See below for our presenters at VSW’s 2010 Photo-Bookworks Symposium including artists, publishers, curators, moderators, sponsors, publications, and more
Afterimage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism provides a forum for the discussion and analysis of photography, independent film and video, alternative publishing, multi-media, and related fields.
Theo Baart is a Dutch photographer who documents urban and rural landscapes for projects that dialogue with other disciplines such as environmental planning. His photographs have been exhibited at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Nederlands Foto Museum Rotterdam, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, and Aperture Gallery, NYC. Many of Baart’s projects are produced as photo-bookworks including Territorium (2003), Eiland 7 (2008), and most recently Posities | Positions (2010) His collaborative books with Cary Markerink include Nagele (1988), Snelweg: Highways in the Netherlands (1996), and Nagele [revisited] (2006). Baart and Markerink are co-founders of Ideas on Paper, publishers of photo-bookworks since 1996.
Francois Deschamps is a photographer and book artist who has produced over a dozen artists' books most recently Drones published by Visual Studies Workshop Press (2010). His photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently a full professor in the Art Department at the State University of New York in New Paltz, NY.
JAB The Journal of Artists’ Books, engages with the field of artists’ books by means of critical discourse and creative exploration of the intersections of book arts, artists’ books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, printmaking, graphic design and other book-related creative endeavors.
Jason Fulford is an artist, graphic designer, and freelance commercial photographer. His work frequently appears in Harper's and The New York Times Magazine as well as on the dust jackets of books by Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Terry Eagleton, Ha Jin and many others. He is the author of three books, Raising Frogs for $ $ $, published by The Ice Plant, Sunbird, and Crushed. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and Scranton, PA, and is cofounder of J&L Books, a non-profit publisher of previously unpublished or rarely seen work by contemporary artists.
Susan kae Grant is Head of Photography and Bookarts at Texas Woman’s University and teaches workshops at the International Center of Photography. Since 1975 she has produced 13 limited edition handmade books under the press name, Black Rose Press. Her works are included in numerous public collections including George Eastman House, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Tokyo Museum of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Victoria and Albert Museum National Library.
Gregory Halpern grew up in Buffalo, NY where he makes most of his photographs. He has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. He recently published Omaha Sketchbook, a limited-edition artists’ book with J&L Books, voted one of the top ten photo-books of the year on Photo-Eye. These Book Walk Books will publish a book of his new work in 2010. He currently lives in Rochester, NY where he teaches Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
skúta aka Skúta Helgason’s artistic practice includes diaristic documentation in a variety of media including photography, books, installations and texts. His ongoing book project, 52 books/52 weeks is to create more than 52 short edition books in one year. skúta has exhibited widely at international galleries, museums and book fairs and has been the curator of artists’ book exhibitions for the WPA, Washington D.C. and other organizations. He is founder and director of Stop Over Press, Reykjavik–New York, and the creative consultant for D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. advising on acquisition of artists’ books and contemporary art catalogs for international distribution. In addition, he is the Executive and Creative Director for ARTBOOK@ locations PS1, Visionaire, detour, RARE, Bronx Museum, Art Basel Miami, and others.
Douglas Holleley PhD has conducted classes and workshops throughout the United States, Australia and the UK. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, Digital Book Design and Publishing and a series of photo–texts known collectively as Photo Developing. His books and artworks are in many private and public collections in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles in 1965, spent his early years as a ski racer in the Pacific Northwest, and currently lives and works in upstate New York. His photographs have been exhibited at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica, the Photographers' Gallery in London, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and Roth/Horowitz Gallery in New York. His work has been published in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Blind Spot, Nest
and DoubleTake. He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and the author of Alpine Star, Postcards and Other Nature. Jude's forthcoming book, emmett, will be published by The Ice Plant in late 2010. He is represented by Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica.
Jeffrey Ladd is Creative Director of Errata Editions. He studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and teaches photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. His photographs have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, The Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, The Museum of the City of New York and the Howard Greenberg Gallery among others. His photographs are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of the City of New York. He splits his time between photographing and writing about photography. In 2007, he created 5B4-Photography and Books, a website dedicated to discussing and reviewing photography and art-related publications.
Nathan Lyons is the founding Director Emeritus, Visual Studies Workshop (1969-2001) and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SUNY Brockport. He holds honorary Doctorates from Rhode Island School of Design (2004), Corcoran School of Art (1995), and Alfred University (2006). Lyons has a B.F.A. in Literature from Alfred University. He served as Associate Director and Curator of Photography at the George Eastman House International Musuem of Photography and Film (1961-1969) and was named Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education (1997). Lyons has exhibited extensively since 1956 with work represented in numerous collections. He was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography in 2000. Click here to see an excerpt from VSW's Audio Archive: Nathan Lyons and Alex Sweetman in conversation about the book Notations in Passing from 1975.
