Sat 7/22 @ 2PM
In recent decades, the Cleveland Museum of Art has expanded its photography collection, offering one of the area’s most valuable assets for the study of the medium’s history, and how it reveals culture and community.
Dr. Deborah Willis, who is a professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will be at the museum’s Gartner Auditorium to deliver a lecture on “Shaping Critical Narratives in Photography” to put some of that in perspective.
In particular, she’ll focus on how race and gender impact response to photography, and how photographers responded to the social issues of their day.
“This lecture will mediate between the objectification of the black body and (re)presenting the black body as it connects to the photographs of Leonard Freed, Louis Draper, Gordon Parks, Bruce Davidson, Carrie Mae Weems, Jamel Shabazz, and other photo artists who are actively involved in changing the course of art history and fundamentally imaging the black in Western art,” says CMA’s press release.
It’s free but reservations are recommended. Go to engage.clevelandart.org or call 216-421-7350.