HELP ME Panel Presentation

Tuesday, December 14
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 and signing of HELP ME limited edition book to follow the discussion.

Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $5, $3 for other students with ID

In conjunction with HELP ME exhibition, CCNY presents a lecture and panel discussion about found photography at School of Visual Arts. Panelists include Luc Sante, W.M. Hunt, and Leslie Grant, and will be moderated by Megan Cump. Each will present excerpts from their collections of found photographs and related projects while addressing the resonance, subversive possibilities, and relevance of found and vernacular photography, including themes from the HELP ME exhibition. The panel will also discuss and explore the desire to uncover, comprehend, repurpose, and accumulate “orphan” images.

HELP ME Biographies

Gillian McCain is the co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Grove Press), and the author of two books of poetry: Tilt and Religion. She is the former Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, and her work has appeared in such journals as Grand Street, MoonLit, Court Green and Lingo. She is currently collaborating on a book with photographer Kate Simon; a book-length poem with poets David Trinidad and Jeffrey Conway based on Valley of the Dolls; as well as two new projects with Legs McNeil.

Megan Cump is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, including White Columns, Randall Scott Gallery, the Bronx Museum of Art, NY; and the Tamayo Museum, Mexico. Cump has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, LMCC Workspace, and the Saltonstall Foundation. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BA from Macalester College, and attended Skowhegan. She is currently on faculty at the International Center of Photography. www.megancump.com

Luc Sante’s books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography, which received the 2010 Infinity Award for writing from the International Center of Photography. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography: collector, dealer, teacher, writer, etc. A book The Unseen Eye based on his collection of “magical heart stopping images of people in which their eyes cannot be seen” will be published next fall by Thames & Hudson in conjunction with a U.S. tour.

Leslie Grant is interested in the storytelling possibilities of images. Her current project, with Dutch photographer Judith van Ijken and employees of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, focuses on the theme of international collaboration. She teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design. www.altproject.com/grant




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.