Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
Special Event
Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
Thursday, October 10 - Friday, October 11
Organized by Deana Lawson, photographer and guest editor of Aperture No. 256, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton will present a two-day symposium and concurrent exhibition that will gather photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and graduate and undergraduate students to explore photography’s instability, fallibility, and its troubled relationship to the document.
Lawson will lead the symposium alongside Dorothy Krauklis, Princeton University Professor of Visual Arts, Jeff Whetstone, Director of the Program in Visual Arts, and James Welling, Lecturer with the Rank of Professor of Visual Arts.
In conjunction with the symposium, the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts Complex will feature an exhibition cocurated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor in chief of Aperture.
Registration information and further details will be posted in early September.
Symposium Schedule Includes:
Thursday, October 10
- 7:30 pm: Public Conversation, “Collaborative Histories,” Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University
Ongoing | Concurrent Exhibition
- On view October 1–December 5, 10:00 am–8:00 pm EDT, Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts Complex
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Image: Jenny Calivas, Self Portrait While Buried #1, 2019
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