Atlanta Book Signing and Talk with Kelli Connell
Book Signing
Atlanta Book Signing and Talk with Kelli Connell
Sunday, September 8
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EDT
Join Aperture and Lucian Books and Wine for a conversation between artist Kelli Connell and curator Greg Harris in celebration of Connell’s latest publication, Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024).
Pictures for Charis offers a groundbreaking new work by artist Kelli Connell, synthesizing text and image, while raising vital questions about photography, gender, and portraiture in the twenty-first century. This project is driven by the photographer’s obsession with the writer Charis Wilson, Edward Weston’s partner, model, and collaborator during one of the most productive segments of his historic career. Connell focuses on Wilson and Weston’s shared legacy, traveling with her own partner, Betsy Odom, to locales where the latter couple made photographs together more than eighty years ago.
A coinciding exhibition, Pictures for Charis, co-organized with the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography and the Cleveland Museum of Art, will be on view at the High Museum in Atlanta, September 20, 2024–January 5, 2025.
Books are available for purchase as an “add-on” to your event ticket, or on site when you arrive, along with a selection of beverages.
This event is presented in partnership with Lucian Books and Wine.
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Kelli Connell (born in Oklahoma City, 1974) is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity, and photographer/sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others. Connell has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and the Center for Creative Photography. Connell is an editor at Skylark Editions and a professor at Columbia College Chicago.
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Image: Kelli Connell, Betsy, Santa Fe, 2016; from Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Kelli Connell
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