Mike Mandel has self-published nine projects including co-authoring the seminal photographic work Evidence with Larry Sultan. For the past thirty years he has been an artist working in photography and public art. Since 1993 he has received twenty public art commissions throughout the United States, including works for the San Francisco Airport, the Atlanta Federal Center and the Charlotte Arena. In 2005 his work was exhibited in the Berlin Biennale and recently in 2009, at PhotoEspaña in Madrid.
Stephen Marc, photographer and art professor at Arizona State University’s Herberger College of Fine Arts, is recognized for his unique and powerful photographic montages that explore the African Diaspora. Marc’s current project, Passage on the Underground Railroad, explores North America’s Underground Railroad, which moved escaped slaves to freedom. In the past four years, he has taken more than 30,000 photographs of people and places in 21 states and Canada culminating in a book and exhibition.
Cary Markerink is a Dutch photographer and writer looking at the effects of culture on the landscape. In 1981 he was cofounder of Fragment Publishers. In 1991 he received the Amsterdam Maria Austria price for his landscape photography. He is the author of numerous photo-bookworks including collaborative projects with photographer Theo Baart. Together they founded Ideas on Paper in 1996. Markerink’s most recent book, Memory Traces, relates ideas about landscape, culture, history and memory through large format photographs made in Sarajevo; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Berlin, Bitterfeld-Wolfen and Ronneburg; Bikini Island and Nam Island; Chernobyl; Khe San and My Lai along with excerpts from his travelogues, “written photographs,” and fiction.
Danielle Mericle is a photographer and video artist based in Ithaca, New York. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at venues such as White Columns in New York City, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. Her work was recently exhibited in a survey of contemporary video art at The Columbus Museum. Mericle is the author of Seneca Ghosts, noted by Alec Soth as one of the top-10 photography books of 2008. Her current book project, entitled Archive, consists of photographs shot at various sites in Peru, and is a meditation on the complex relationship between history, knowledge, and power.
Scott McCarney has been making books as works of art for close to thirty years. His bookworks explore many media, from offset and digital printing to sculptural installation. He lectures, teaches and exhibits internationally and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work for the past several years has utilized print–on–demand technology with intensive pre– and post–production consideration.
David Schulz is an artist, designer, and teacher who lives in Walla Walla, Washington where he teaches in the Art Department at Whitman College. Schulz is the author of several books including Variations of a Fall, Non-Identifying Social Genetic Report, and The Mirror. Schulz curated the exhibition “Photo–Bookworks” for the Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College in the spring of 2010.
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2010, the Walker Art Center will be exhibiting and touring a large survey exhibition of Soth's work in the United States. Soth's first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) and The Last Days of W (2008). In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom.
Alex Sweetman teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has helped assemble one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of 19th and 20th century photography books in the world. In 1985 he mounted the first comprehensive exhibition of photography books, "Photographic Book to Photobookwork," nearly 400 books and 100 photographs at the California Museum of Photography. Click here to see an excerpt from VSW's Audio Archive: Nathan Lyons and Alex Sweetman in conversation about the book Notations in Passing from 1975.
Elisabeth Tonnard is a Dutch artist and writer working in The Netherlands and the US. Her books are included in the collections of MoMA Library, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Columbia University (Rare Book and Manuscript Library), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Special Collections in the John M. Flaxman Library), Florence Loewy, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Museum Meermanno, National Library of The Netherlands, National Library of Belgium, Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Cologne, Visual Studies Workshop, and in numerous private collections.
Anne Wilkes-Tucker has organized more than forty exhibitions as curator of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and elsewhere, including retrospectives for Brassaï, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, George Krause, Ray K. Metzker, and Richard Misrach as well as surveys on Czech avant-garde photography, a survey of the history of Japanese photography, and a selection from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. In 2006, Tucker received a Focus Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Griffin Museum of Photography, she won the International award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 2005, and in 2001, Time magazine honored Tucker as "America's Best Curator.”
Carla Williams is an important contemporary researcher of mostly photographic, female artists of the African diaspora. She is the editor of exposure, the Journal of the Society of Photographic Education and is co-author of The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, with Deborah Willis, published by Temple University Press, 2002. Williams preserves and promotes the history of African diaspora photographers and subjects in publishing through the online library, discussions, and book reviews on 81 Press and carlagirl.net. She is an assistant professor in Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.
Chantal Zakari is an artist and a designer. She created hyper narratives for the Web in the early 90s. In 1998 she published "The Turk and The Jew" with her husband Mike Mandel. In 2005 she published "webAffairs" a photo/text narrative of her experiences in virtual space. In 2010 Mandel and Zakari published "The State of Ata" a visual book about the social themes that define contemporary Turkey and specifically examines the imagery of Ataturk it's revolutionary leader. She teaches in the Text & Image Arts area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
from Snelweg by Theo Baart and Cary Markerink
from Crushed by Jason Fulford
from Omaha Sketchbook by Gregory Halpern
from the forthcoming emmett by Ron Jude
from Return Your Mind To Its Upright Position by Nathan Lyons
from Memory Traces by Cary Markerink
from Seneca Ghosts by Danielle Mericle
from Eternal Return in Walla Walla by David Schulz
from Mood: Potential by Elisabeth Tonnard