Events and Lectures in October

When: Thursday, 5- 7pm
Where: MoCP

Please join us for a closing reception celebrating the exhibition Loaded Landscapes.

Thursday, 6:30 pm
Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Ave.
1st Floor

Exhibiting Midwest Photographer’s Project artists Anna Shteynsleyger, New Catalogue, and Alan Cohen will discuss the aesthetic, historical and philosophical issues related to photographing landscapes marked by human history and tragedy. This discussion will be moderated by Joel Snyder, professor of art history at the University of Chicago, coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry and author of numerous essays on photographic theory and history.

WHEN: Thursday - Reception 5pm - 7pm; lecture 6pm - 8pm
WHERE: Reception at MoCP; lecture in Ferguson Hall (both 600 S. Michigan, 1st Floor)

Please join us for a reception celebrating the opening of Jan Theun van Rees: One Wall Away: Chicago’s Hidden Spaces, as well as Beate Gutschow: LS/S, with a discussion by Gutschow at 6pm. Part of the Columbia College Chicago Department of Photography’s Lectures in Photography series.

WHEN: Friday, 3pm
WHERE: MoCP

Ono will discuss the physical and mental construction of real and imagined landscapes in the work of Beate Gütschow and in the practice of landscape architecture. Ono, who co-wrote the introductory text for Beate Gütschow: LS/S, is a practicing landscape architect with an MA in the history of art and architecture.