Hidden Histories of Photography Lecture with Laura Larson
21c Museum Hotel Chicago, 55 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611About The Event
Join MoCP and 21c Museum Hotel for this presentation and discussion with artist Laura Larson on working with archives. Larson will discuss her methodology and various bodies of work that engage with and utilize archive images.
Laura Larson is an artist, writer, and curator who works with 19th-century archives to create narratives that overlap personal and social histories. Photographs from her personal collection that she interpreted in her publication Hidden Mother (Saint Lucy Books, 2017) are on view in the exhibition Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection at MoCP from May 30 – August 16.
*This program will be held at 21c Museum Hotel and is free and open to the public.
