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Bill Cunningham New York

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers for a screening of Bill Cunningham New York by Richard Press.
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

February 11, 2014, 12 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

Selections from the Fordham University Charles Francis | Graphic Design Archives ?>

Selections from the Fordham University Charles Francis | Graphic Design Archives

Selections
from the Fordham University
Charles Francis | Graphic Design Archives

The Lipani Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
http://lipanigallery.com/

Curators: Curated by Abby Goldstein with Lucy Sutton and Sally Thurer
On view: February 3 through March 28, 2014
Reception: Opening reception: Thursday February 27, 5:30 to 7pm

This exhibition highlights just a small portion of a rich and unique collection that has been acquired by Fordham University Lincoln Center for our Graphic Design Archives. The material spans a period of 100 years, showing the history of the advertising, printing, paper, and typesetting industries. Many items in this collection are limited-edition printed samples of design and typography, books on typography, paper and printing techniques, typographic specimens, and books on printing and design. Charles Francis (1846–1936), who was one of the preeminent American publishers of the twentieth century and considered the “dean of the American printing industry,” began to assemble the collection in the 1880s. Mr. Francis wrote several books on printing and founded the Printers’ League of America in 1906. He dedicated his life to promoting the industry and to teaching publishing, and this extraordinary collection is a testimony to his commitment and zeal. The collection continued to grow under the stewardship of the Allied Printing Union, which was housed in the New York High School of Printing for many years.

The work on display in the Lipani Gallery is a mélange of type and printing examples that illustrates the inventiveness and advancement in the advertising, design, and typesetting industry during the first half of the twentieth century. Highlighted in the exhibition are the inventive and groundbreaking magazines Upper and Lower Case (U&lc) and Westvaco Inspirations.

Upper and Lower Case was created and produced by Herb Lubalin, a highly regarded iconoclastic advertising art director, type designer and publication designer for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC). The “newspaper style” publication was targeted toward the design community. There were over 120 issues produced between 1970 and 1999. The publication promoted the latest typefaces from ITC, which was the first type foundry to exploit new photo typesetting techniques and not use traditional metal foundry type.

Lubalin served as art director to U&lc for 11 years, until his death in 1981. The publication focused on showing experimental typographic compositions and was hugely successful within the design community as it shepherded in a period of new and expressive typography.

Westvaco Inspirations was a graphic-arts publication issued by the Westvaco Corporation, originally called the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. The objective of the magazine was to demonstrate what the printing processes and its papers could produce by utilizing a variety of cutting-edge and traditional printing methods, including letterpress and offset lithography. Originally published in 1925, Westvaco Inspirations was a leading corporate contributor to the graphic-arts profession until its discontinuation in 1962. It remains unsurpassed as an example of promotional graphics, an anthology of advertising and commercial art, and, more importantly, a chronicle of a period of time in American history.

Between 1939 and 1962, Bradbury Thompson designed more than sixty Westvaco Inspirations. Thompson was highly regarded for his design direction, impeccable taste and his ability to blend modernist typographic layouts with classic typefaces and historic illustrations.

*Runaway Train, 1985, was based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa. It is an action thriller staring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay and John P. Ryan.

Sponsored by the Visual Arts Department, Fordham University Lincoln Center

For more information please contact:
Abby Goldstein, Associate Professor of Art, Fordham University, abgoldstein@fordham.edu
Visual Arts Department Blog: click here
Visual Arts Department Website: click here

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint ?>

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint

Gary Metz: Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint

The Ildiko Butler Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
http://ildikobutlergallery.com/

Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
Essay: Edward Earle
Dates: January 20, 2014 – March 20, 2014
Reception: Tuesday, January 21, 6 – 8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, January 22, 6PM: Edward Earle, Curator, Collections, International Center of Photography

Fordham University, winter 2014
Rhode Island School of Design, fall 2014
Spéos International Photography School Paris/London, winter 2015
Syracuse University, spring 2015
Southeast Museum of Photography, fall 2015

In the 1970’s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz’s Quaking Aspen: a Lyric Complaint challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic, and unspoiled. Unlike previous photographers who glorified nature, Metz and his contemporaries wrenched photography out of the national parks and replaced the scenic with the vernacular of the American landscape.

A number of Metz’s colleagues received wide recognition for their similar investigations culminating in the seminal 1975 exhibition, The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Gary Metz never received the same level of acknowledgement. Now, 40 years later, his Quaking Aspen: a Lyric Complaint is as powerful and relevant as ever, resonating with current interest in ecology and the everyday landscape.

Quaking Aspen: a Lyric Complaint is a long overdue exhibition of our former teacher’s photographs. We hope that you enjoy the intelligence, formal rigor, and humor found in each of these images. –Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton, Professors, Fordham University

This exhibition is generously supported by Fordham University Art Collections & funded in part from a Fordham University Faculty Challenge Grant. For more information please contact: apicellahit@fordham.edu

The 21 black & white gelatin silver prints were printed in 2013/2014 by Sergio Purtell and the staff of Black and White on White

Documentary Photography: Italy 2014 ?>

Documentary Photography: Italy 2014

Documentary Photography: ITALY 2014

(4 credits) With Professors Joseph Lawton & Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock. 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.

VART 3500: Documentary Photography: ITALY program cost: $2,550 (includes: housing, breakfast, bus pass, phone, and admissions costs). Tuition not included. Program Dates: July 13th to August 10th. For more information please contact: Professor Lawton (jlawton@fordham.edu), Professor Apicella-Hitchcock (apicellahit@fordham.edu). Application deadline: March 1, 2014.

Apply here

The 2013 Program Book:
R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
The 2012 Program Book:
R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton
The 2011 Program Book:
R, Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) ?>

Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and the participants in the 2013-2014 Documentary Photography: Japan course for a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 film Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). Food and friends are welcome.
November 15, 2013, 6:00 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

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Faculty Spotlight 2013

Faculty Spotlight 2013

The Ildiko Butler Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
http://ildikobutlergallery.com/

Featuring works by:

William Conlon
Sandra McKee
Ross McLaren

The current display of works in Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery is the 2013 installment of the annual Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Each year in the fall three members from different disciplines within the Department of Theater and Visual Art are asked to share a sampling of their production with the Fordham community. This year, painting is represented by William Conlon, architecture by Sandra McKee, and film/video by Ross McLaren. Despite the clear differences in their mediums and approaches, their works generate a lively dialogue about interpretations of space and representational methods.

Dates: November 4, 2013 – January 17, 2014
Reception: Wednesday, November 6, 6 – 8 p.m.

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For more information please contact: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Documentary Photography: Japan 2013-2014 ?>

Documentary Photography: Japan 2013-2014

Documentary Photography: Japan 2013-2014
 
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.

Preview the class books:

2012-2013 Documentary Photography: Japan here.
2011-2012: 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)
2010-2011: One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan here.

All books edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
For further information please contact: Professor Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu