Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers/Professor Pics

A daring, collaborative evening between Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and Professor Pics (Selected by Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Professor Ross McClaren).

Berberian Sound Studio by Peter Strickland, 2012, will be screened at 6PM in the film classroom on Thursday, April 18 (in Bluray!).

"A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art."

Bonus feature: Dario Argento's Inferno. Come enjoy the horror...

 

2013 Senior Exhibition Schedule

Introducing the Hayden Hartnett Project Space

Image from the 2010-2011 Hayden Hartnett Portfolio
Printed by Apollonia Colacicco, 2011

 

Fordham University is proud to introduce a new exhibition venue at its Lincoln Center Campus: the Hayden Hartnett Project Space. The space presents yearlong exhibitions of work produced by students from the Department of Theatre and Visual Art.

The location of the Hayden Hartnett Project Space in the Office of Undergraduate Admission in Fordham's Lincoln Center both showcases student work for an extended period of time, as well as introduces prospective students and their parents to the high caliber of visual work produced at Fordham University. The Hayden Hartnett Project Space is inside the Office of Undergraduate Admission on the second floor of the Leon Lowenstein building and is open during Fordham University operating hours from 9 to 5.

Please visit our website: haydenhartnettprojectspace.com to see our current, past, and upcoming exhibitions in the space, as well as to see the 2010 Hayden Hartnett black & white portfolio from her participation in the Documentary Photography: Japan course offered by the Visual Arts Department. Our mailing list signup form is located on the site; so one can stay informed of what is showing in the Hayden Hartnett Project Space, as well as in our two additional university galleries.

For more information, please contact gallery director Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock at <apicellahit@fordham.edu>

Documentary Photography: Italy 2013

This intensive class will introduce you to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy. The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, will serve as the source for our daily photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse.

Our studies and production will take us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Coliseum as we utilize the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

(4 credits) With Professor Joseph Lawton & Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock. VART 3500: Documentary Photography: ITALY program cost: $2,375 + tuition (includes: housing, breakfast, supplementary insurance, and most course activities. Airfare is not included). Program Dates: July 4th to August 1st. For more information please contact: Professor Apicella-Hitchcock (apicellahit@fordham.edu). Application deadline: March 21.

The 2012 Program Book:

R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

The 2011 Program Book:

R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

Faculty Spotlight 2013

Faculty Spotlight 2013
Joseph Lawton, David Storey, Mark Street

The Center Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
December 17, 2012 - February 14, 2013
Reception: February 7, 2013, 6 – 8 PM

An exhibition sampling works from members of the Visual Arts faculty at Fordham University. Please view a selection of works and statements by the artists at the Visual Arts Department's Center & Lipani Gallery website.

The artists:

Joseph Lawton, NY State Fair, 20" x 16", silver gelatin print, 2011
I have selected eight photographs for this year's Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Four from Italy, where I have spent the past three Julys teaching in Rome, and four from the New York State Fair up in Syracuse. Syracuse is my hometown and I have returned each year for the past thirty years to photograph the Fair.

David Storey, "Greeny," 2011, 8"x10"
I have been making paintings centered on the fluidly permeable boundaries of image and abstraction since moving to New York from California thirty years ago.  I brought along a love of picture making, anecdote and color that were key elements of a Bay Area regionalism that shaped my work as a young painter.  Over the subsequent years there has been a gradual movement towards a transcendent clarity of the incidental over the anecdotal in both image and in the paint itself.  I still make abstract ensembles that function as figurative events and simultaneously occupy an equally non-literal yet compelling spatial and chromatic arena.

Mark Street, Wanderlust, 4 monitor video installation, silent, 2012
An update of the concept of the flaneur; with abstract intrusions.  Urban peregrinations recorded in Paris and NYC.

Senior Moments

Senior Moments: Selections from the Senior Seminar
Organized by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Card design: Tim Luecke

The Lipani Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Sub Level Visual Arts Complex
December 13, 2012 - February 1, 2013
Reception: January 30, 6-8

An exhibition sampling works from participants in the 2012 Senior Seminar class. Please view a selection of works and statements by the artists at the Visual Arts Department's Center & Lipani Gallery website.

