New York: In Dialogue Tina Campt & Brian Wallis

#WeekendBreak Join Tina Campt and Brian Wallis for a conversation on methodologies and critical frameworks for vernacular photography, as they discuss Campt’s recent book, Listening to Images (2017), and The Shadow Archive (2017-18), Wallis’ first exhibition in a multi-year series entitled “Imagining Everyday Life: Aspects of Vernacular Photography” at The Walther Collection.

#TinaCampt is Claire Tow and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women at Barnard College-Columbia University. She is the author of three books: Listening to Images (2017), Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012), and Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004).

#BrianWallis is Curator for the #WaltherCollection, New York / Neu-Ulm, and was formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography, New York. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Order of Things (2015), Weegee: Murder is My Business (2012), and Miroslav Tichy (2010). He is currently organizing a series of exhibitions focused on vernacular photography.