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March 2020
Location: Houston Center for Photography
Lecture and Book Signing: Mike Osborne’s Federal Triangle
Thursday, March 26, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a lecture and book signing with Austin-based photographer, Mike Osborne, discussing his recent body of work, Federal Triangle. Titled after a government complex wedged between the Capitol and the White House, Osborne's work depicts Washington DC as a kind of bureaucratic Bermuda Triangle—an impenetrable place of mystery, danger, and disorientation. The project grew out of the day-to-day experience of living in DC over a period of…
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Virtual Opening Reception: Views from Levy Park
© Shunney Nair In partnership with Levy Park Conservancy, Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a virtual opening reception for our virtual exhibition, Views from Levy Park. As a culmination of the Levy Park Photography Workshop, our yearlong community education program, this exhibition will include photographic works by artists who participated in our monthly workshops offered free to the community from May 2019 – April 2020. Representing a vast range of styles, all photographs were created at Levy Park under…
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Words & Pictures Lecture Series: Dr. Tanisha Ford
Dr. Tanisha Ford In conjunction with the exhibition, Tools of Revolution: Fashion Photography and Activism, Houston Center for Photography presents a lecture by Dr. Tanisha C. Ford on the under-recognized photographic work of Harlem-based, Civil Rights activist and photographer, Kwame Brathwaite. Having written extensively about Brathwaite's work in Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019), Dr. Ford's expertise on the artist combined with her scholarship on fashion and activism will offer our Houston community unique insight into the powerful intertwining…
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Houston Center for Photography’s Words & Pictures Lecture Series is excited to bring together Sasha Wolf, independent curator and lecturer, and Malcolm Daniel, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in a virtual conversation on the topic of her recently-published book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Across forty Q&A-style interviews, Wolf poses the same set of questions about photographic approach to forty leading photographers working in the field today, including Alejandro…
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Location: Online
Words & Pictures Presents:
Words & Pictures is pleased to present a virtual discussion between artist, Arden Surdam, and gallerist Kendra Jayne Patrick on the topic of her new monograph, Glut. Glut is Surdam’s first publication with Small Editions featuring exhibited and never-before-seen photographs from 2018-2020. The monograph extends the artist’s visual analysis and research on taste, specifically taste-based hierarchies arising from 18th and 19th century European still life painting. Expanding on French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s writing on cultural capital, variants of dominant taste,…
DetailsOctober 2020
Words & Pictures Presents:
Words & Pictures is pleased to present an online panel discussion in conjunction with our fall exhibition, Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph. This event will dive into the enduring magic and lure of vernacular photography – the ordinary, everyday snapshots that we make, keep, collect, store, and cherish. Moderated by Mexico and Texas-based artist, vernacular collector, and author Barbara Levine, the panel will share personal stories and insights, engaging in conversation about photographic objects as social…
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