Image & Text: Lecture with Aline Smithson 3/27
Image copyright: Aline Smithson
Image & Text: Lecture with Aline Smithson
This will be an inspirational lecture on the theme of Image and Text (Words and Pictures) to help inspire your work!
The lecture, Image and Text, examines the relationships between photographs and words and will give photographers a broad overview of using image and text in, on, and accompanying photographs. The photographer as storyteller is an important genre in photography as words create another layer of description, sometimes as a respite from images and sometimes as a way of elevating and complicating photographs.
Date and time: March 27th, 5pm
Members: $25 (promo code here)
Non-Members: $35
Instructor Bio
Aline Smithson is a visual artist, editor, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She has exhibited widely including over 40 solo shows at a variety of international institutions and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN.
Smithson is the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. In 2012, she received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and she also received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014 and 2019, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. In 2015, the Magenta Foundation published her first significant monograph, Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography, and in 2016, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Smithson to create a series of portraits for the upcoming Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In 2018 and 2019, her work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing Prize. Kris Graves Projects published her book, LOST II: Los Angeles and included her work in SOLACE and On Death. Peanut Press released her monograph, Fugue State, in Fall of 2021. In 2022, she was named a Hasselblad Heroine.
Aline has been a juror for a host of organizations and galleries and reviewer and educator at photo festivals around the U.S.