Participants in the class and exhibition:

Tessa Abrahams, Liz Allocca, Vera Bennett, Apollonia Colacicco, Nicole DeMeo, Amanawil Lemi, Timothy Leuke, Jackie, Martonik, Catherine Murphy, Terrence O'Toole, Patricia, Peguero, Elle Radan, Teresa Salinas, Lucy Sutton, Catherine San Juan

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director’s favorite themes—that of generational conflict—in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and the participants in the 2012-2013 Documentary Photography: Japan course for a screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story.

Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, 1953

Friday, December 7, 2012, 6 PM

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H

For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

The 2011-2012 Documentary Photography: Italy/Japan Exhibition

Curated by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

The Center Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
November 12 - December 14, 2012
Reception November 28, 2012, 6-8 PM

An exhibition sampling photographs from participants in the 2012 Documentary Photography: Italy & the 2011-2012 Documentary Photography: Japan program, as well as a book release for both programs:

The Books:
R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます (Six New York Photographers in Japan), Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Participants in the program and exhibition:

Italy: Tessa Abrahams, Corina Aparicio, Emily Atwood, Massiel Garcia, Cecilia Iliesiu, Jaclyn Krakowski, Donovan Longo, Joseph Mottola, Catherine Murphy, Michael, Raganella, Jacqueline Tozzi, Aubrey Vollrath, Jessica Wendroff, Xuan Zheng

Japan: Kirstie Carrizales, Melanie Chamberlain, Diana Iacono, Katie Mavrovitis, Teresa Salinas, Rebecca Zoltowski

Excerpted Description of Documentary Photography: Italy
The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, served as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production brought us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilized the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

Excerpted Description of Documentary Photography: Japan
The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa. Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

11/13/2012 | 3pm | Lincoln Center

Please join us in McMahon Hall Lounge 109

Limited seating | please contact: abby@abbygoldstein.com

Sponsored by the Visual Arts, African and African American and Women's Studies programs. Supported by a Faculty Mellon Challenge Grant

R (Documentary Photography: Italy 2012 Book Release)

R
By Tessa Abrahams, Corina Aparicio, Emily Atwood, Massiel Garcia, Cecilia Iliesiu, Jacklyn Krakowski, Donovan Longo, Joseph Mottola, Catherine Murphy, Michael, Raganella, Jacqueline Tozzi, Aubrey Vollrath, Jessica Wendroff, Xuan Zheng; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

R is the final culmination of the 2012 course "Documentary Photography: Italy" offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University.

The book is 174 pages, 10x8 inches (25x20 cm), with four-color printing and can be ordered in softcover, or hardback in a range of paper grades. Preview the entire book here.

The course description is as follows:

A sampling of photographs from participants in the Fordham University 2012 Documentary Photography: Italy program. Over the course of one month in Rome this intensive class introduced students to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy.

The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, served as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production brought us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilized the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

“The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I’ll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black lead-in; if they don’t see happiness in the picture, at least they’ll see the black.”

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and the participants in the 2012-2013 Documentary Photography: Japan course for a screening of Chris Marker's 1983 film, Sans Soleil. Documentary? Travelogue? Essay-film? Come see and decide for yourself.

Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, 1983

Friday, October 19, 2012

6 pm until 9 pm

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H

For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Nina Katchadourian Lecture

Image caption: Pretzel Meteor from Seat Assignment, 2010 and ongoing

Nina Katchadourian Lecture

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 6 PM

Fordham University Visual Arts Department

Lincoln Center Campus

113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue

New York, NY 10023

Room SL24H

Join artist and educator Nina Katchadourian for a presentation and discussion of her work, including her most recent project, Seat Assignment. Improvising with materials close at hand, Seat Assignment consists of photographs, video, and digital images all made while in flight using only a camera phone. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing. At present, over 2500 photographs and video, made on more than 70 different flights to date, constitute the raw material of the project.

