Handmade Photography Today: A Virtual Artist Talk Series - Gerardo SuterThursday, April 22, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pmVirtual - Free and open to the public; advanced registration required.The Davis Museum continues the Handmade Photography Today artist talk series with a focus on “Portraits of Place.” This spring, we will hear from four acclaimed photographers working in alternative processes: Zohra Opoku (photo processing on textiles), Pushpamala N (tableaux and studio photography), Gerardo Suter (manipulated gelatin silver prints), and David Benjamin Sherry (analog color prints). Each artist’s chosen format inflects the aesthetic, social, and political consequences of their work. In foregrounding material processes in relation to image content, this second part of the Handmade Photography Today series will elaborate themes explored in the fall, while confronting a range of pressing issues related to the role of cultural memories and visual archives in contemporary formations of place.
Join James Oles, Senior Lecturer in Art at Wellesley College and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at the Davis Museum, in conversation with photographer Gerardo Suter, whose experiments in the darkroom reflect on the legacy of exploration photography from 19th-century Mexico.
Preregistration required here.
Co-hosted with the Photographic Resource Center
Generously sponsored by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation
Thursday, April 22, 2021 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual - Free and open to the public; advanced registration required.
The Davis Museum continues the Handmade Photography Today artist talk series with a focus on “Portraits of Place.” This spring, we will hear from four acclaimed photographers working in alternative processes: Zohra Opoku (photo processing on textiles), Pushpamala N (tableaux and studio photography), Gerardo Suter (manipulated gelatin silver prints), and David Benjamin Sherry (analog color prints). Each artist’s chosen format inflects the aesthetic, social, and political consequences of their work. In foregrounding material processes in relation to image content, this second part of the Handmade Photography Today series will elaborate themes explored in the fall, while confronting a range of pressing issues related to the role of cultural memories and visual archives in contemporary formations of place.
Join James Oles, Senior Lecturer in Art at Wellesley College and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at the Davis Museum, in conversation with photographer Gerardo Suter, whose experiments in the darkroom reflect on the legacy of exploration photography from 19th-century Mexico.
Preregistration required here.
Co-hosted with the Photographic Resource Center
Generously sponsored by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation