February | March 2010 - Boston Photography Focus

spring lecturesLECTURE: Julie BlackmonMarch 11, 2010, 7pm$10 Members/$15 Non-members/$5 Full-time studentsFree for students of institutional member schoolsBU Photonics Center (PHO-206), 8 St. Mary’s St, Boston, MAPlease join us on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 for a lectureby photographer Julie Blackmon. Blackmon lives andworks in Springfield, Missouri. She is the recipient of numerousawards including the Critical Mass Book Award in2006, PDN’s “30” in 2007, and American Photo’s EmergingPhotographer in 2008. Her monograph, Domestic Vacationswas published by Radius Books in 2008. Blackmon isincluded in numerous collections including The GeorgeEastman House, Museum of Contemporary Photography,Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and numerousprivate collections. Blackmon appeared in the exhibitionGroup Portrait at the PRC in 2005, one of her first exhibitions.Please join us on Friday, March 12th from 5:30 – 7:30pm forthe opening reception of her exhibition at the Robert KleinGallery, 38 Newbury Street, Boston, MA.Julie Blackmon, The Power of NowLECTURE: Kenro IzuApril 15, 2010, 7pm$10 Members/$15 Non-members/$5 Full-time studentsFree for students of institutional member schoolsBU Sargent College (Sar 101), 635 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MAPlease join us on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 for a lectureby photographer Kenro Izu. Izu moved to New York inthe 1970s and soon after opened a photography studio. Itwas during his 1979 trip to Egypt that he became deeplymoved by the sacred sites that motivated him to begin hisseries of sacred places around the world. His images areplatinum contact prints shot with his custom-made 14x20large format camera.Kenro Izu, Angkor #246, Bayon, Cambodia, 1996Guest accommodations are generouslyprovided by the Hotel Commonwealth,official hotel sponsor of the PhotographicResource Center’s Lecture SeriesIzu has received numerous awards including the prestigiousNational Endowment of the Arts Award in 1984and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He has publishednine monographs including Light Over Ancient Angkor,Sacred Places, Kenro Izu: Blue, and Bhutan. His most recentmonograph Kenro Izu: A 30 Year Retrospective is due out inFebruary 2010.Izu’s images from Bhutan will be on display at theFitchburg Art Museum from January 24 – March 21, 2010.10 > www.prcboston.org