Opening Reception – Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
Thu, 10/10 · 5:00 pm—Fri, 10/11 · 6:30 pm · Lewis Arts complex
Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council; Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics; Council on Science and Technology
A two-day symposium and concurrent photographic exhibition in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Hurley Gallery that will gather photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of photography, its instability, and its latent potential.
Organized by Deana Lawson, Princeton University’s Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Jeff Whetstone, Director of the Program in Visual Arts, and James Welling, Lecturer with the Rank of Professor of Visual Arts. Produced by Mary K. O’Connor with Joe Arnold as gallery preparator for both exhibitions.
Symposium runs October 10 & 11; registration is currently filled.
A conversation on contemporary, photography, “Collaborative Histories,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on October 10 at Richardson Auditorium and is free and open to the public, no tickets required.
Exhibition runs through December 5 in Hurley Gallery and is free and open to the public. Opening reception October 10 at 5-6:30 pm
Companion exhibition of photography by recent alumni in Hurley Gallery runs through October 30 and is free and open to the public.
The symposium is cosponsored by Princeton’s Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics and Council on Science and Technology and is supported in part by a Princeton Humanities Council David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project grant.
The exhibition, co-curated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine, coincides with the Fall 2024 issue of Aperture magazine, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” an issue that refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson and features many of the artists included in Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World.
