As part of the ongoing Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series, the Hammer Museum presents lectures by the most accomplished and influential living photographers. The slide lectures are followed by question and answer periods; previous participants include Mary Ellen Mark and Stephen Shore.
Lectures
7pm
Lorna Simpson
Since her emergence in the early 1980s, Simpson has raised probing, philosophical questions as a photo-based artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the photographic medium, viewpoints of the self, and the relationship between image and text. She has exhibited her work throughout the world including recent solo exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City.
Eugene Richards
Eugene Richards is an acclaimed editorial and advertising photographer, an author, and a filmmaker. He has completed assignments for Life, The New York Times Magazine, the London Telegraph, and others, and is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several NEA grants. Richards studied with legendary photographer Minor White, and joined the influential Magnum Photo Agency in 1979. His most recent publication, The Fat Baby, was released this year.
