The Art of Photography Show Presents Natasha Egan for a Special Talk on Contemporary Photography
(NewDesignWorld Press Release Center) -- San Diego, CA, August 25, 2010 -- The sixth annual Art of Photography Show judge, Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, will describe her curatorial decisions for this year's exhibition selection. Ms. Egan was responsible for selecting the top 111 images to be included in the world-class exhibition that will run from August 28 to November 7. This year’s competition attracted nearly 14,000 entries from 67 countries – the largest number of countries represented to date.
A key topic Ms. Egan will discuss is how these images fit into contemporary photography as a whole today. The presentation will include projected images using a high resolution digital projector. We are expecting a very full house, so please arrive a few minutes before 11:00 am.
When: Sunday, August 29th 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Where: Lyceum Theatre Gallery, in Horton Plaza, Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego.
Cost: Free
The Opening Reception Gala is scheduled for Saturday, August 28 from 6pm to 10pm. An estimated 1,500 people from all over the world will be in attendance, including most of the exhibiting artists. A total of $10,000 in cash awards will be presented that night to the top 15 artists chosen by Ms. Egan.
For more information about the Art of Photography Show, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.
About the Art of Photography Show
The mission is to provide a truly "artist oriented" show and to create a world-class presentation of photographic art. This is the sixth year of this annual photographic exhibition. The Lyceum Theatre Gallery is located in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter and is open and free to the public seven days a week. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 6:00 p.m. on the weekends. For more information about the exhibition, please visit www.artofphotographyshow.com.
Natasha Egan is Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Egan has organized numerous international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments; Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture; and The Road to Nowhere? for Fotofest 2010 Contemporary US Photograph with eighteen US artists. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies.
The images at the top of this document are shown here courtesy of Marie Cecile Thijs, Frank Meyl, Michael Ten Pas, Julia Cybularz and Marcus Buck.
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