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Spring 2025 Events

Please RSVP to vsri@usc.edu.

“Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema”

Exhibition tour with JESSICA NIEBEL, Senior Exhibitions Curator, Academy Museum. Saturday, February 1, 10:00am PST. Academy Museum Limited capacity, RSVP required.

“Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932-1945)”

GAËLLE MOREL, PH.D. Curator, Exhibitions and Public Engagement, The Image Centre, Toronto. Wednesday, March 26, 5:30-7:00pm. PST SOS 250.

Fall 2024 Events

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14: Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West

EXHIBITION TOUR with Curators. 10:30am PT- Autry Museum of the American West.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

DEBORAH DASH MOORE: Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History, University of Michigan. 5:30-7:30pm PT- SOS 250.

Spring 2024 Events

BROOKE BELISLE

BOOK TALK: Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

DIANA KAMIN

BOOK TALK: Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy

EXHIBITION TOUR: Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media

LACMA tour with TIMOTHY O. BENSON

Fall 2023 Events

EXHIBITION TOUR: Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928-1978)

Exhibition tour with IDURRE ALONSO: Curator of Latin American Collections, Getty Research Institute

SANDRINE COLARD

“Nos Images: Colonial and African Photography in Postwar Belgian Congo”

ROTEM ROZENTAL

“Alternative Visions in the Institutional Archive: Haim Shmuel Mizrahi’s Albums and the Zionist Movement”

Spring 2023 Events

EXHIBITION TOUR: The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art

Exhibition tour with Associate Curator of Korean Art, VIRGINIA MOON

SUSAN LAXTON

Works In Progress: “Surrealism Writes the News.”

Fall 2022 Events

NICK YABLON

“Street of Ruins: Charles Gilbert Hine’s Photographic Survey of New York’s Broadway, 1905”

ALICE MORIN

“Producing Postwar Glamour: Condé Nast Photography, from the Studio to Print”

EXHIBITION TOUR: Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971

Exhibition tour at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with DORIS BERGER

Spring 2022 Events

“Turning the Crank Around the World: Global Visions, Local Histories: The Lumière Brothers in the Middle East and North Africa”

MICHAEL ALLAN (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon): Gabriel Veyre in the Sultan’s Court of Amusements PATRICIA GOLDSWORTHY-BISHOP (Associate Professor of History, Western Oregon University) Discussants: PANIVONG NORINDR & MICHAEL RENOV, USC. Co-sponsored by USC School of Cinematic Arts

Gallery Viewing: City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907

LACMA co-curators LEAH LEHMBECK, BRITT SALVESEN, and VANESSA SCHWARTZ Musée d’Orsay co-curators PAUL PERRIN and MARIE ROBERT

Fall 2021 Events

MATTHEW FOX-AMATO & DHYANDRA LAWSON

“Black American Portraits”

RHONDA GARELICK

“Loie Fuller Between Photography and Film”

THOMAS W. LAQUEUR & BRITT SALVESEN

Gallery Visit: LACMA Resnick Pavilion: Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, 1870-1900 “Animal Portraiture Before and After Photography”

Spring 2021 Events

VANESSA DÍAZ

Book Talk: Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood

VINCE ALETTI

Book Talk: Issues: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines

NADYA BAIR

Book Talk: The Decisive Network

Fall 2020 Events

EZRA EDELMAN

O.J.: Made in America and Photographing Sports

PHILIP GEFTER

Book Talk: What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon

KIM BEIL

“When Are Good Pictures? A Genealogy of Photographic Style”

LERONN P. BROOKS

“The Johnson Publishing Company: Photography, Memory and Activism”

Fall 2019 Events

JOAN M. SCHWARTZ

GALLERY DISCUSSION: THOMAS JOSHUA COOPER: THE WORLD’S EDGE

LOUIE PALU

ARCTIC TO ASBESTOS: NEW DOCUMENTARY WORK AND THE ENVIRONMENT

EMILY KATHRYN MORGAN

IMAGING ANIMAL INDUSTRY: VISUALIZING THE AMERICAN MEAT TRADE

Spring 2019 Events

PHOTOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM

Finding One’s Place: Photography and Its Many Dimensions Co-sponsored by LACMA and the UCR-Arts

PAUL ROTH

“Gordon Parks, Life Magazine and Flávio: 1961 and Today”

Spring 2018 Events

RYAN LINKOF; Respondent: ARPAD KOVACS

PERMISSION NOT GRANTED: A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE UNAUTHORIZED CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPH

TANYA SHEEHAN

REVIVAL AND SUBVERSION: SNAPSHOT PERFORMANCES, FROM KODAK TO KARA WALKER

LOUISE HORNBY

PHOTOGRAPIC STILLNESS

Fall 2017 Events

ROUNDTABLE ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.

LA/LA: A CELEBRATION BEYOND BORDERS CECILIA FAJARDOHILL, curator, “Radical Women,” Hammer Museum CHON NORIEGA, curator, “Home,” LACMA AMY SCOTT, cocurator, “La Raza,” Autry Museum Respondent: JESSE LERNER, Pitzer College, Claremont

GAËLLE MOREL

THE FIGURE OF A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE AT FORTUNE (1930-1937)

Spring 2017 Events

ESTELLE BLASCHKE

“ ‘We May Go Down in History as a Film Age’: The Rise and Imaginary of Microfilm”

PAUL MARTINEAU

“Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography”
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