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IRIS Nights Past Lectures
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The Annenberg Space for Photography offers live programming through the lecture series entitled IRIS NIGHTS. IRIS NIGHTS is a public program offered free of charge, by reservation online on a first come first serve basis. IRIS NIGHTS brings to life the featured exhibit with hour-long lectures by the photographers featured in the Photography Space exhibits, as well as by other notable guest artists and experts. The IRIS NIGHTS programs give attendees unique access to the artists in the intimate setting of the Photography Space.
Please note: Carolyn Cole Lecture Moved to May 28th.
Lecture Series Schedule
| Thu, 04.02.09 | Lecture, Douglas Kirkland's A Fifty Year Love Affair With Photography |
| Thu, 04.16.09 | Lecture, Greg Gorman's A Point Of View |
| Thu, 05.07.09 | Lecture, Catherine Opie |
| Thu, 05.14.09 | Lecture, Julius Shulman and Wim de Wit |
| Thu, 05.21.09 | Lecture, Lauren Greenfield's Youth Culture, Gender, And Media Influence |
| Thu, 06.04.09 | Lecture, Patrick Ecclesine's The Faces Of Sunset Boulevard |
| Thu, 06.11.09 | Lecture, Helen K. Garber's Urban Noir/LA-NY |
| Thu, 06.18.09 | Lecture, Kirk McKoy and Genaro Molina's Perspectives |
Douglas Kirkland
A Fifty Year Love Affair With Photography
Douglas Kirkland has been photographing for over five decades and his passion in the discovery of beauty never wavers. Photography has been his bride, his companion, his lover and his confidante throughout his multifaceted career.
He is best known for his celebrity portraits but the scope of his work is far wider.
"Douglas Kirkland's portraits go far beyond the physical appearance of his subjects and capture the very essence of their being with disarming honesty and sensuality."
He started his career as a staff photographer on Look then Life magazines during the "60s/70s golden age of photojournalism". Through the years his work has covered a wide variety of subjects from portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Robert de Niro, Dr. Stephen Hawking and Angelina Jolie to astronomy work in Chile and fashion photography above the Arctic Circle. He has worked on the sets of over a hundred and forty motion pictures, from "2001", "Out Of Africa", "Temptress Moon" (in Shanghai) "Titanic", "Moulin Rouge" and "Behind Enemy Lines" and "Australia" with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. He has published a number of books among which are "Light Years", "Icons", "Legends" and "Body Stories", "James Cameron’s Titanic", (was on the New York Times best-seller list and sold over a million copies in the United States), "An Evening with Marilyn" "Freeze Frame" and "Coco Chanel, 3 Weeks" in September 2008.
He has lectured all over the globe and his work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. Vanity Fair Italy organized a major retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Triennale in Milan in September 2008.
Lecture by Douglas Kirkland is sponsored by Canon USA, Inc.
Greg shared images from his forty year career as a portrait photographer, showcased his Black and White analogue work in the fields of portraiture and figure studies (nudes). He discussed a recent commercial assignment shot digitally, involving a different approach to portraiture, and how he tackled the assignment. His more recent work involving street photography in South East Asia was discussed along side its role in Greg's upcoming book project, tentatively titled "In Their Youth-Early Portraits" to be published later this summer by Damiani Publishers in Italy.
Catherine Opie first gained international renown in the 1990s for her intimate portraits of close friends in the Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community, which challenge perceptions of male and female identity.
Opie then turned her lens to herself in a series of powerful self-portraits far removed from the self-flattery usually associated with self-reflection. And she expanded her exploration of identity to include architecture and freeways, the distinctive visual elements that shape the individuality of various cities across the United States - gated homes and strip centers (Los Angeles), ice houses (Minneapolis), steel mills (Pittsburgh) - creating photographs of exquisite formal beauty in which a human presence is emphatically implied though physically absent.
