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PWP Monthly Meetings
PWP sponsors monthly meetings on topics of interest to members. Throughout the year meetings will be listed on this page as they are announced.
All monthly meetings are on the first Thursday of every month from 6:15pm to 9pm in Pratt Institute’s 2nd floor conference room, 144 West 14th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues) NY, NY. Meetings are free to members and open to the public with a fee of $10 at the door. Doors open at 6:15 pm, meetings start at 6:30.
Upcoming Meetings
January 3, 2008Jane Schreibman
Jane Schreibman will be showing her photographs from the Indian subcontinent, beginning with a ritual she stumbled upon at an ancient Necropolis in Karachi that led her on a search, with the help of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council, through India and Pakistan, visiting the cenotaphs of ancient, and not so ancient, holy men. Along the way, among other adventures, she spent time at a lime quarry in the Rajasthani desert, and combed the beaches of Bombay for the remains of Goddesses, washed ashore.
February - To be held on January 31, 2008Lois Greenfield
Lois Greenfield, photographer of dance who without tricks or manipulation of any kind, Lois Greenfield captures the improbable, fleeting movements of bodies in motion. She began her career as a photojournalist but was drawn to the graphic potential of dance. Lois has created signature images for most of the major contemporary dance companies and her compositions have influenced a whole generation of photographers. Many of these Images can be seen in virtually every major magazine, as well as in her 2 monographs, Breaking Bounds and Airborne (Chronicle Books). Her work is exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and commercial clients have picked up on the metaphoric potential of her images to create campaigns around her unique work.
Lois will present an overview of her 30 year career, offering a behind the scenes look into how she creates her seemingly impossible images .She discusses the visual themes that continue to fascinate her. Using contact sheets as part of her image presentation she shows how she blends improvised movement with specific conceptual ideas, and illustrates the importance and subjectivity of "timing." She discusses the synergistic relationship between her art and commercial work, and gives a preview of her newest book.
March 6, 2008Shelley Rice
Shelley Rice will be giving a lively lecture about critical women photographers and their pursuits throughout history, among them: Georgiana Berkeley, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lady Hawarden, Gertrude Kasebier, Francis Benjamin Johnston, Doris Ullmann, Tina Modotti, Dorothea Lange, Gerda Taro, Margaret Bourke-White, Claude Cahun, Hannah Hoch, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Shelley will touch on topics such as how these women felt about their medium, how they defined "art," and how they related to other, and more established visual traditions.
Shelley Rice, a recipient of fellowships, grants, and endowments throughout the world, is a renowned photography art historian, author, curator, and arts critic. Shelley recently was co-curator of the Avon Products, Inc. Collection of Contemporary Women’s Photography, shown at the International Center of Photography 1997 in an exhibition entitled The Eye of the Beholder. Rice is Associate Arts Professor in both the Photography and Imaging and the Art History Departments of New York University. Shelley is the author Parisian Views and was curator of recent exhibition, Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman at NYU”s Grey Art Gallery. Shelley Rice has written articles regularly for Art Journal, Art in America, The Village Voice, Ms. Magazine, and Aperture.
May 1, 2008Joan Harrison
Joan Harrison will speak about three recent and very different projects that grew out of her photographic obsessions with portraiture and vernacular landscape photography. In 2007 ISLAND to ISLAND: INSPIRED PORTRAITS, an exhibition she curated, brought her photographs and that of seven other women photographers to Dimbola Lodge, museum and home of Julia Margaret Cameron on the Isle of Wight. Ms. Harrison began her career as an art photographer working with vintage photographic processes. She now works mainly in the realm of the documentary using digital technology, having found reality can be every bit as magical as the imagination. Harrison is a Professor of Art at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Her work has been widely exhibited and published. In 2008 Arcadia Press will publish a book of historical photographs of Glen Cove, New York Cove that she researched and wrote. For more information, visit www.JoanHarrison.com
June 5, 2008Annual Membership Meeting and Show and Tell
Show and Tell is the opportunity for all members to share their photographic vision. Each member may bring eight slides to display to the membership. It is a great way for new members to introduce themselves to everyone.
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September 4, 2008
Joan Powers
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October 2, 2008TBA
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November 6, 2008TBA
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Past Monthly Meetings
2007-08
Thu. 5/1/2008 Joan Harrison
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Thu. 3/6/2008 Shelley Rice
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Thu. 1/31/2008 Lois Greenfield
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Thu. 1/3/2008 Jane Schreibman, photographs from the Indian subcontinent
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Thu. 12/6/2007 Show and Tell
Thu. 11/1/2007 Jill Lynne’s photography delves into the surreal world of fantasy while making strong statements about women’s roles, the environment, and other socio-political issues.
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Thu. 10/4/2007 Meryl Meisler, “Bushwick Revisited, 1977-2007”
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Thu. 9/6/2007 Sara Cedar Miller, landscape-nature photographer and historian
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2006-07
Thu. 6/7/2007 Annual Membership Meeting
Thu. 5/3/2007 Dulce Pinzón, Multiracial Portrait Subjects
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Thu. 4/5/2007 Deborah Allen: Birds around Town
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Thu. 3/1/2007 Pioneer Women in Photography
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Thu. 2/1/2007 Kathy Willens, Sports Photographer
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Thu. 1/4/2007 Robin Holland, Portrait Photographer
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Thu. 12/7/2006 Show and Tell
Thu. 11/2/2006 Sarina Finkelstein, Documentary Photographer
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Thu. 10/12/2006 Maria Ferrari, Still Life Photographer
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Thu. 9/7/2006 Ann Marie Rousseau, Photography and Painting
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2005-06
Thu. 6/1/2006 Annual Membership Meeting and Show and Tell
Thu. 5/4/2006 Cali Gorevic, Fine Art Photographer
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Thu. 4/6/2006 Stella Johnson, Documentary Photographer
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Thu. 3/2/2006 Amanda Jones, Pet Photographer
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Thu. 2/2/2006 Marjorie Ryerson, Water Music
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Thu. 1/5/2006 Jill Freedman, Ireland Ever
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Thu. 12/1/2005 Show and Tell
Thu. 11/3/2005 Staci Schwartz, The Village Voice
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Thu. 10/20/2005 New Members’ Reception