The Artist as Researcher: Exploring The New York Public Library’s Art Collections
Location: New York Public Library | 476 5th Ave, New York, NYC
We are partnering with The New York Public Library on a series of rare opportunities to explore the institution's remarkable collection of visual art resources alongside knowledgeable librarians and curators. There will be four free in-depth workshops that will focus on specific collections in the Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs.
Workshops will be held on Saturdays. Coffee and light bites will be offered at 10:30 AM before each workshop, with each program beginning promptly at 11:00AM. Invitations to this series are being extended to the artist communities of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program.
Attendance for each workshop is capped at 35 people. Since space is limited, we encourage you to sign up quickly, but also only for the workshops that most interest you and you are certain you are able to attend. Please note if you attended the last session, this iteration will mostly be interesting to you if you wish to experience that collection again. The Prints and Photography Study Room format is the same, but of course, has limitless possibilities.
For questions about this series with the NYPL, please contact:
Paige Laino
Alumni & Archives Manager
plaino@skowheganart.org
All inquiries are confidential.
THE ARTIST AS RESEARCHER #3:
Japanese Photographs, Photobooks & Artists’ Books
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
10:30AM coffee and pastries, Room 215
11:00AM-12:00PM The Prints and Photography Study Room, Room 308
The history of Japanese photography is as long and rich as the medium itself, and offers the opportunity to study technical innovation and avant-garde theory alongside issues of memory, gender, and national and personal identity. The format of the photobook in Japan is especially important as a vehicle for experimental design, for collaborative expression, and for new ideas about the relationship between viewer and image. The NYPL Photography Collection contains a world-class holdings of Japanese photography, allowing for a deep, sustained survey of some of the most important and influential Japanese photobooks from the 20th century.
Join art librarian Chantal Lee and Assistant Curator of Photography Maggie Mustard as we study Japanese photography and photobooks from the 1930s to the present moment, including Horino Masao’s Kamera : me x tetsu, kosei (Camera, Eye x Steel, Construction) (1931), Ishimoto Yasuhiro’s Katsura (1960), Kawada Kikuji’s Chizu (The Map) (1965), the avant-garde photo-magazine PROVOKE (1968-69), Araki Nobuyoshi’s Sentimental Journey (1971), and work by Domon Ken, Ishiuchi Miyako, Kanemura Osamu, and Okabe Momo, among others.
Osamu Kanemura, Radical Hybrid, 2019. Photo taken by Christian Erroi.
