Anne d'Harnoncourt Symposium

"Ways of Seeing:  Rethinking Paul Strand's Modernist Vision"

Keynote Speaker:  Tom Gunning

Scholars of art history, literature, and film reconsider the work of Paul Strand, offering new insights into every aspect of his long career with particular emphasis on his extended photographic projects in Mexico (1932-34); New England (1943-46); Luzara, Italy (1953); and Ghana (1963-64), as well as his avant-garde and documentary films of the 20s, 30s, and 40s. The symposium is co-organized by Peter Barberie, the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania.

Speakers include: Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London; Rachael DeLue, Princeton University; Tsitsi Jaji, University of Pennsylvania; James Krippner, Haverford College; Anne McCauley, Princeton University; Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Hunter College; Masha Salazkina, Concordia University; and Terri Weissman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Moderated by: Peter Barberie, Karen Beckman, and Amanda Bock, the Museum’s Project Assistant Curator of Photographs.

The 2014 Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium is made possible with support from Charles K. Williams II, Gr ’78, HON ’97 and the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The symposium is organized by the History of Art Department of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in honor of the late director of the museum.