28 March 2018: 10×10 enjoyed an evening of photobooks with photobook-maker and collector Stefan Vanthyune from Belgium. Librarian, educator and artist Deirdre Donohue gave a “Spotlight Talk” on Dare Wright. A big thank you goes to Flowers Gallery in New York City for hosting!
Stefan Vanthuyne is a writer, researcher and photographer. He publishes books and writes about photography and photobooks; he is a member of the editorial board of Forum+, a researcher on photobook culture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (and a member of its photography group, Thinking Tools), and in 2017 Vanthyune began a project on contemporary Belgian photobooks, Belgian Platform for Photobooks.
With this salon, 10×10 added a new format to our series called Spotlight Talks, which involves invited curators, collectors and librarians presentations on one or two “special books” that they find of interest. Our first Spotlight Talk was with Deirdre Donohue speaking about the photographer/book-maker Dare Wright (1914-2001). An unabashed Wright enthusiast, Donohue exclaims, “Wonderful photobooks—I would like everyone to see them and to know about Dare Wright”.
Deirdre Donohue is a librarian, educator and artist. She is Managing Research Librarian at the New York Public Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division, Adjunct Faculty at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and at the ICP/Bard MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies. Prior to NYPL, Deirdre spent half her career at the International Center of Photography and half at Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
