Spotlight Talks at Boston Athenaeum

Throughout the What They Saw Reading Room at the Boston Athenaeum, invited curators, scholars and librarians will present short talks on photobooks in the Reading Room.

Thursday, 2 March
11am Kristen Gresh, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs
Lola Álvarez Bravo, Acapulco en el Sueño (Acapulco in the Dream)

12pm Karen Haas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs
Frances Benjamin Johnston, The Hampton Album

1pm Joanne Lukitsh, MassArt Professor
Julia Margaret Cameron, Lord Tennyson and His Friends

2pm Gabrielle Reed, MassArt Librarian
Sophie Calle, L’Hotel

3pm Lisa McCarty, Northeastern Photography Professor
Nell Dorr, Of Night and Day

4pm Caitlin Pereira, MassArt Library Visual Resources Director
Imogen Cunningham, Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

Friday, 3 March
11am Alisa Prince, Boston University Postdoc
Carrie Mae Weems, In These Islands: South Carolina-Georgia

12pm Billie Mandle, MassArt Photography Professor
JEB, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians

1pm Lynne Allen, Boston University Fine Arts Professor
Mary A. Bartlett, Mother Goose of ‘93

2pm Delaney Burns, Boston University MFA student
Anna Atkins, Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms

3pm Toni Pepe, Boston University Photography Professor
Jo Spence, Putting Myself in the Picture

4pm Sybylla Smith, Independent curator and educator
Donna Ferrato, Living with the Enemy

Saturday, 4 March
11am Morgan Snoap, Boston University PhD student
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Passion

12pm Renee Brown, Boston University PhD candidate
Berenice Abbott, Changing New York

1pm Jesse Dritz, Boston University PhD student
Abigail Heyman, Growing Up Female

2pm Karl Baden, Boston College Photography Professor
Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Children’s Library
Saturday, 4 March, 11am
Join us in the children’s library for a display of children’s photobooks by women.
Families with children of all ages are invited to a special story time with photobooks, rhymes and songs.