Seat Assignment was exhibited for the first time in February 2011 at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, a museum in the city of Dunedin on South Island in New Zealand. Since I had 22 hours of flight time from New York to get to the Dunedin I proposed to make the bulk of the work for the exhibition on the way there. In the exhibition, two of the three galleries focused on work made entirely en route. A third room contained works that functioned as a retrospective look on the first year of the project.

Click here for artist's website

Biography: Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. In February 2010 she was the artist in residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she had a solo show entitled "Seat Assignment." She is currently at work on a permanent public piece, commissioned by the GSA, for a border crossing station between the US and Canada. Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Rockslide Sky

Curated by Carleen Sheehan

The Center Gallery and the Lipani Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
October 1 – November 5, 2012
Opening October 4, 6–8

Press: New York Times, Thursday September 20, 2012

Writer Roberto Bolaño’s story, Gomez Palacio, describes a young poet sent to teach for the Mexican Arts Council in a desert town in the northern state of Durango.  Viewed on a map, the town is literally in the middle of nowhere, and the narrator, an exiled young writer from Pinochet’s Chile, is, at 23 years old, adrift and world-weary.  This is a story where very little happens, yet everything does.  Bolano describes a world where the mundane spawns the beautiful, where color is palpable, where an enigmatic emptiness pervades yet manages to provide strange respite.

Key colors in Gomez Palacio are a long, sky blue car, yellow hills described as pure light-- and possibly eternity--, a night sky that descends like a gray wall, and a green, spectral light that appears when passing car headlights rake the desert floor at night. There is also mention of a sky that looks like a rockslide settling over the town.

Bolaño writes as an aggregator, gathering, collating and finally distilling factual information into lucid bits of confounding beauty. Things that shouldn’t add up, do, and much falls by the wayside, or, as the narrator says, is “unlikely, like most things in this story”.  Critic Pauline Font writes in her NY Times review that “the aura of mystery and melancholy Bolaño create(s) in Gomez Palacio)…is a sort of microclimate reminiscent of Kafka,…a weather that obliterate(s) everything outside the story”.

The artists in this exhibition all touch on aspects of the narrative in compelling ways, bringing visual impact and tangential experience to the space evoked by the written word. In a sense this exhibition is a visual collaboration with Roberto Bolaño, conjuring and collaging visual accomplices to his words.

ROCKSLIDE SKY / ARTISTS LIST

Justin Berry
Mary Carlson
Marsha Cottrell
Steve Di Bennedetto
Franklin Evans
Janet Gillespie
Jared Handelsman
Michelle Kloehn
Katerina Lanfranco
Joel Longenecker
Tom McGrath
Laura Newman
Morgan O’Hara
Ann Pibal
Marcy Rosenblat
Jackie Saccoccio

Documentary Photography: Japan 2012-2013

This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan.

The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa. Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.

Traveling by Shinkansen bullet train at 300 km/h (186 mph), we will make our way south to Kyoto, the nexus of traditional Japanese culture and history with approximately two thousand temples, shrines, and gardens that we can utilize as both the catalyst and stage for our photography. The extraordinary wealth of visual stimuli we will experience in Japan over ten days will certainly inspire, as well as function as the backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that photographers employ in communicating their interests.

The course will conclude in New York City during the spring semester where participants will work together with the instructor to edit, design, and produce a professional quality book of their photographic projects, including essays detailing the richness of their experience abroad. Prior to traveling to Japan there will be relevant readings and film screenings to serve as preliminary introductions to aspects of Japanese culture. Japanese language skills are not a prerequisite; however, prior completion of Photography One (VART 1124), or Digital Photography (VART 1128) is essential. Class meeting times are demanding and participation in the course necessitates a healthy attitude towards exceptional amounts of walking.

