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Learn the fundamentals of photography, from understanding your camera settings to composition techniques, in this beginner photography class in Chicago. Participants will gain the skills necessary to capture stunning images in various lighting conditions and refine their creative eyes.
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Lectures in Photography
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 618 S MICHIGAN AVE, Chicago, IL
Anne Tucker, formerly the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has recently retired to pursue new projects after having been with the museum for 39 years. Named America’s best curator by TIME magazine in 2001, Tucker was the museum’s founding curator of photography, and expanded the collection from 141 works in 1976 to 29,000 works by 4,000 artists. Tucker has curated numerous shows throughout her...
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Lecture: Bruce Cumings
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Bruce Cumings is chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. In 2003, Cumings won the University of Chicago's award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung...
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Panel Discussion: Iman Issa, Basim Magdy, & Onur Öztürk
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Exhibiting artists Iman Issa and Basim Magdy will join Curator Karen Irvine and Onur Öztürk, professor of art history at Columbia College Chicago, for a discussion on monuments and monumentality, and their links to language and photography. Originally from Turkey, Öztürk focuses on art and architecture, and archaeology of Ancient Rome and the Islamic world.
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Video Playlist
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Video Playlist is a recurring series of one night public video screenings programmed in response to MoCP exhibitions. For Disruptive Perspectives, Video Playlist presents a night of moving image works from artists and writers who turn traditional modes of popular storytelling into a platform for producing queer and intersectional entertainment.
Lecture: Richard Mosse
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Richard Mosse’s photography captures the beauty and tragedy in war and destruction. His most recent series, Infra captures the ongoing war between rebel factions in the Congo. The Infra series is marked by Mosse’s use of Kodak Aerochrome, a discontinued reconnaissance infrared film. The film registers chlorophyll in live vegetation, with the results rendering the lush rainforest into a beautifully...
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Lecture in Photography: Christian Boltanski
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Christian Boltanski is one of France's foremost artists whose installations challenge basic assumptions of what constitutes an artwork. Since the 1960s, he has worked with the ephemera of daily life and human experience, from obituary photographs to rusted biscuit tins, to examine the transitory nature of our life on earth. He employs lights, candles, shadows, and imagery of death in a body of work that is about memory and loss and the relation between...
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MoCP at 40
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Photography turns 40 in 2016, so of course a celebratory exhibition is in order. Ours, MoCP at 40, showcases contemporary photographic art as we have always seen it: as a wonderful big tent of iconic photographers alongside talented lesser-known image-makers absent from the canonical history books. All the works on view come from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 14,000 objects. They have...
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Opening Reception: MoCP at 40
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Join us for an opening reception in honor of our newest exhibition , MoCP at 40. Commemorating the MoCP’s 40th anniversary, this exhibition will highlight a diverse selection of works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection.
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Symposium: The Unstable Image
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Discussion, the fading image: Binh Danh, Sylvie Penichon, and Nadine Wietlisbach Museums work to preserve photographs because they are cultural artifacts, but they are also material objects. From distinct points of view, exhibiting artist Binh Danh, Conservator, Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago Sylvie Penichon, and Director of Photoforum PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland Nadine Wietlisbach will discuss the inherent instability...
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Lecture in Photography: Mark Sealy
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Since 1991, Mark Sealy has served as director of Autograph ABP, the Association of Black Photographers, based in Shoreditch, London. He has written for a number of international photography publications, including Foam Magazine (Amsterdam), Aperture (New York), and in 2002, published Different, a book project focused on photography and identity. Sealy is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University, England. His research and curatorial...
Lecture in Photography: Nadav Kander
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 618 S MICHIGAN AVE, Chicago, IL
Nadav Kander travels the globe, documenting sites of environmental degradation and places of mass development. His work is held in the public collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, and the Société Générale, Paris, France and has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Palais De Tokyo, the Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel, and Camera Work, Berlin, Germany. In 2015, the...
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Opening Reception: Burnt Generation and Midwest
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Join us for an opening reception for our new exhibitions, Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography and Midwest Photographers Project: Hossein Fatemi. At 6 pm, hear a talk with Chicago-based photographer Hossein Fatemi and WBEZ Worldview analyst Narimon Safavi. Burnt Generation exhibiting artist Gohar Dashti will also be present at the opening reception.
MoCP Presents: Picture Me Student Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Now in its fifteenth year, this annual student exhibition features works made by teens who participate in Picture Me, an afterschool photography program sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) at three Chicago high schools: Curie Metropolitan High School, Juarez Community Academy, and Nicholas Senn High School. Co-taught by teams of working artists, this program cultivates teens as independent...
Lecture in Photography: Martha Rosler
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Martha Rosler creates incisive social and political analyses of the myths and realities of contemporary culture. Her work explores issues from daily life and the mass media to architecture and the built environment, and in particular, the ways in which these subjects affect women. Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American...
Lecture in Photography: Joel-Peter Witkin
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Joel-Peter Witkin is renowned as the creator of elaborately constructed and often erotically charged photographic tableaux exploring grand themes of religion, sex and mortality with continual references to art history. Witkin has pursued complex issues of the human condition for more than 40 years through people most often cast aside by society. Witkin’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of...
Opening Reception: Viviane Sasssen: UMBRA
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Join us for an opening reception for Viviane Sassen: UMBRA. UMBRA is an exhibition consisting of photography and multimedia works by acclaimed fashion photographer Viviane Sassen (Dutch, b. 1972). The work in UMBRA, which means shadow in Latin, emphasizes the play of light and shadow that is characteristic of her work. The artist is also known for her alluring color photographs in which form and content balance on the...
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Lecture in Photography: Barbara Tannenbaum
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Will Success Spoil Photography? Why is an Andreas Gursky photo currently worth fifty times more than an Emmet Gowin or a Cindy Sherman fourteen times more than an Aaron Siskind? How – and why – did this escalation in price and status occur? Photography’s move into the same marketplace as painting and sculpture has altered our perception of the medium’s dual nature as object and as image. What do these changes bode for the future of...
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Lecture in Photography: Jennifer Blessing
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Jennifer Blessing is senior curator of photography at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Throughout her career, she has curated many photography-based exhibitions, including Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (2014), Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective (2012), and Francesca Woodman (2012). Most recently Blessing curated Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (2016), a group exhibition...
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Lecture in Photography: Deana Lawson
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
For nearly a decade, Lawson has been investigating the visual expression of global black culture and how individuals claim their identities within it. Her staged portraits draw upon Western and African diasporic conventions of self-presentation, popular culture, mythology, and religious rituals and beliefs—emphasizing dialogues among the past, present, and future of black culture. Lectures in Photography are...
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