Thursday, March 28, 2013, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street (2nd and 3rd Ave), 3rd Floor
(please bring photo ID for building entry)
Q & A to follow the discussion.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
$5 general admission, $3 for other students with ID
Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. For this work he was awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His book The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West was published by Duke University Press (2005). Smith has received Guggenheim and Aaron Siskind Fellowships. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smith received a BFA from Utah State University and a MFA from the Yale School of Art. He has taught photography at Yale and Brown University and currently lives in Barrington, RI, and teaches in the photography department at Rhode Island School of Design. Visit his website at www.stevesmithphotography.net.
September 13, 2012 – Oded Hirsch
October 18, 2012 – Pinar Yolaçan
November 15, 2012 – Robert Lyons
December 13, 2012 – Neil Goldberg
January 17, 2013 – Susan Lipper
February 19, 2013 – Doug DuBois
March 28, 2013 – Steven B. Smith
April 11, 2013 – Justine Kurland
The CCNY Lecture Series is presented in conjunction with the SVA BFA Photography Department.
CCNY‘s lectures are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
