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© John Humble
Walkthroughs & Conversations
PAC LA Member-Access Event
Free Admission to Sponsors, $10 for Members
DATE: FRIDAY 2/17 TIME:11:30 AM -12:30 PM
Preview Walkthrough and Conversation with Getty Curator of Photographs, Virginia Heckert
Virginia Heckert is the Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
For the conversation, Virginia will discuss the continually evolving medium of photography. She plans to chat with the exhibitors about how they strive and hope to contribute to the medium. She will also discuss how Photo Forward LA provides a collaborative learning opportunity in concert with this evolution.
© Julian Wasser
PAC LA Member-Access Event
Free Admission to Sponsors, $10 for Members
DATE: FRIDAY 2/17 TIME: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Preview Walkthrough with Curator Regina Mamou
Regina Mamou is a visual artist and lecturer with a specialization in photography and contemporary art. She is currently the first artist-in-residence at The Wende Museum of the Cold War. Regina’s work centers on the desire to understand the diversity of ideological systems and the struggle to create community. Join us for a glimpse inside our photography community through the eyes of this brilliant scholar.
Regina Mamou holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the recipient of a Fulbright to Jordan.
© Allison Rossiter
Public Event
Admission $25
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Walkthrough & Conversation Hosted by CCP Curator of Photographs, Rebecca Senf & Collector Michael Hawley
How do I start my collection? What are our roles as guardians of photography? Where is the photo world headed for the institution and the individual? Important starting-point questions when building a collection. Long-time friends Becky Senf and Michael Hawley, a curator and a collector, bring you inside the conversation they’ve been having for years.
Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. Dr. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, whose most recent book on Ansel Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, was co-published by the CCP and Yale University Press.
Michael Hawley is a writer and photography collector. He is a founding board member of PAC LA and chair of the Getty Museum Photographs Council. His broad and diverse collection has been growing since the early 1990s.
Public Event
Admission $25
DATE: SUNDAY 2/19 TIME: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
A Discussion with Michelle Dunn Marsh of Minor Matters
To Have, Or To Hold? Collecting Photobooks Today
Join Michelle Dunn Marsh to discuss today’s photobook market and the implications of this ocean of print on the collector. Must you own every version of Robert Frank's The Americans? If not, which three matter most? What do you keep and what do you divest of as the shelves fill? Do books hold value? As a collector of photographs, do I need a reference library (that answer is yes, and we'll discuss why).
We will use titles on view from Aperture Foundation and Minor Matters, along with a selection of other books, in a discussion of the proliferation of books today, and the significant role the photobook continues to play in the field.
Michelle Dunn Marsh conceived, and with Steve McIntyre co-founded Minor Matters, a collaborative publishing platform, in 2013. Dunn Marsh led Photographic Center Northwest from 2013–2019, spent fifteen years in various roles with the nonprofit publisher Aperture Foundation, New York; was senior editor of art and design at Chronicle Books in San Francisco; and has worked in a freelance capacity with over twenty publishers and cultural institutions on books or public programming.
© Will Wilson
Book Signings & Talks
Free Public Event
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 1:00 PM
Minor Matters Book Signing:
Between, Everywhere: Rachel Demy (new)
The photographs comprising Between, Everywhere were made over a five-year period touring with Death Cab for Cutie, a band Demy met first as a fan, and eventually joined as family. …MORE
© Rachel Demy
Free Public Event
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 2:00 PM
Shelly Niro Speaking at Andrew Smith Galley
Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Shelley Niro will be speaking about her creative work at 2:00 p.m on Saturday, February 18 at the Andrew Smith Gallery booth. A selection of her photographs will be on view at the booth
Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) Nation. Niro received her MFA from the University of Western Ontario, where her research centered on rediscovery and readdressing of basic myths, legends and history of the Iroquois people, research that resulted in an intensive study of the diaspora of the Mohawk Nation. Niro is known for filmmaking, performance pieces, painting, beadwork, and particularly for her extensive photographic body of work.
© Shelly Niro
Free Public Event
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Bill Owens Book Signing at Scott Nichols Gallery
Scott Nichols Gallery is proud to be hosting photographer Bill Owens for a book signing at their booth on Saturday, February 18, from 2-4pm. Owens’ book, The Legacy of Suburbia: Photographs 1964-2022 is a limited edition release of 100, and it features a special limited print 4th of July Parade.
Other books by Bill Owens will also be available for purchase.
© Bill Owens
Free Public Event
DATE: SATURDAY 2/18 TIME: 4:00 PM
Minor Matters Book Signing:
Crystal Clear: Western Waters: Sant Khalsa (new)
The sixty gelatin-silver photographs of Khalsa's series "Western Waters," made between 2000 and 2002, depict water stores in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and southern Nevada… MORE
© Sant Khalsa
Free Public Event
DATE: SUNDAY 2/19 TIME: 1:00 PM
Minor Matters Book Signing:
White Noise: Jesse Diamond (2019)
Through the high-key light permeating much of his way of seeing, complemented in the extreme by his attention to gestures in the shadows of the night, Diamond fosters a brief connection between the world, himself, and the viewer through each carefully composed frame in his second book, White Noise. With an introduction by Ralph Gibson… MORE
© Jesse Diamond
Free Public Event
DATE: SUNDAY 2/19 TIME: 3:00 PM
Minor Matters Book Signing:
Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography (2021-22)
Seeing Being Seen is a text-based memoir highlighting a contemporary history of photography through the life and professional journey of Minor Matters' co-founder Michelle Dunn Marsh… MORE