KODAK LECTURE SERIES 2007-2008
Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Calhoun 19:10:2007
Aril 4th, 2008
David Trattles“Globe Trotter and Social Documentary Photographer”
Friday, April 4, 2008
More than fifteen years ago, David Trattles, who had not studied photography, took a brand new camera, two rolls of film, and took off on his bicycle for a trip that took him from Turkey to Hong Kong. The trip was great, the pictures awful. He decided to go on another bicycle trip, this time across Russia, and learned all about photography along the way. Today, his exhilarating images have gained him respect as an accomplished documentary photographer.
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February 7th, 2008, 7:30pm:
Eduardo KacThursday, February 7, 2008
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world.
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October 19th, 2007, 7:30pm:
Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick CalhounFriday, october 19, 2007
Born in New Orleans in the 1950's, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Calhoun have been chronicling the everyday life of the city's Lower Ninth Ward for more than a quarter century. From documenting pleasure clubs to bluesman, clock-workers to churchgoers, the Calhouns have rooted their career in the neighbourhood they grew up in.
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September 27th, 2007, 7:30pm:
Mary Ellen MaRK“Most Influential Woman Photographer”
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Over the course of her career, Mary Ellen Mark has produced numerous widely acclaimed and influential photographic series whose subjects have included women in the Oregon State Mental Hospital’s maximum-security ‘Ward 81’, prostitutes working in the Falkland Road brothels of Bombay, runaway children in Seattle, as well as a series focusing on the legendary Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Her photographic treatment of her subjects illuminates the difficulties of their, sometimes tragic, lives without condescension or sentimentality.
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