American Geography | The West | Live Virtual Talk
Thursday, July 15, 2021
2 pm PT | 3 pm MT | 4 pm CT | 5 pm ET
Radius Books invites you to join photographer Dannielle Bowman, author Hilary Green, and curator Gregory Harris in conversation with curator Sandra S. Phillipsand publisher David Chickey about American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, with a focus on the South.
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ABOUT THE PANELISTS
DANNIELLE BOWMAN is a visual artist working with photography. Bowman received a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2019, she was a contributor to the New York Times Magazine’s The 1619 Project. Bowman has been an artist in residence at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York; the Center for Photography at Woodstock; and PICTURE BERLIN. She was awarded the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize and was a recipient of the 2020 PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant. In 2021 she will participate in the Light Work Artist-In-Residence program. Bowman has exhibited in the US and internationally. She lives and works in New York.
DR. HILARY N. GREEN is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies and serves as the co-program director of the African American Studies program at the University of Alabama. She also has a partial appointment in American Studies. She earned her B.A. in History with minors in Africana Studies and Pre-Healing Arts from Franklin and Marshall College; M.A. in History from Tufts University; and Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, class, and gender in African American history, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Civil War Memory, the US South, 19th Century America, and the Black Atlantic.
GREGORY HARRIS is the High Museum of Art’s Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. He is a specialist in documentary photography best known for his work with emerging artists. Harris was previously the Associate Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, where he curated exhibitions including Sonja Thomsen: Glowing Wavelengths in Between (2015), The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (2014), and Studio Malick: Portraits from Mali (2012). He also organized and authored catalogues for the exhibitions We Shall: Photographs by Paul D’Amato (2013), Matt Siber: Idol Structures (2015), and Liminal Infrastructure (2015).
SANDRA S. PHILLIPS is Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she was appointed Curator of Photography in 1987, and Senior Curator of Photography in 1999. She retired from the museum in 2016, and since then has worked as Adjunct Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and has contributed to various publications. In 2000 she was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome, and she has organized numerous exhibitions and monographs.