lectures & seminars

Rick Wester

Seminar: Friday, October 6th, 10am

Director of Photographs at Phillips de Pury & Company, has 25 years of experience in the field of selling, buying, exhibiting and promoting fine art photography. This includes nine years as the International Director of Photographs at Christie’s. During his tenure, Christie’s became the first photography department to sell over ten million dollars in photography per year, expanding the department to four sales venues from Los Angeles to London and holding dozens of record prices for the medium’s most important artists. With this success, he joined the Gagosian Gallery and then as a private dealer, consultant and director of the world-renowned photography gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

Stephen Perloff

Seminar: Saturday, October 7th, 10am

The founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He is also the editor of the annual series of books The Photographic Art Market: Auction Prices.

David Levinthal

Lecture: Sunday, October 8th, 1:30pm

Born in San Francisco in 1949, has been working with toy figures and tableaux as the subject matter for his artwork since 1972. He is the photographer and co-author, with Garry Trudeau, of Hitler Moves East, which was originally published in 1977.  In January of 1997, the International Center of Photography presented a survey of his work from 1975 to 1996. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and was named a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow. His work is included in numerous museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, and The Menil Collection.

Alex Webb

Lecture: Sunday, October 8th, 3pm

Alex Webb‘s photojournalist work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Life, Geo, Stern, and National Geographic. He joined the Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1976.

During the mid-1970's, Webb photographed in the US south, documenting small town life in black and white and has published five books: Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds (1986), Under A Grudging Sun (1989), From the Sunshine State (1996), Amazon: From the Floodplains to the Clouds(1997), and Crossings (2003). His book Istanbul: City of 100 Names, is scheduled to be published in 2007.

Webb received numerous awards including a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in 1986, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant in 1998. His photographs have been the subject of articles in Art in America and Modern Photography. He has exhibited in the United States and Europeand museum exhibits include the Walker Art Center, the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.