Watch: Andrea Douglas on “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story”, LOOK3 2015
Andrea Douglas on "The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story"
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, 2015
Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of Charlottesville’s Jefferson School African American Heritage Center will present “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story” in celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. Just nine months after the end of the Civil War, the Jefferson School opened its doors and continued to operate solely for African Americans in Charlottesville until 1965. For 150 years, the School has been a thriving and constant fixture in the local landscape—and its students, teachers, and supporting community have played a decisive role in the modern history of Charlottesville. Andrea’s compelling presentation celebrates this story through personal narrative and a visual history drawn from the Jefferson School photographic archives.
Andrea Douglas holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, NY. Formerly, she was curator of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the University of Virginia. Andrea’s research considers the cultural and social connections in the biographies of 20th and 21st century artists of the African Diaspora.
https://jeffschoolheritagecenter.org
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Zanele Muholi Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
Zanele Muholi, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discusses her photographic work with interviewer Chris Boot at the Paramount Theater. Muholi has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of "corrective rape", assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. Interviewer Chris Boot is the Executive Director of Aperture Foundation.
Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, South Africa in 1972, and received an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, Toronto. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Stevenson, Johannesburg; the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Zanele participated in the 55th Venice Biennial in 2013 and dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012.
Among many honors, Carnegie International awarded Zanele the Fine Prize for emerging artists in 2013, and her work was presented at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Muholi’s work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Modern, London; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Zanele has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of “corrective rape," assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. She founded Inkanyiso in 2009, a nonprofit organization concerned with visual activism and media advocacy on behalf of the LGBTI community. In 2013, she was appointed Honorary Professor of video and photography at the University of the Arts/Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany. Zanele lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Zanele Muholi Artist Talk Highlights – LOOK3 2015
Zanele Muholi, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discusses her photographic work with interviewer Chris Boot at the Paramount Theater. Muholi has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of "corrective rape", assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. Interviewer Chris Boot is the Executive Director of Aperture Foundation.
Walter Iooss Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
An extended version of Walter Iooss, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discussing his career photographic some of the worlds best known athletes and models at the Paramount Theater in Downtown Charlottesville. Iooss is interviewed by Steve Fine, the Photo Editor at Flipboard, where he contributes curatorial direction for The Shot.
Steve Fine, Sports Illustrated magazine’s director of photography, refers to Walter Iooss as the foremost sports photographer of his generation and a "fixture in American journalism."
Iooss' work is characterized by a dynamic perspective and a notable reverence for light. From his multi-year project on Olympic athletes up to and during the 1984 games to his iconic portraiture of athletes such as Michael Jordan to his 300-plus covers for Sports Illustrated, Iooss’ work is renowned worldwide. His celebrated publications include Hoops: Four Decades of the Pro Game (2005), Classic Baseball: The Photographs of Walter Iooss, Jr. (2003), Walter Iooss: A Lifetime Shooting Sports & Beauty (1999).
Walter’s passion recalls the words of his gifted predecessor, Henri Cartier-Bresson: "To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality…it is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis."
"The real joy of photography is in these moments," says Iooss. "I’m always looking for freedom, the search for the one-on-one. That’s when your instincts come out. I’ve been lucky enough to have people hire me to do that...It’s the discovery. It’s still magic."
A Reading with Sally Mann – Hold Still – LOOK3 2015
Sally Mann, a 2007 LOOK3 Featured Artist, returns in 2015 to LOOK3 to read from her memoir Hold Still at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall.
"The best quality of Hold Still—a book that strikes me as an instant classic among Southern memoirs of the last 50 years—is its ambient sense of an original, come-as-you-are life that has been well lived and well observed. It’s a book that dials open the aperture on your own senses. Like the photographs she most admires, it is rooted in particulars yet has 'some rudiment of the eternal in it.'"
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Sally Mann has been involved with the LOOK3 Festival since 2007, when she was a featured artist. She joined forces with LOOK3 again in 2011 to interview Nan Goldin. She returns to share her new memoir Hold Still with us this year.
Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of New York City among many others.