The latest 2011-2012 book:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3286333

The 2010-2011 book:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2177501

VART 3001 – Documentary Photography: Japan 
Dates: 12/27/2012 - 01/06/2013 
Credits: 4
For more information, please contact Professor Apicella-Hitchcock at apicellahit@fordham.edu 

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off
Lipani Gallery, Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street (SL24)
New York, New York 10023
August 3, 2012 to September 20, 2012
Closing Reception September 18, 2012 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Organized by Anibal Pella-Woo and Daniel Willner

Participating Photographers:

Inbal Abergil

Tanyth Berkeley

Antonio Chirinos

Michael Chovan-Dalton

Kai McBride

Katherine McVety

Claudio Nolasco

Anibal Pella-Woo

Preston Rescigno

Dennis Santella

Daniel Willner

Johanna Wolfe

For artists of such solitary practice, photographers spend a lot of time in conversation. Most often, we speak through our work, responding to the precedent of our models and our peers, trying out new ideas or improvising on themes that have played since the beginnings of the medium. But sometimes, we actually get together and talk.

The photographers participating in The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off were all once photo students in the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. If we did not meet there, we met through friends, and we have all found—not just that we enjoy each other’s company—but that we share a common language and a similar passion. We have each learned, in our own way, that the camera is not just a tool, but also a guide. It is a way of asking questions, of calling out and getting a response.

In his landmark book The Unofficial Countryside, Richard Mabey initiated a new natural history drawn from observations of the interface between natural and urban environments. He describes the peculiar attraction of “a town map with the unexplained spaces marked off.” A similar map might be found in the camera bag of any of these photographers. But for us, the camera itself is our atlas, charting our passage from the known to the unknown, laying out the strange terrain along this intersection.

When we return from our exploration of the new world down the block, our discoveries burned on film or written to card, we are just beginning the conversation. Now to see how these new photographs fit, how they shape themselves in context. Should we meet and share our work, we often find how closely our independent investigations align. Our own compass draws us each to the complexity of the urban landscape: to the shifting boundaries between nature and culture; to the profound mysteries of the commonplace; to the way history lays its palimpsest over the land.

This exhibit is an instance of our ongoing conversation. It is a manifestation of where we are now in our thinking about the urban landscape, what it looks like and what it means. If a common thread were drawn through the work, it might look something like Robert Frost’s first line from The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” Each photograph in its own way describes our unresolved claims to the land, our imperfect stewardship, and our struggle to acknowledge its true quality and value.

Arbitrary Taxonomies

Nina Katchadourian, Lake Michigan, 1996

2012. Image courtesy of Nina Katchadourian and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Arbitrary Taxonomies: works by Dave Charlesworth, Nina Katchadourian, Catherine Lee, Rory Mulligan, and Mickey Smith. Curated by Bridget Donlon.

As soon as there was human experience, there was art. Modern architect Louis Khan articulated this in his statement that “Art, which was immediately felt, was the first word ... the first utterance.” Prehistoric-man created cave paintings, if not to proclaim his existence then to document it. This impulse exists throughout art history and is as ever relevant in contemporary art.

Bringing together artists with disparate practices, Arbitrary Taxonomies presents inventories of invented, existing, and insular worlds through documentation, as with the photographs of Rory Mulligan and Mickey Smith; the ritual of Catherine Lee’s Mark Drawings series; by conflating fiction and reality in Dave Charlesworth’s videos; or when Nina Katchadourain creates works that adhere to an inner logic. Each of these artists work according to a set of systems that are entirely personal, yet are open to multiple readings.

Dave Charlesworth creates a cohesive narrative out of found images in his video works. His latest project attempts to create an arbitrary visual archive of all the terms in the glossary of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, publications from the mid-twentieth century that documented the architecture of the British Isles.

Nina Katchadourian takes the approach of a dedicated scientist to the everyday experience, making order out of a chaotic world with unexpected results such as creating genealogical histories for found objects. The collage Lake Michigan demonstrates this ability to create a new context for the familiar.

In an obsessive daily studio practice, Catherine Lee filled each square in a grid of varying size with a personal hieroglyph to produce The Mark Drawings and The Mark Paintings series of the 1970s. The repetitive imagery results in small variations that reveal a personal system of coding, a record of thought told through abstraction.

Following the lead of historical street photographers, Rory Mulligan uses an existing framework to insert a personal perspective in landscape and portraiture. His collection of images ruminate on gay identity, the suburbs, and everyday weirdness.

