Ildiko Butler Travel Grant
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
(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.
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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
New Course 2014!
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
New Course for spring 2014: Marketing and the City: Tokyo
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
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
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
The Ildiko Butler Gallery Opening Exhibition
Featuring photographs by:
Ildiko Butler
Dylan Chandler
Tiffany Edwards
Joseph Lawton
Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
On view: September 23 – October 31, 2013
Reception: Monday, September 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
The Ildiko Butler Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
http://ildikobutlergallery.com/
Image credits: (left to right, top to bottom) Ildiko Butler, Apt, France, 2013; Joseph Lawton, Calcutta, 1989; Tiffany Edwards, Brandon, 2003; Dylan Chandler, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, 2013
The current display of black and white photographs by Ildiko Butler, Dylan Chandler, Tiffany Edwards, and Joseph Lawton is the inaugural exhibition of the Ildiko Butler Gallery at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus. Ildiko Butler (FCLC 1985), Dylan Chandler (FCLC 2004), and Tiffany Edwards (FCLC 2002) are all Fordham alumni and former students of Professor Joseph Lawton. Their work represents a range of years, different photographic styles, and interests; however, despite the differences in their individual focus, each photographer is engaged in the process of carefully studying the world and representing it in a straightforward, descriptive manner. Fidelity to what is framed is of paramount importance.
Ildiko Butler’s digital photographs were made in Apt, France in 2013. Her careful scrutiny of a single site yields a number of meditative, found sculptures and still lifes. As well, her interests in form and attention to light have a connection to romantic photographs by late 19th and early 20th century landscape photographers.
Dylan Chandler’s photographs were made at nighttime in Hong Kong in 2012. His precise focus is on the architecture of a modern city and the repetitions and juxtapositions that are found in dense urban environments. People are conspicuously absent; yet, constantly alluded to.
Tiffany Edward’s large format photographs were made in Staten Island, close to where she grew up. Her portraits of individual children are candid and understated. Despite her use of a cumbersome, large format camera on a tripod, the portraits have an immediacy and intimacy.
Joseph Lawton’s 35mm photographs from around the world have a narrative quality and embrace the theatrical found in everyday moments.
Regardless of the photographers’ chosen subjects, all the participants in this exhibition are deeply engaged in the process of looking at what is in front of them. Their images embrace a long tradition in the medium of photography that celebrates the revelatory power of direct representation.
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, 2013
For more information please contact: apicellahit@fordham.edu
New Book: Documentary Photography: Italy 2013!
6 Caffe
By Rebecca Brown, Raymond Sung Ho Chang, Michelle Kalil, Christopher Nelson, Dorina Puchinskaya, Barbara Rusnack; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Joseph Lawton
6 Caffe is the final culmination of the 2013 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 90 pages, 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 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 2013 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