Gallery Walk at Palace of the Governors
February 17th, 2009
This Friday, February 20th, I’m giving a public lecture/gallery walk at the Palace of the Governors here in Santa Fe, NM. This gallery walk is in conjunction with a massive exhibition entitled Through the Lens, curated by Mary Anne Redding and Krista Elrick. The exhibition, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe is part of the city-wide celebration of Santa Fe’s 400th anniversary as well as the centennial of the Museum of New Mexico. The exhibition itself features 175 photographic objects (prints of all sorts, from daguerreotypes to platinum prints, to regular old gelatin-silver prints, along with numerous old cameras and stereographic viewers).
The Palace of the Governors was originally constructed in the early 17th century (approximately 1610) as Spain’s seat of government for what is today the American Southwest, making the Palace one of the oldest working buildings in the United States. (Can you beat that, Boston?!). It’s an honor to be able to speak about the show and even more of an honor to somehow contribute to the living history of the building.
Photography: A Very Short Introduction
Words Without Pictures (Aperture, 2010)
Short Track, by Jake Mendel
Bird Watching, by Paula McCartney