The Photograph As Contemporary Art With Charlotte Cotton

Curator of Photography, LACMA  In this lecture, Charlotte Cotton addresses photographic practice over the past decade and the notion of photography as an accepted and fashionable form of contemporary art.The lecture qualifies the versions of contemporary art photography that have made a lasting impact on the discourses of art as well as highlighting the issues they raise for our perceptions of photographic practice today.

Juror Charlotte Cotton is Department Head and Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Previously, she was Head of Cultural Programs at Art + Commerce in New York, Head of Programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London and a Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1993 to 2004. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including, Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs (2000), Out of Japan (2002), Stepping In and Out: contemporary documentary photography (2003) and Guy Bourdin (2003). Cotton is the author and editor of publications such as Imperfect Beauty (2000), Then Things Went Quiet (2003), Guy Bourdin (2003) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004), a title in the World of Art series published by Thames & Hudson. Her most recent writing includes essays and interviews with Paul Graham, Rinko Kawauchi, Hannah Starkey, David Hilliard, Inez van Lamsweerde, Desiree Dolron, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

Friday: August 3, 7:00 pm
Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue

$8 General, $5 PCNW Members,
SAM Members, and students
Tickets available by calling 206-720-7222 ext. 10, at the door