I am giving a two-part lecture on the history of manipulated photography at Hope College in October. The lectures will be part of Hope’s senior learning program, H.A.S.P. (the Hope Academy of Senior Professionals). The first lecture, “Manipulated Photography: Before the Digital Age” will be on Thursday, October 16 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. The second lecture will take place at the same time on Thursday, October 23 and will address “Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age and Beyond.” Details about these lectures can be found on the H.A.S.P. website at https://hope.edu/offices/hope-academy-senior-professionals/courses-registration.html
I will also be giving a lecture as part of Aquinas College’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in November. The lecture is titled “On the Road: Photographing America in 1955.” In 1955, photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb were each awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel and document America—Frank by car, and Webb on foot, by bicycle, and by skiff. Frank’s journey produced The Americans, a landmark book that helped shape a new photographic aesthetic, while Webb’s images remained largely unseen until their rediscovery in 2016. My lecture will visit both projects to see what they reveal about photography and American life in the mid-1950s. The lecture will take place on Monday November 3, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Details can be found at this link: https://www.aquinas.edu/offices/olli-aquinas/course-catalog.html.