Behind the Binding: Diana Markosian and Pauline Vermare in Conversation
Partner Event
Behind the Binding: Diana Markosian and Pauline Vermare in Conversation
Saturday, March 1
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST
Join Aperture and Leica Gallery New York for a conversation between photographer Diana Markosian and curator Pauline Vermare. They will discuss Markosian’s most recent publication, Father (Aperture, 2024), an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.
Diana Markosian: Father presents the photographer’s journey to another place and another time, where Markosian attempts to piece together an image of a familiar stranger—her long-lost father. The book explores her father’s absence, her reconciliation with him, and the shared emptiness of their prolonged estrangement. The images, made over the course of a decade, take place in her father’s home in Armenia. Father follows her first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), in which Markosian recreates the story of her family’s journey from post–Soviet Russia to the US in the 1990s.
This program is presented in partnership with Leica Gallery. RSVP is required. Reservations can be made here.
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Diana Markosian (born in Moscow, 1989) is among the leaders of a new generation of photographers and lens-based artists advancing documentary storytelling through image-making. Her photographs have been published in Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New Yorker. Her work is represented by Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris. The artist’s acclaimed first monograph, Santa Barbara (Aperture, 2020), was selected as one of the top books of the year by Time and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine. She holds an MS from Columbia University in New York.
Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. She was previously the cultural director of Magnum Photos, New York, and a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris.
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Image: Diana Markosian, My Mother’s Album; from the series Father; from Diana Markosian: Father (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Aperture
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