Mickey Smith investigates the aesthetics of libraries and their collections, such as the New York Public Library and the Federal Depository Libraries, among others. The works are documentation of a dying form of print that the artist has expressed no sentimental attachment to, but rather serve as an aesthetic material for what she describes as “conceptual language-based, anthropological works”.

For more information, please contact Bridget Donlon at bridget.donlon@gmail.com

graphic Modern USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

graphic Modern
USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

From the experimental to the playful to the rational, Modernism’s idealism is a testament to its vitality and long standing. Bringing together over 75 works from Display, Graphic Design Collection, graphic Modern serves as an overview of this important period and features advertisements, periodicals, posters and ephemera examples from over 30 design pioneers including Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Karl Gerstner, Franco Grignani, Max Huber, Alvin Lustig, Herbert Matter, Bob Noorda, Paul Rand, Emil Ruder, Studio Boggeri, Ladislav Sutnar and Massimo Vignelli, among others. The varied and unique styles of these designers are the foundation for the visual language of today and presumably, tomorrow.

An informal talk and walk-through of the exhibition will take place on Friday, June 15th at 5pm. graphic Modern is curated by Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio - designers, writers and partners at Kind Company, an independent design office in New York City. Display, the website they founded in 2009, is a platform for research, writing and discoveries in graphic design history. Documenting, preserving and providing public access to original materials will help raise the profile of Graphic Design as a source of educational, historical and scholarly analysis. For more information, please visit thisisdisplay.org

Sponsored by The Department of Visual Arts at Fordham University with assistance from Abby Goldstein, Associate Professor and Jaclyn Deihl, BA 2012.

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます
Six New York Photographers in Japan
Kirstie Carrizales, Melanie Chamberlain, Diana Iacono, Katie Mavrovitis, Teresa Salinas, and Rebecca Zoltowski; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます (Six New York Photographers in Japan) is the final culmination of the course "Documentary Photography: Japan" offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University.

The book is 202 pages, 10x8 inches (25x20 cm), with four-color printing and can be ordered in softcover, or hardback in a range of paper grades. Preview the entire book here.

The course description is as follows:

This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan.

The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa. Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.

Traveling by Shinkansen bullet train at 300 km/h (186 mph), we will make our way south to Kyoto, the nexus of traditional Japanese culture and history with approximately two thousand temples, shrines, and gardens that we can utilize as both the catalyst and stage for our photography. The extraordinary wealth of visual stimuli we will experience in Japan over ten days will certainly inspire, as well as function as the backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that photographers employ in communicating their interests.

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

...something wonderful is going to happen...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
11:30 am
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24G

Wim Wender's 1989 film Notebook on Cities and Clothes! Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age. Including, amongst other things, a lovely meditation on the cut of Jean-Paul Sartre's lapels and August Sander's photographs.

You will remember it forever, which says a tremendous amount.

See you there!

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

...something wonderful is going to happen...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
4:00pm until 7:00pm
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H

It is a well-known fact that there is no better way to end your
semester (or year) than by watching all 201 minutes of Chantal
Ackerman's phenomenal 1975 film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce,
1080 Bruxelles."

For a first time ever I will encourage attendees not to do any
research before the screening, as it will ruin your 201 minutes of
domestic bliss. All welcome. Wear comfy clothes. Popcorn and espresso
will be provided on demand. Short bathroom breaks are permitted,
though discouraged. Nappers will be shamed.

You will remember it forever, which says a tremendous amount.

See you there!

EXHIBITION

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Casey Ruble Abby Goldstein Carleen Sheehan 

December 6, 2011 through January 30, 2012 

Opening reception: Thursday, December 8th 6 to 8pm 

CENTER GALLERY 

Fordham University 113 West 60th St. New York, NY 10023 T: 212.636.6303 Fordhamvisualarts.com 

Hrs: Monday to Sunday 9am to 7pm Sponsored by the Theatre and Visual Arts Department

Doug Dubois Photography Lecture

Doug DuBois
Book presentation and photography lecture
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join photographer and educator Doug DuBois for a presentation and discussion of his most recent book Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights published by the Aperture Foundation.

