Photo by Robert Capa

This week at NYU, the International Center of Photography and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will present a two-day symposium Committed Journalism, focusing on Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and Chim (David Seymour)’s photo reportage of the Spanish Civil War as well as photojournalism in a broader geographical and historical context.

The conference will kick off with panel discussion Photojournalism: Current Commitments with Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Todd Heisler, New York Times Deputy Picture editor Meaghan Looram, Wall Street Journal Photo Editor Julien Jourdes, Photojournalist Julie Platner, MediaStorm founder Brian Storm, Photojournalist Walter Astrada and panel moderator Fred Ritchin of NYU. The Second day of the conference will feature respective panel’s The Mexican Suitcase and The Contents of the Suitcase featuring Curator of ICP exhibit The Mexican Suitcase Cynthia Young, ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s Susie Linfield, ICP Associate curator Kristen Lubben, curator and scholar Carole Naggar, Oberlin College proffessor Sebastiaan Faber and panel moderators Jo Labanyi and Juan Salas of NYU. The conference will close on the second day with panel Photojournalism for Humanitarian Works featuring Doctor’s Without Border’s Jason Cone, Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson, Human Rights Watch’s Emma Daly, and photojournalist Moises Saman.

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Comitted Photojournalism
Day one: 6:00pm – 8:30pm December 2nd
Day two: 2:00pm – 8:30pm December 3rd, 2010

NYU
The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201
New York, New York

photo by Paul Strand

The long awaited publication of Paul Strand in Mexico brings together photographs and documents never before published from a pivotal time is this seminal artist’s career. On the occasion of the release of this comprehensive volume and exhibition on view now, Aperture in association with The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center at Haverford College has organized a two day symposium curated by scholar James Krippner, to take place at Aperture along with screenings of Strand’s films Manhatta & Redes taking place at the Cantor Film Center, NYU. This series of panels features prominent scholars and practitioners from the field discussing art historical context for this body of work by Strand from a number of perspectives. Join for any or all of the following discussions and events:

Friday, October 15
2:00 PM - Introduction by James Krippner

3:00 PM – Photographs as Historical Sources
Linda Gordon + John Mraz

4:30 PM – Strand, Mexico and Modernist Photography
Ester Gabara + Fred Ritchin

7:00 PM – Screening of Paul Strand’s Manhatta & Redes at the Cantor Film Center, NYU

Saturday, October 16th
2:00 PM – Photography in Mexico and United States Southwest
Anne Hammond + Leonard Folgarait

3:30 PM -Strand in the History of Photography
Mike Weaver + William Williams

5:00 PM – Final remarks by James Krippner

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

Cantor Film Center, NYU
36 East 8th Street
New York, New York

All events are FREE and open to the public.

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Click here to view new book Paul Strand in Mexico