For this lecture, the artist talked about the past twenty years of her work, which was on recent exhibition for her mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Juergen Nogai and Wim de Wit:
A Conversation about Julius Shulman
Lauren Greenfield
Youth Culture, Gender, and Media Influence
Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN. At the Annenberg Center for Photography, Greenfield will lecture about these long-term, multi-platform projects and how they developed and evolved creatively and professionally. Greenfield delved into the sociological aspect of her photography, and the media's influence on the behavior of children, teenagers and adults.
Her first feature-length film THIN, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. Nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Direction, Greenfield will discuss her progression into video and how she currently works across multiple platforms (books, films, fine art, and internet) for creative impact and educational reach. Her new film kids + money won the Short Audience Award at AFI Fest, the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary, a Gold Hugo Television Award, and the Cinema Eye Honor for Non-fiction Filmmaking. It also screened at Sundance and broadcast on HBO.
Greenfield was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today. Her photographs have been widely published and exhibited and are in many museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the International Center of Photography. She lives in Venice, California with her husband, Frank Evers (founder of the New York Photo Festival) and their two sons.
Lecture by Lauren Greenfield is sponsored by Canon USA, Inc.
Patrick Ecclesine
Where Dreams and Reality Collide
Patrick Ecclesine is a 33-year-old commercial photographer who shoots publicity and advertising campaigns for clients like DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Fox, Turner, CW, CNN, Lifetme, and Sony.
Patrick spent the last five years photographing and interviewing all walks of life along Sunset Boulevard -- “The Boulevard of Dreams” -- for Faces Of Sunset Boulevard, A Portrait Of Los Angeles, which was named the top photography book of 2008 by Shutterbug Magazine. Described as a “leap forward in social documentary photography” and “as compelling as any novel,” Faces Of Sunset Boulevard made popular top 20 book lists like the NY Post, as well as several acclaimed non-fiction lists that had never before included a photography book on their roster. This collection had solo exhibits at Los Angeles City Hall, The ArcLight Hollywood, and the Rathaus in Berlin, Germany.
For this lecture Patrick discussed his process, his imagery, and how he persuaded Police Chief Bratton, Governor Schwarzenegger, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and others to pose for him.
Helen K. Garber
Urban Noir/ LA-NY
Helen K. Garber presented her project: Urban Noir/ LA-NY - a series inspired by the visual elements of film noir, the language of pulp fiction and the rhythm of bebop jazz. It is meant to motivate appreciation of the urban landscape as well as promote historic preservation. As an extra special treat, accomplished television and film composer John Beasley accompanied the lecture with a live performance his original score of Urban Noir.
Helen K. Garber is known for her nighttime urban landscapes taken in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Paris. Her work, including images from the Urban Noir series, is exhibited internationally in the permanent collection of museums including the George Eastman House, International Museum of Film and Photography, Rochester, NY, the Brooklyn Museum, NY, the Museum of the City of New York, NY and the Portland Art Museum, WA.
She lives with her husband, Dr. Stuart H. Garber in Santa Monica, CA and maintains a studio at Venice Beach, CA
Kirk McKoy & Genaro Molina
Perspectives
Los Angeles Times photographers Kirk McCoy and Genaro Molina
gave viewers a front row seat to Los Angeles, and talked about how they cover the community for the newspaper.
Kirk D. McKoy is the Senior Features Photo Editor and Deputy for the Los Angeles Times. He has been a photojournalist for over 28 years, and is a two time Pulitzer Prize winner, for his work covering the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the Northridge earthquake in 1994. His current responsibilities are the day to
day photographic look and concepts for feature and news photos and design of the Los Angeles Times.
Genaro Molina was born in San Francisco in 1960. His career as a photojournalist included working for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Claremont Courier and the Sacramento Bee, before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1995. He has won numerous awards, including the California Photographer of the Year, the Clarion Award and the Harry Chapin Media Award. His ongoing goal is to continue working on stories of human interest that celebrate the diversity of Los Angeles, and the city in transition.
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