January | February 2006 - Boston Photography Focus

4 | education
LECTURE/BOOK-SIGNING
The cover of Steven B. Smith’s book The Weather and a Place
to Live.
The Weather and a Place to Live
Photographs of the Suburban West
by Steven B. Smith
Thursday, January 26, 2006, 7:00pm
BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF
COMMUNICATIONS, AUDITORIUM 101,
640 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON
FREE FOR MEMBERS, FULL-TIME STUDENTS, AND
SENIORS / $5 NON-MEMBERS
COPIES OF SMITH’S BOOK CAN BE PURCHASED
FROM THE PRC FOR $40
Join Steven Smith, professor of photography
at the Rhode Island School of Design, for a
discussion of his new book The Weather and a
Place to Live, which recently earned the Center
for Documentary Studies/Honickman First
Book Prize. This compelling work portrays
the manmade landscape of the western United
States, where we come face to face with the
surreal intersection of the American appetite
for suburban development and the resistant,
rolling, arid country of the desert West. Mr.
Smith will be on-hand to sign copies of the
book following the talk.
PANEL DISCUSSION
To Document Lives
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 7:00pm
BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF
COMMUNICATIONS, AUDITORIUM 101,
640 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
The exhibition DOCUMENT features innovative
social documentary work by Boston
area artists. Several featured artists have used
their work to explore the lives of people often
marginalized by society. Join these artists for a
discussion on what issues compel them to create
projects and how they execute their work.
Among other topics, panelists will address
how and why they select their subjects and
gain access into their worlds, and how they
decide to present those worlds to the public.
Speakers include Chris Churchill, Lisa Kessler,
and Michael Manning.
PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR:
Answering the Call (for entries): A
How-To Guide with Leslie Brown
and Jim Dow
Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 7:00pm
BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S SARGENT COLLEGE,
ROOM 101,
635 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON
$10 MEMBERS/$20 NON-MEMBERS/FREE FOR
FULL-TIME STUDENTS AND SENIORS
Back by popular demand, the PRC’s survival
guide for submitting work to a call for entry!
Find out how you can develop a strong presentation
and stand out from the masses.
Experience the jurying process first-hand
as PRC curator Leslie Brown goes through
examples and offer an insider’s perspective.
This will be a fun, lively, and insightful evening.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity
to hone your submission for the 2006 PRC
Members’ Exhibition.
FILM SCREENING
Film still from PEEPING TOM
PEEPING TOM
Co-presented with the
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Special introduction by Boston
Phoenix film critic Peter Keough
Monday, February 6, 2006, 7:30pm
THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
290 HARVARD STREET, BROOKLINE
$6.50 CCT AND PRC MEMBERS
$9.50 GENERAL ADMISSION
This seminal shocker from 1960 nearly
destroyed the career of director Michael Powell
(THE RED SHOES), but is every bit as
good as the thriller that came out just one
year later, PSYCHO. Mark Lewis grew up as a
guinea pig for his father, a biologist who sadistically
tortured his son so he could film the
reactions. Now Mark is a creepy loner whose
only companion is his trusty camera. But this
peeping Tom is not obsessed not with naked
bodies—he’s out to capture the true look of
fear. And he uses his camera to frighten and,
yes, kill the young ladies he spots through the
lens. (Michael Powell, 1960, with Carl Boehm
and Anna Massey)