Conversation (In-Person & Virtual)
On Political Photography: Documenting Racial Inequality in the US
Join NYU Professor Lauren Walsh, author of "Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter," and Professor Vanessa Charlot, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker at the University of Mississippi whose work focuses on the intersectionality of race, politics, culture and sexual/gender expression, for a conversation on the power of political photography in the contemporary moment. Inspired in part by photos on view at the Grey Art Gallery by Danny Lyon, an instrumental photographer during the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. In-person and virtual attendance.