m.
Photonics Center, Auditorium 206,
8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA
Reservations Required.
Please call 617-975-0600
John Paul Caponigro is respected internationally
as one of the most prominent artists working
From the series Carnival Strippers, courtesy of Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos.
Susan Meiselas
Lecture and Booksigning
Monday, November 17, 2003, 6 p.m.
Photonics Center, Auditorium 206,
8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA
$7 Members/$10 Non-Members
$5 Full-Time Students and Seniors
Reservations Recommended.
Please call 617-975-0600.
Susan Meiselas is a photojournalist and social
documentarian who has gone to places and
been in situations where many others have
dared not go. Her courage, strength, and
strong convictions have led her to India, Chile,
Nicaragua, and El Salvador, and her coverage
of hostilities in Central America earned her
the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas
Press Club in 1979. Meiselas’s early work was
published in two books—Carnival Strippers
and Nicaragua. In 1996, she completed project
integrating her work into the 100-year photographic
history of Kurdistan in the book
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. In 2001,
she explored a New York s&m club in Pandora’s
Box. Most recently, she explored the 60-year
history of outsiders’ relationships with the
Dani, an indigenous people of the highlands
of Papau in Indonesia, in Encounters with the
Dani. In addition to still photography, Meiselas
has co-directed two films, and wrote, photographed
and produced a third. Her written
articles have appeared in a long list of prestigious
books, journals, and papers. As if it weren’t
enough, her dedication and strong belief in
education have led her to develop curricula
using photography and animated film for
the New York City public school system,
and, as artist-in-residence for the South
Carolina and Mississippi Arts Commissions,
she set up film and photography programs
in rural southern schools.
A booksigning will follow Meiselas’s lecture.
Copies of Encounters with Dani and the recently
reprinted Carnival Strippers will be available for
sale that evening.
American Route 66:
Home on the Road
A Lecture-Presentation by Polly Brown
and Jane Bernard
Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 6 p.m.
School of Education, Boston University,
Auditorium 130,
2 Sherborn Street, Boston, MA
$7 Members/$10 Non-Members
$5 Full-Time Students and Seniors
Reservations Required.
Please call 617-975-0600.
Route 66 is a historic and mythical highway.
Uniquely American, it has become a symbol
of mom-and-pop diners, apple pie, and the
adventure of the open road. For three years,
photographers Polly Brown and Jane Bernard
traveled the road to document, through photographs
and first-person accounts, the American
spirit, so evident in the playful and determined
Photograph by David Hilliard. Courtesy of the Bernard Toale Gallery.
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