Sally has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her many books include Second Sight (1983), At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family(1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), Proud Flesh(2009), and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010).
Piotr Naskreki Artist Talk Highlights – LOOK3 2015
Piotr Naskrecki, 2015 LOOK3 TREES Artist, discussing the importance of even the smallest organisms at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Naskrecki is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
LOOK3 is delighted to welcome Piotr Naskrecki as the 2015 TREES Artist. Piotr is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Piotr's field research on insects has taken him to six continents, where he strives to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation of invertebrates and other “non-charismatic” animals. Through photography, he aspires to capture both their beauty and their roles as critically important members of the Earth’s ecosystems. He is one of the founding members of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and his work been published in The Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History, National Wildlife, National Geographic, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. His books illustrate the multitude of threats faced by invertebrate animals (The Smaller Majority), explore ancient organisms and ecosystems of the globe (Relics), and his most recent title with E.O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity, documents the efforts to restore the diverse ecosystems of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Piotr’s photography has been exhibited in American Museum of Natural History, New York; The Natural Museum, London; Harvard Museum of Natural History; and Aquamarine Fukushima (Japan).
Piotr received his PhD in Entomology at the University of Connecticut. He currently directs the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique where he trains Mozambican biologists and conservationists, and helps rebuild the park, which suffered during the recent civil war.
Piotr Naskrecki Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
An extended version of Piotr Naskrecki, 2015 LOOK3 TREES Artist, discussing the importance of even the smallest organisms at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Naskrecki is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
LOOK3 is delighted to welcome Piotr Naskrecki as the 2015 TREES Artist. Piotr is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Piotr's field research on insects has taken him to six continents, where he strives to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation of invertebrates and other “non-charismatic” animals. Through photography, he aspires to capture both their beauty and their roles as critically important members of the Earth’s ecosystems. He is one of the founding members of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and his work been published in The Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History, National Wildlife, National Geographic, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. His books illustrate the multitude of threats faced by invertebrate animals (The Smaller Majority), explore ancient organisms and ecosystems of the globe (Relics), and his most recent title with E.O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity, documents the efforts to restore the diverse ecosystems of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Piotr’s photography has been exhibited in American Museum of Natural History, New York; The Natural Museum, London; Harvard Museum of Natural History; and Aquamarine Fukushima (Japan).
Piotr received his PhD in Entomology at the University of Connecticut. He currently directs the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique where he trains Mozambican biologists and conservationists, and helps rebuild the park, which suffered during the recent civil war.
Monica Haller Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
An extended version of Monica Haller, 2015 LOOK3 Artist, discussing her work exploring violent and non-violent activities in human and environmental systems at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. Recent projects include Rile and his story and the Veterans Book Project, both focused on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Monica Haller works with photography, design, sound, installation, and writing. Her work explores violent and non-violent activities in human and environmental systems. Recent projects include Riley and his story and the Veterans Book Project, both focused on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Monica’s current research and work involves soil, geologic time, industry, wetlands, and lives of coastal Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta.
Monica has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, she exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nomas Foundation Rome, Italy and the 01SJ San Jose Biennial. She has a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies and a MFA in Visual Studies.
The Veterans Book Project, which will be presented at LOOK3, is a library of books authored collaboratively by Monica and dozens of people who have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the printed format, the books provide a place or “container” that slows down and materializes the great quantity of ephemeral image files that live on veterans’ hard drives and in their heads. Each book re-deploys volatile images with the aim of rearticulating and refashioning memories, standing both independently of and in concert with the larger collection.
Larry Fink Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
An extended version of 2015 LOOK3 Artist Larry Fink discussing his career as a professional photographer spanning 55 years at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall. Fink is interviewed by Donald Antrim who teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.
Larry Fink's career as a professional photographer spans 55 years. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. Recently, Larry had a solo show at Box Gallerie in Bruxelles, Belgium and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrospectives include those mounted at the Sheldon Art Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, the Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, and Body and Soul, which toured Spain in 2012 and is scheduled in forthcoming venues. Larry has been awarded two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowships. Teaching for over 52 years, Larry has been a professor of photography at Bard College since 1988.
