Join Us for: "The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024" at ICP in New York
On October 22nd, join us live or online as we read key images from the presidential campaign. Enjoy vivid analysis from a stellar panel hosted by the International Center of Photography in NYC.
Hi All,
As the critical and grueling 2024 campaign comes down to its final weeks, we at RTP return to a favorite ritual — synthesizing the presidential race in a handful of images illuminated by some of the sharpest and most informed readers of political and cultural photography. If you’re in New York City or thereabouts, I hope you will join us at ICP, the esteemed photography institution on the Lower East Side. If that’s not possible, I invite you to enjoy the livestream.
If you’ve never seen one, The Reading The Pictures Salon is an online discussion dedicated to understanding how the media visually frames our time's critical cultural and political events. The Salon combines the eyes and voices of the world's leading visual scholars, photo editors, and other highly informed observers to analyze select edits of still images in a unique 90-minute discussion format.
Panelists:
Karrin Vasby Anderson:
Karrin Vasby Anderson is a Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University, specializing in rhetoric and political and gender communication. She studies the culture of politics and the politics of culture, examining how political identity is rhetorically constructed and contested in popular media. Karrin is coauthor or editor of three books: Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond, Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture and Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity. She has authored multiple articles on political identity and gender in popular media, including The Conversation, and has received numerous awards for her scholarship and mentorship.
Nicole R. Fleetwood:
Nicole Fleetwood is an art historian, a MacArthur Fellow, and the James Weldon Johnson Professor at NYU, focusing on art history and mass incarceration. Her award-winning book "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" has garnered critical acclaim. Nicole co-curated and co-edited Aperture’s Prison Nation, an exhibition and publication focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration. She is working on a nonfiction book about growing up in the Black Midwest. She is on the board of MoMA PS1 and The Kitchen, NYC.
Cara Finnegan:
Cara Finnegan is a Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, specializing in photography as a tool for public life. Her research examines the historical impact of photographs on social issues and public discourse. Her book-length projects examine the production, composition, circulation, and reception of photographs at specific moments in U.S. history. Cara’s latest book, Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, explores the relationship between photography and U.S. presidents. She also co-hosts the video podcast Chatting the Pictures with Reading the Pictures publisher Michael Shaw and is a board member.
Michael Shaw:
Michael Shaw is the founder and publisher of Reading the Pictures, an organization established in 2004 to analyze news photography and visual journalism. A clinical psychologist, Shaw combines training in the analysis of character styles, research in metaphor and insight, and longstanding work with creatives with over twenty years of experience studying, writing, and lecturing about visual politics and media literacy. His writing has been featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, Salon, and American Photo.
Gail Fletcher:
Gail Fletcher is a photo editor and producer at The Guardian, with previous experience at National Geographic. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Government from Cornell University and has served as a portfolio reviewer for the Eddie Adams Workshop.
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