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The New York Public Library presents An Art Book Series Event You Should Have Heard What I Seen James Hamilton and Thurston Moore Tuesday December 14, 2010 6:00 p.m. Margaret Liebman Berger Forum Room 227 (2nd Floor) Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue 5th 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. Legendary photographer James Hamilton is first opening his extensive archive of materials, containing 30 years of photos from his time as staff photographer at publications such as Village Voice and Harper's Bazaar, in You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen, a publication with musician Thurston Moore's newly founded Ecstatic Peace Library. Moore hosts this conversation with James Hamilton about some of his experiences covering the New York film, art and music scenes of the last several decades. Throughout the heady years of New York 's 1960s and 70s music scenes, James Hamilton was on hand to observe and photograph some of the most significant bands, musicians and performances of the twentieth century. The book You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen reveals across 300 pages a trove of previously unpublished black-and-white photographs of some of the most recognizable faces in music. Copies of You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen are available for purchase and signing at the event. James Hamilton began as a painter studying at Pratt Institute in 1964. He spent the summer of ’66 working as an assistant to a fashion photographer and did not return to school, deciding instead to make photographs of his life in New York City. In 1969 he spent five months hitchhiking and taking pictures throughout America . After showing photos from a Texas music festival to editors at Crawdaddy! —the seminal rock ‘n’ roll publication—he was hired as staff photographer. This launched a forty-year career of staff positions held at The Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer. He has worked on assignment for many magazines including Vanity Fair , New York Magazine , The New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and on set with directors George Romero, Francis Ford Coppola, Bill Paxton, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach and Andrew Jarecki producing film stills. You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen is his first monograph. Thurston Moore is best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He is also a tirelessly prolific collaborator and solo artist, as well as the force behind Ecstatic Peace! Records and the recently launched Ecstatic Peace Library. His books include In Silver Rain with a Paper Key (Ecstatic Peace Library/Records), Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture (Universe), and, with Byron Coley, No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York . 1976-1980 (Abrams) In its second season the program series An Art Book, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned and emerging artists, critics, curators, designers, historians and writers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~