PhotoNow!! A Photography Symposium
Saturday, February 18, 2006
1-7pm
Free and open to the public
1-1:15pm
Introduction and Welcome (JMOMA Theatre)
George Kinghorn, Director,
JMOMA PHOTOBLAST is a celebration of photography at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. Over four months, JMOMA has dedicated the majority of its gallery space to feature diverse perspectives on photography. The decision to focus solely on photography was two-fold-- photography is an extremely popular art form, and with cameras so readily available, it's a medium that's accessible to almost anyone.
PHOTOBLAST's featured show, Sheltering Eye: Selections from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photography Collection, represents one of the most significant photography collections in the country, featuring works by Diane Arbus, Hans Bellmer, Henri Carter-Bresson, Walker Evans, André Kertész, William Klein, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Irving Penn and Alfred Stieglitz. Other exhibitions featured in the PHOTOBLAST line-up are Cheerleaders, Bodybuilders & Disco Queens: Photographs by Brian Finke & Morten Nilsson, a compelling exploration of two distinct styles of documentary photography focusing on individuals in performance-driven sports, and Artifacts: Photographs by David Halliday, an innovative take on the traditional still life.
As part of PHOTOBLAST's educational component, JMOMA hosts PhotoNow: A Photography Symposium with workshops and lectures by artists, curators, and historians. A lecture and book signing with artist Jerry Uelsmann will complete this celebration. Also featured is a community-based black-and-white photography project that allows visitors of all ages to incorporate their works into a larger photo installation.
PhotoNow: A Photography Symposium—SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
1:15-2:15pm
Collecting: The Aura of the Photograph (JMOMA Theatre)
Thomas Southall, Curator of Photography, Samuel F. Harn Museum of Art, UF, Gainesville
Thomas Southall will discuss challenges, contradictions, and connoisseurship in collecting photographs as explored in the Aura of the Photograph exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art and the Paul Sack Collection at JMOMA. Appointed Curator of Photography at the Harn Museum of Art in the fall of 2004, Southall has also served as curator of photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas; andSpencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Exhibitions he has organized include Chorus of Light: Photographs the Sir Elton John Collection (High, 2000), Walker Evans and William Christenberry from: Of Time and Place
(Amon Carter, 1990), and Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (Spencer, 1984). His most recent exhibition, Aura of the Photograph, features historical daguerreotypes to contemporary electronic imagery selected from the Harn
and numerous Florida collections. The exhibition will be presented at the Harn in Gainesville from March 7, through May 28, 2006.
2:30-3:30pm
Gallery Talk: A Modernist Impulse (3rd floor)
Paul Karabinis, Gallery Director and Photo Historian, University of North Florida
Karabinis discusses the rich and varied nature of 20th century photographic practice in relation to works from Sheltering Eye: Selections from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photography Collection.
Paul Karabinis is Director of the University Gallery and teaches photography and history of photography at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. He has curated numerous exhibitions and authored several catalogs including: Gathering Light: Photographs from the Collection of Joe and Jennifer Duke, University of North Florida (2001); Telling Stories: Contemporary Tableau Photography, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art (1996); and History/Mystery: The Photographs of Jerry N. Uelsmann 1957-1993, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida (1993). Most recently, Karabinis wrote the introduction to Jerry Uelsmann: Other Realities, and catalog essay and commentaries for Sheltering Eye: Selections from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photography Collection.
3:45-4:30pm
Gallery Talk, Cheerleaders and Body Builders (North Gallery, 2nd floor)
Brian Finke, Photographer
Book Signing following Jerry Uelsmann’s lecture
Brian Finke has captured flight attendants, frat boys, cheerleaders, and body builders in his raw, documentary style. Finke spent two years along the sidelines of high school football games, documenting football culture. Along with the players, Finke turned his camera to the cheerleaders who hollered, jumped, stretched and clapped, rooting their teams on regardless of the outcome. The artist weaves these images into a story about one of America's continuing dramas played out in small towns and urban cities across the country. Similarly, Finke photographed the artificiality and extremity of bodybuilding in his series, Most Muscular.
3:45-4:30pm
Gallery Talk, I Remember Them Well: A Personal Account of Photographers from Sheltering Eye: Selections from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photography Collection (3rd floor)
Judith Gefter, Freelance Photojournalist
Judith Gefter’s odyssey with film began at the end of WWII as an artist-illustrator in the propaganda agency--the Office of War Information. Gefter‘s work regularly appeared in LIFE, PEOPLE, TIME, and FORTUNE. She traveled extensively for many other publications, including MONEY, ELLE, STERN, NEWSWEEK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ART DIRECTION, ARCHITECTURE, ZEIT, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, and THE NEW YORK TIMES. Her lenses frequently photographed Presidents, Prime Ministers, Politicians, Actors, and the general population.
4:30-5:00pm BREAK
5:15-6pm
Other Realities (JMOMA Theatre)
Jerry Uelsmann, Photographer
Book Signing following the lecture
Jerry Uelsmann has explored of the boundaries of the photographic medium for over 30 years. He has experimented with complex multiple prints, negative imagery, and other techniques in elaborating a personal mythology the elements of which include nudes, floating trees, clouds, reflections in bodies of water, details of plants; his work emphasizes the ambiguities of space and scale. He has been a prominent spokesman for "post-visualization" that is, "the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process."
Jerry Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 shows throughout the US and abroad over the past thirty years and is represented in museum collections throughout the world. He began teaching at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960, retired from the University, and still resides there.
PLEASE NOTE: 115 seat limit. Contact Tuesday Pierson at 366.6911 x 208 or via email at tpierson@jmoma.org to reserve your seat.
6-7pm
Reception and Book Signing (Lobby and Atrium)
Mingle with speakers and fellow photography enthusiasts while Jerry Uelsmann and Brian Finke sign copies of their newest publications.
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RELATED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY PROGRAMMING
1-5pm
Photo Hunt: Guide to PHOTOBLAST-- Pick up your guide at the front desk.
Visitors of all ages can learn more about photography and modern art by completing this unique exhibition guide.
1-7pm
Picturing Jacksonville: Capturing the Faces and Places of our Community
Public Photography Installation in Atrium
Bring a 5 x 7’’ color OR black/white photograph of people and/or places in Jacksonville
to JMOMA to exhibit during the symposium. Photos will not be returned. All ages welcome to submit. Mail entries to JMOMA/Community Art Project, 333 North Laura Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202 or bring your photograph before 2pm to the symposium to add to the exhibit. For more information, contact Allison Graff at 366.6911 x 204 or via email at agraff@jmoma.org.
2-4pm
Community Photography Workshop—(5th floor)
All ages welcome, no experience needed. Learn the basics of photography using a black and white disposable camera.
2-5pm
Photography Portfolio Reviews—(Atrium) Register the day of the event at the Front Desk
Area artists and arts faculty will review portfolios and offer feedback to photographers of all levels
3-4pm
Guided Family Tour of Photography Exhibitions (Meet at the front desk at 3pm.)
Join a museum educator for an interactive conversation about the works in the PhotoBlast exhibitions.
Troy Spurlin
Manager - Marketing and Partnerships
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art
333 North Laura Street
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
904.366.6911 x210
tspurlin@jmoma.org
