The New York Public Library

 

presents

 

An Artist Dialogue Series Event

 

Survivors in Ukraine

 

Stephen Shore

 in conversation with

Jane Kramer

moderated by Raymond Sokolov

   

Wednesday November 4, 2015

6:00 p.m.

 

Celeste Auditorium

South Court, Lower Level

 

The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street

New York, NY 10016

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(directions)

 

Auditorium doors open to the public at 5:30 p.m.

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation

 

Prolific photographer Stephen Shore and The New Yorker writer, Jane Kramer converse about the release of Shore’s new book, Survivors in Ukraine. The discussion is moderated by journalist Raymond Sokolov.

 

Stephen Shore’s Survivors in Ukraine (Phaidon, October 2015) presents a powerful and haunting visual record of Ukraine’s Holocaust survivors. Releasing, 70 years after the liberation of the camps, this remarkable volume features photographs of 35 Holocaust survivors in their homes alongside images of the contemporary Ukrainian landscape. An essay by Jane Kramer provides a historical context of Ukraine’s modern history with an emphasis on the place of the Jews within this history. 

 

Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the end of event.

 

Stephen Shore is one of the most influential photographers living today. His photographs from the 1970s, taken on road trips across America, established him as a pioneer in the use of color in art photography. He has been director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, since 1982.

 

In 1971 Shore became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photographs have since been exhibited internationally, including the Tate Modern’s first exhibition of photography Cruel and Tender in 2003. His work has been collected by museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art.

 

Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964 and has written the Letter From Europe since 1981, covering various aspects of European culture, politics, and social history. Previously, Kramer was a staff writer for the Village Voice; her first book, Off Washington Square, is a collection of her articles from that paper. She has published two collections of essays from The New Yorker —“Allen Ginsberg in America” (1969), and “Honor to the Bride” (1970), which was based on her experiences in Morocco in the late nineteen-sixties.

 

Raymond Sokolov is on the planning board of the Town of Gardiner (NY). where he can be found either on the seat of a Scag Freedom Z mower or reading books he heard about during a 45-year career in journalism.  He has two sons, three granddaughters of voting age, a wife who is an expert in Spanish colonial art, and a Ph.D in classics from Harvard (2005). Along the way, he was a Paris correspondent and book critic for Newsweek, food editor of The New York Times and, for 19 years, ran the Wall Street Journal’s Leisure and Arts page.  He visited Ukraine in 2013 with the idea of writing a book on the city of Lviv, but Vladimir Putin got in the way.

 

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.

 

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