Sid Kaplan on Saturday
Talk at 2pm on 25th by the genius who printed the works of one Usher Fellig. You’re probably going to see Dean Chapman at Kirkleatham Museum instead, right?
Popularity: 22% [?]
DCAP seminar tomorrow
The Durham Centre for Advanced Photography has started their annual seminar series, open to Durham University faculty members and interested members of the public. This one’s very exciting (but so are they all). From the invitation letter:
Dr Ian Walker will be giving a seminar on ‘Bill Brandt Underground: Tracing the Shelter Photographs in the Archive’. Ian has published widely on twentieth century photography. His books include:
City Gorged With Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris (Manchester University Press, 2002) and
So Exotic, So Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography/ (MUP, 2008).
Here’s an abstract of Dr Walker’s presentation. The seminar takes place in Elvet Riverside 1, room A56, and starts tomorrow, 16th October at 5.30pm. Do let me know if you’re going.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Pierfrancesco Celada’s Last Step
An exciting opportunity to see Pierfrancesco Celada’s latest body of work in his modern pilgrimages series is beginning on Monday evening with an invited preview.
Italian photographer, Pierfrancesco Celada, presents a new part of his ongoing investigation into the concept of modern pilgrimages. Every year, driven by both religious and cultural beliefs, thousands of pilgrims walk different routes through Spain from all over Europe to the shrine of St. James, in Santiago de Compostela. The last 100 km is where all these routes cross, and where tourists and the curious increase in number; especially in the summer months when St. James’ festival takes place. After weeks of solitary pilgrimage, because of this multitude of tourists, visitors and pilgrims the return into society is sometimes challenging.
Celada won this year’s Michael Ormerod Travel Award, an annual competition held in memory of the Newcastle photographer who died tragically whilst on one of his US road trips. Dan Prince was this year’s judge, and we hope he’ll be there at the opening with a few words about what made Pier’s work stand out among the high standard of entries. We will ask him, although the St James’s Park photographs that won Pier this award are distinctive and compelling. There’ll be an interview with Celada here soon. Milan to Newcastle - hmm. Why here, why now?
See you on Monday.
Mandela Building,
School of Art and Design
Newcastle College
MAP
October 13 – October 31 2008
Opening October 13: 18:00 – 19:00
Popularity: 8% [?]