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May 2020
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…
Find out more »September 2020
Location: HCP 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…
Find out more »January 2021
May 2021
Location: HCCC’s Facebook Live
Virtual Resident Artist Talks:
Join Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Houston Center for Photography live on Facebook for a joint virtual talk by current resident artists, Hillerbrand+Magsamen. The Houston-based artists are the recipients of the inaugural Interdisciplinary Craft + Photography Artist Residency, offered by HCCC and Houston Center for Photography. The three-month residency was created in response to the growing number of artists who are working at the intersection of contemporary craft and photography, supporting those with an experimental, multidisciplinary edge, who are testing…
DetailsHCP Annual Membership Meeting
Dear HCP Member, Thank you for your support of the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) during this very challenging year. Our shared experiences of the past 18 months have demonstrated the power of interpersonal connection in any form, and we are proud to have been able to continue to provide so many of you with means of forging new and maintaining old connections through HCP. Creating community through our membership program is central to HCP's mission. As a member of…
Find out more »June 2021
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T.V. to See the Sky, Inspired by Yoko Ono’s work, SKY T.V.
T.V. to See the Sky Inspired by Yoko Ono’s work, SKY T.V. June 21, 2021, beginning at sunrise 5:42AM Pacific Standard Time and continuing for 24 hours This event is inspired by Yoko Ono’s second conceptualization of SKY T.V. in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery, which she described as “a T.V. just to see the sky. Different channels for different skies, high-up sky, low sky, etc." SKY T.V. 1966 (furniture piece) was a video sculpture described by Ono as “a…
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Location: HCP Online
Words And Pictures Lecture Series: In Conversation: Briana Vargas (2020 Carol Crow Fellow) and Mauricio Palos (documentarist and cultural promoter, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
What does it mean to make photographic work about and in a community? What are the ethics of telling others’ stories? How can these stories transcend regional and national borders, and connect disparate communities? Finally, what can pictures do, and what are their limitations? Join HCP’s 2020 Carol Crow Memorial Fellow, Briana Vargas, and Mauricio Palos, award-winning documentalist and cultural promoter, as they discuss these questions around Centro Cultural Tenexcalco, where Vargas realized her fellowship body of work, Dicen. Founded…
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Words and Pictures: In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick and Dorota Biczel
MOVEMENT STUDY III: CIRCLING A HAWK by Elizabeth Bick In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick (2020 HCP Fellow) and Dorota Biczel (ED and Curator, HCP) How can photography be intermediatic? What even are the intermedia? How does an intermediatic approach alter customary expectations of distance and intimacy in photography? Artist Elizabeth Bick and HCP’s Executive Director and Curator, Dorota Biczel, discuss Bick’s practice informed by her training in modern dance. At the core of Bick’s work are relationships between architecture, urban fabric,…
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