Virtual Talk: Mark Ruwedel Photography Archive at Stanford

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Date: Thursday, May 27, 2021. 2:30 PM.

Location: Online via Zoom

Stanford Libraries invites you to a conversation with Photographer Mark Ruwedel, Photography Curator Ann Thomas, Emeritus Professor of History Richard White, and Photography Curator Peter Blank to commemorate the opening of the exhibition Between: Artist Books, Albums, and Portfolios from the Mark Ruwedel Photography Archive at Stanford.

Schedule:
Thursday, May 27, 2021
2:30 – 4:00 pm PT: In-Conversation with Mark Ruwedel, Ann Thomas, Richard White, and Peter Blank, followed by Q&A
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Mark Ruwedel is a Photographer and Professor Emeritus at California State University. He is represented in museums throughout the world, including the J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles County Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Canada; Stichting Foundation, Brussels; Maison europeenne de la photographie, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recent publications include Dog Houses , 2017 (August Press) Ouarzazate , 2018; seventy-two Miles Across Los Angeles , 2020 (both Mack); and Palms/Capri , 2020 (Nazraeli Press). His work has been reproduced in over 75 books and catalogs. Mark Ruwedel’s Archive is being housed at Stanford University’s Special Collections Library.

Ann Thomas is the Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada. She has organized numerous exhibitions and installations and is the author of several catalogs and publications, including American Photographs 1900-1950 from the National Gallery of Canada (2011), The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography (2014), and The Intimate World of Josef Sudek (2016). She has lectured, served on juries, and published extensively, both nationally and internationally. She is the editor of Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (1997, Kraszna Kraus Award) and The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada with John McElhone (2018, 2nd Prize – Alcuin Society). She curated the exhibition Don McCullin (2013), as well as numerous installations of works from the Gallery collection, which can be viewed online .

Richard White is a Professor of American History at Stanford, Emeritus. He is a historian of the United States specializing in the American West, the history of capitalism, environmental history, history and memory, and Native American history. His work has won numerous academic prizes, and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written several books, articles, and chapters, including The Republic for Which It Stands – The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (2017), Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011), The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (2010), and many others.

Peter Blank is the Photography Curator at the Stanford Libraries. During his twenty-one years with Stanford Libraries, Peter has guided the development of an outstanding research collection for the study of photography, acquiring important monographs, exhibition catalogs, and journal titles, as well as a large and significant collection of rare and out of print photography books, limited edition titles with prints, photography portfolios, posters, and related ephemera.

This talk is hosted by the Stanford Libraries Department of Special Collections.

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