Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) announces its 2005 photography festival, which runs throughout October and includes multiple activities of interest to photographers, collectors, gallery owners, curators, and general arts enthusiasts.
Lecture Series and Opening Weekend Celebration
Larry Sultan will kick off this year’s festival on Thursday, September 29, as part of a grand opening weekend that will also include an opening reception hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), a day of Portfolio Reviews, and ACP’s first Portfolio Walk (see below for details).
San Francisco-based photographer and professor Larry Sultan is one of contemporary photography’s most engaging artists. Sultan uses his camera to explore the complexities of middle-class suburbia. In his most recent series, The Valley, he explores the adult film industry’s home among the middle-class neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley. The Valley continues Sultan’s investigations into domesticity that began with Pictures from Home (1992), an examination of the artist’s own family and history. Sultan’s talk, co-sponsored by the Atlanta College of Art, will be held at the Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, on Thursday, September 29, 7 p.m.
Also among this year’s speakers will be Emma Dexter, Senior Curator at the Tate Modern, London, who will lecture on Tuesday, October 11, 7 p.m. at the Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center. Dexter was the co-curator of Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th Century Photograph, and her talk, entitled "Tate and Photography: The role of Cruel and Tender 2003 - Tate's First Photography Exhibition," will be co-sponsored by Charlotte and Jim Dixon; Photo Forum, support group of the High Museum of Art, and Art Papers.
Legendary documentary and fine art photography Bruce Davidson will speak on Tuesday, October 18, 7 p.m. at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine and joined Magnum Photos in 1958. With a 1962 Guggenheim Fellowship he began documenting the Civil Rights Movement. He was awarded the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966, and he spent the next two years documenting one block in East Harlem. This lecture is sponsored by the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Paul Aresu will speak at The Portfolio Center on Tuesday, October 25, at 7 p.m. Fashion and portrait photographer Aresu includes Nike, Verizon, Pepsi, Grey Goose, Target, Canon, Harrah’s, American Express, Mercedes, Budlight, and Ford among his clients. He is currently photographing over 350 jazz musicians, a project he plans to turn into a book. This lecture is co-sponsored by Canon USA and The Portfolio Center.
The 2005 Lecture Series is sponsored in part by AirTran Airways.
ACP Collaborations (new)
ACP Collaborations bring special programs in conjunction with exhibitions on view during the festival. These are offered in collaboration with local venues.
Among this year’s collaborations is a discussion with Context Art Projects, “We Like To Watch” – Realism in Contemporary Photography, a panel discussion moderated by Erik Schneider and featuring renowned photographers Bill Owens, Chris Verene, and Amy Arbus and Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of A