Austin Center for Photography will host Magnum photographer Larry Towell in April

On the 11th of this coming April, the Austin Center for Photography will be hosting legendary Magnum photographer and all-around Renaissance man Larry Towell in the auditorium at the Belo Center for New Media. Towell, who is an accomplished musician and published poet, will be performing a mixed-media event alongside fellow musician Mike Stevens, combining Towell’s work in photography, music, and spoken word for all of Austin to enjoy.

For those of you not familiar with his work, Larry Towell’s photo essays have appeared in The New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone, and other magazines, and he has published over a dozen books. Focusing on the themes of landlessness and identity, he has photographed the Contra war in Nicaragua, the civil war in El Salvador, relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, and American Vietnam War veterans who worked to rebuild Vietnam. Most recently, he has documented the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Mennonite migrant workers in Mexico, and his family farm in southern Ontario.

For more information, please go to ACP’s website (visitacp.org/) or Larry’s website (http://larrytowell.com/).

ACP Presents: Icons of Photography No. 14 – Joel-Peter Witkin

Thursday, May 24th, 7pm – An Evening with Joel-Peter Witkin – Will be held in the Blanton Museum of Art Auditorium on the UT campus.

Join us as for an intimate look at the mind and work of provocative photographer, Joel-Peter Witkin. Enjoy a slideshow, lecture and book signing!

Photographer pushes boundaries with his powerful and exploratory photographs of the human condition. He has long pursued his interest in spirituality and morality and how it impacts the physical world. Finding beauty in the grotesque, Witkin focuses on subjects cast aside by society — human spectacles and “any living myth…bearing the wounds of Christ.” Heavily influenced by art history and literature, Witkin’s expressive photographs question established notions of beauty and normality.

ACP Members get in free, just RSVP.

Non-members can buy tickets online or at the door, $15 advance, $20 door.

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Intersections in Photography No. 6 at the Joynes Reading Room

I love getting to hear photographers vocalize the issues that they face in photographing the world around them. There is something in those discussions that builds my confidence as a photographer and confronts some of the moral dilemmas that I face through the lens. There is a plethora of topics being addressed surrounding these moral issues. A recently released book, Photographs Not Taken, addresses the various reasons for not taking the shot; photographic forums consistently have a number of threads in discussion of morals of the capture; and locally, Mimi Chakarova, Scott Dalton, and Stephen Ferry are serving as a panel in the latest installment of ACP’s Intersections in Photography series, discussing human rights photography and its effect on the sociological landscape of the world.

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