Publications include Social Graces (Aperture 1984); Boxing (powerHouse Books 1997); Runway (powerHouse Books 2000); Primal Elegance (Lodima Press 2006); Somewhere There’s Music (Damiani Editore 2006), Attraction and Desire: 50 Years in Photography (The Sheldon Art Galleries 2011), The Vanities: Hollywood Parties 2000–2009 (Schirmer/Mosel 2011), and most recently, The Beats (powerHouse, 2014) and Larry Fink: On Composition and Improvisation (Aperture, 2014). Work from The Beats will be shown at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Noorderlicht in the Netherlands, Fotografia in Rome, Paris Photo, and Feroz Gallery in Bonn, Germany.
With work previously appearing in Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Detour, and The New York Times Magazine. Larry now occasionally publishes portfolios with The New Yorker.
David Alan Harvey Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
2015 LOOK3 Artist David Alan Harvey discusses his many projects during his photographic career including the books "Cuba" (National Geographic; 1999) and "Divided Soul" (Phaidon Press, 2003), and the unseen project from 1967, "Tell It Like It Is". Harvey is interviewed by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine.
David Alan Harvey's photographs spark the human psyche. His books Cuba (National Geographic; 1999) and Divided Soul (Phaidon Press, 2003) capture the effects of the blood and sweat of a cultural migration to the Americas. Living Proof (powerHouse Books, 2007) explores hip-hop culture. His 2012 award-winning book (Based on a True Story) published by BurnBooks and in collaboration with his son, Bryan Harvey, broke new ground in photo book narrative form and design.
His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Biblioteque Nacional, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts among other venues. Some of his most prolific essays have appeared in National Geographic magazine since 1973.
As a popular mentor for young photographers, David founded Burn Magazine, an award-winning online and in print journal for emerging photographers. He is currently the publisher of BurnBooks, a press specializing in limited edition art books. David is a member of the legendary Magnum Photos cooperative and lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. David Alan Harvey was a LOOK3 presenter in 2008.
No Filter: LOOK3 is thrilled to present an expansive exhibition of David Alan Harvey's photographs titled No Filter and featuring unseen work from his 1967 project, "Tell It Like It Is," his recent documentation of the Haenyeo in South Korea, and select photographs from his work in Brazil.
Andrea Douglas Artist Talk – LOOK3 2015
The extended version of Andrea Douglas, Executive Director for the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents, "The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story" at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at the 2015 LOOK3 Festival.
Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of Charlottesville’s Jefferson School African American Heritage Center will present “The Jefferson School, a Modern American Story” in celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. Just nine months after the end of the Civil War, the Jefferson School opened its doors and continued to operate solely for African Americans in Charlottesville until 1965. For 150 years, the School has been a thriving and constant fixture in the local landscape—and its students, teachers, and supporting community have played a decisive role in the modern history of Charlottesville. Andrea’s compelling presentation celebrates this story through personal narrative and a visual history drawn from the Jefferson School photographic archives.
Andrea Douglas holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, NY. Formerly, she was curator of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the University of Virginia. Andrea’s research considers the cultural and social connections in the biographies of 20th and 21st century artists of the African Diaspora.
Alec Soth Artist Talk Highlights – LOOK3 2015
2015 LOOK3 Artist Alec Soth speaks about his photographic past, present, and future at the Paramount Theater along the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall.
Imbuing the banal with cinematic grandeur, Alec Soth’s work is distinguished by its uncanny insightfulness. Through his compassionate lens, the peripheries of contemporary American culture come to life. LOOK3 is thrilled to present an exhibition of Alec Soth's new work from Songbook. These poignant photographs offer a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and an unfulfilled yearning for community.
Soth’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art Center produced a large survey exhibition of his work titled From Here to There. Alec’s first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then, Alec has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007); Dog Days, Bogotá (2007); The Last Days of W(2008); and Broken Manual (2010). Among numerous awards, Alec received the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) and is a member of Magnum Photos. In 2008, he started the publishing company Little Brown Mushroom.