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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)
education | 5 LECTURE ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL Thursday, February 16, 7:00pm Antonin Kratochvil, Bush Meat Market, 2004, from the book [VANISHING]. BOSTON UNIVERSITY PHOTONICS CENTER, AUDITORIUM 206, 8 ST. MARY’S STREET, BOSTON $10 MEMBERS/$15 NON-MEMBERS/FREE FOR FULL-TIME STUDENTS AND SENIORS In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the PRC presents a new lecture series featuring nationally and internationally renowned artists working in photography and related media and photo-historians. Czech photographer Antonin Kratochvil, a founding member of VII Photo Agency and one of the premiere photo-journalists of our time, kicks off the series with a discussion of his work. Over the past 25 years, his assignments have taken him around the world and on diverse assignments. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Conde Nast Traveler, Geo, Mother Jones, Smithsonian, Time, Natural History and the United Nations Choices magazine. His books include Broken Dream, Incognito, and Vanishing (read PRC Education Coordinator Michael Christiano’s book review on page 9). He has earned numerous awards including the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography for the “Journalist of the Year” (1991), the Leica Medal of Excellence for outstanding achievement in documentary (1994), the World Press Photo winner in the Portrait Series (1997), and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (1998) administered by Columbia University under a grant from Life magazine. Read Michael Christiano’s review of Kratochvil’s book on page 9. Antonin Kratochvil, photographed by Matt Bruggmann
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