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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

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Faculty Spotlight 2013

Faculty Spotlight 2013
Joseph Lawton, David Storey, Mark StreetThe 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:

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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 ?>

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

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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 ?>

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

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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, 10×8 inches (25×20 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 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 ?>

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

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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

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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