The New
York Public L i b r a r y
presents
Architectural Explorations in Books
Lynn Davis and Alan Weisman
Wednesday December 9,
2009
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman
Berger Forum
Room 227 (2
nd
Floor)
Stephen
A.
Schwarzman
Building
476
Fifth
Avenue
5
th
Avenue
and
42nd Street
New York
,
NY
10018
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
(directions)
Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE
and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
This
conversation between internationally celebrated photographer Lynn Davis and
best-selling author Alan Weisman focuses on the architectural legacy of the
space industry. The topics to be discussed… What should be done to document and
preserve these extraordinary structures from abandonment and ruin? Could
preservation and restoration make some of these off site locations into major
architectural attractions and destinations?
For
Space
Project
Lynn Davis traveled to historic sites in
Kazakhstan
,
Russia
,
Germany
, French Guiana, and
the
United States
.
She received special permission to visit Baikonur in
Kazakhstan
, a leading launch site
since the 1950s.
Davis
emphasizes the bold modernism of these sites while evoking the presence of
outdated technologies. The technical achievements of the prints, which use the
most advanced processes in color printing, balance the marvels and monuments
captured in the photographs.
A
graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and former apprentice to Berenice
Abbott,
Lynn Davis
has been a
photographer for more than thirty years. Her prints are included in the
permanent collections of the
Museum
of
Modern Art
,
Guggenheim
Museum
,
and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
and J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas
Museum of Art; and Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is represented by Edwynn
Houk Gallery in
New York
.
Alan Weisman
is the
best-selling author of
The World Without
Us
(2007), and a finalist for the National book Critics Circle Award. His
writing has also appeared in
Harper’s
,
the
New York Times
,
Atlantic Monthly
, the
Los Angeles Times
, and elsewhere.
Architectural
Explorations in Books
is a new series of engaging
programs delving into the critical role that architecture books play in the
understanding of contemporary urban developments and structures. The events
feature book presentations and discussions by world acclaimed architects,
critics, curators, photographers and writers.
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