Doug DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father's near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother's subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. While these events set a narrative backdrop to his work, the emotional freight is carried by the details as described by the artist: "the pallor of my mother's skin, the glare of my father's gaze and the tactile communion between my sister and nephew constitute a complex and resonant picture of family ties."

More than twenty years later, DuBois's project has developed in remarkable ways. Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights resonates with emotional immediacy, offering a potent examination of family relations, and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera. Each photograph is rich with color, nuanced gestures and glances enveloping the viewer in a multivalent, emotionally tense world.

Links:
http://www.dougdubois.com

Biography:
DOUG DUBOIS (born in Dearborn, Michigan 1960) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Benchmarks exhibition

BENCHMARKS: Seven Women in Design | New York

The DailyHeller on BENCHMARKS


From June 10 through August 15, Center Gallery at Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, Lindsay Reichart and Abby Goldstein are pleased to present the exhibition “Benchmarks: Seven Women in Design | New York.” In the past half a century women have gained prominence and recognition in what was a male dominated profession. This exhibition is curated to give homage to seven remarkable designers who practice in New York and have made significant contributions to graphic design. These designers include Louise Fili, Carin Goldberg, Paula Scher, Gail Anderson, Eileen Boxer, Elaine Lustig Cohen, and Lucille Tenazas. The exhibition features work that exemplifies a pivotal point in their direction or approach to their design practice. Through this exhibition, the extraordinary creative voices of seven designers are revealed, and the relevance of their design and their role in shaping the future of design celebrated.

June 10–September 15 | 113 West 60th Street, NYC
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10am–8pm

For further information, please contact Lindsay Reichart C: 631.875.9714 or lindsay.reichart@gmail.com. or Abby Goldstein: T:718 852 5048 or abby@abbygoldstein.com

Carin Goldberg, The School of Visual Arts Senior Library, 2004, hardbound, 

offset on paper,10 ¾ in x 7 3/8 in

Carin Goldberg, Punctuation, 2004, silkscreen, 40 in x 26 in 

Eileen Boxer, Ubu Invitations, 1995 – 2007, Ubu Gallery, various sizes and 

mediums

Eileen Boxer, Ephemera transformation

Lucille Tenazas, To Infinity and Beyond, silkscreen, 48 in x 37 in

Lucille Tenazas, Moto Group Cards and Envelopes, Green Card, 9 ½ in x 6 in, 

1994, offset on paper

Paula Scher, Dancing on Her Knees

Paula Scher, Him

Gail Anderson, Lucky Serif Dream Book, 2011, offset on paper, 7 ½ in x 5 in 

Gail Anderson, Axl Rose: The Lost Years, 2000

Elaine Lustig Cohen, Mies Van der Rohe, 2001, 35 ¾ in x 24 ½ in

Elaine Lustig Cohen, A Millionth Anniversary 1958, offset on paper, 

Louise Fili, Le Monde, 1999, offset on paper, 2 ¼ in x 11 ½ in

Louise Fili, Calea Nero d’Avola, 5 in x 3 in, 2008, wine bottle, offset on paper

Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion

Daniel Seiple
Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage.

Project synopsis:
On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Another gave an eyewitness account of a plane-to-plane Kamikaze attack. The other group, the Joso Flying Club, was semi-professional and showed more interest in making history, rather than discussing it. When asked if he was interested in real airplanes, one pilot responded, “For me, airplanes are a thing to look at rather than fly.” The hobby club declined to perform the crash for safety reasons, but more likely, because they were not capable. The Joso Club agreed and 8 Japanese RC operators witnessed the attack.

Links:
Travelhome.org
Arcus Residency Moriya, Japan

Biography:
Daniel Seiple was born in 1973. Daniel Seiple has been working on projects which reconsider various "borders" in contemporary society. Mimicking, crossing, shifting, destroying or redrawing boundaries.... They include physical / geographical markers as well as social and psychological territories. Each project is realized for a specific site and situation by employing various strategies and mediums.

Images:
One production still taken during the filming of Rajikon (Radio Control); three frames from Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu