Monday June 29, New York Times writer and former picture editor Philip Gefter will introduce his new publication, Photography After Frank at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This title presents the tale of contemporary photography starting with a pivotal moment as Robert Frank’s seminal work in the fifties; Gefter then connects the dots of photography’s transformation into what it is today. The book signing will immediately follow the lecture in the adjacent Director’s Roundtable Garden.

Photography After Frank, Essays by Philip Gefter
Lecture and Book Signing

Monday, June 29, 2009  7:00 pm

FREE

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Brown Auditorium
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
(323) 857-6000

Join author Philip Gefter at SF Camerawork in San Francisco as he discusses his latest title Photography After Frank, a collection of essays published by Aperture. Gefter traces the evolution of photography from Robert Frank’s work, The Americans, to the present day. This highly-anticipated title draws both from work published by Gefter in the New York Times as well as essays written specifically for the book. Don’t miss your chance to meet one of the most insightful contributors to the field of photography.

Photography After Frank, Philip Gefter
Lecture and Book Signing
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:00 pm

FREE

SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, California
(415) 512-2020

For those on the east-coast, Philip Gefter will be in conversation with Andy Grundberg in New York on May 17, 2009. Click here for full event details.

Click here to purchase your copy of Photography After Frank through Aperture and save 30%.

Robert Adams/Fraenkel Gallery
Colorado Springs.

Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams’s The New West signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Aperture has just reissued and released this classic and revered publication alongside Steidl’s reissue of The Americans. Both highly anticipated releases have been reviewed by TIME Magazine’s Richard Lacayo in an article titled, Two Reissued Photography Books Reconsidered in the May 26th issue. Check out Lacayo’s blog, Looking Around, where he write about books, art and architecture for TIME.