Parsons Photography Scholarship 2018 | Deadline 5/11

At the end of the Spring semester, the Photography Program awards scholarships to selected BFA and MFA Photography students. Scholarships are awarded per year level  (1st and 2nd year MFAs, rising Seniors, rising Juniors, and rising Sophomores). Non-majors and Photo Minors are not eligible for consideration. Submissions will be judged by a jury of full-time faculty. No late submissions will be considered.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

FRIDAY, MAY 11 at midnight. Winners will be announced after May 30.

Submission guidelines can be found here

If you have any questions, please feel free to email; bfaphoto@newschool.edu

 

Aperture / Parsons Artist Talk: Sam Contis | 11/7, 7PM

Image: Sam Contis, Deep Springs (2017). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

APERTURE / PARSONS ARTIST TALK: SAM CONTIS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7.00PM
APERTURE FOUNDATION, 547 WEST 27TH ST, 4TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY

Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Photography Program at Parsons School of Design of The New School, is pleased to present an artist talk with Sam Contis. Contis is a California-based artist whose first book, Deep Springs, was published in May 2017. In Deep Springs, Contis uses photography as a tool to understand the landscape of the American West in both its physical manifestation and in its mythic connotations. Responding to canonical classic photographs of the American West, such as those of Carleton Watkins and Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Contis began photographing her own version of the West through the lens of Deep Springs College, a tiny all-male school in Deep Springs Valley, near the California-Nevada border. Founded in 1917, Deep Springs is an unusual school in that it encourages physical labor as well as intellectual curiosity—students study philosophy and literature, but are also instrumental in the running of the school’s cattle ranch and alfalfa farm. Contis became closely connected to the community of young men at Deep Springs, making intimate photographs that test our expectations about the way the American West is often represented and gendered. Contis’s young cowboys are gentler and more affectionate than the Marlboro Man or John Wayne; they seem to become part of the very soil of Deep Springs, forging a oneness with the historically feminized earth. Ultimately, Contis’s project focuses on age-old photographic questions about representation, identity, and performance. The images expand our visual vocabulary about masculinity and the way we relate both to one another and to our landscapes. Contis states of the American West: “It’s always been thought of as a place where one can try on new identities, reinvent or rediscover oneself. And photography has always been used as a tool to construct new ideas about place and self, especially in the west. In that way, the work is about photography’s own role in the process of coming to understand ourselves and our environment.”

 

Sam Contis lives and works in California. Her work has been shown internationally with recent exhibitions in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and London, and solo shows at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. She is a recipient of the 2017 Nancy Graves Foundation Artist Grant, 2016 Aaron Siskind Foundation fellowship, and the Tierney Fellowship. Contis’s work is represented in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. Deep Springs, her first book, was published by MACK earlier this year, and has been shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook award. In 2018, her work will be on view in Being: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Image: Sam Contis, Deep Springs (2017). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Free for students with ID.

Confounding Expectations: Elements of Style | Oct. 24

Nadine Ijewere, Victoria’s pearl earring, 2017

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017 AT 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

The Aperture “Elements of Style” panel is part of the Confounding Expectations lecture series, which is sponsored by Aperture Foundation, the Vera List Center at The New School, and the Photography Program of Parsons School of Design at The New School.

This conversation will focus on identity, style, and dress―the codes and politics of self-presentation. Panelists will discuss connections between self-portraiture and self-styling, decolonizing the fashion image, and the role of the queer archive in the fashion industry. The conversation will be moderated by historian and author Tanisha C. Ford.

Participating panelists include Collier Shorr, Nadine Ijewere, and Ethan James Green.

Read more at aperture.org/event/aperture-elements-style-panel/

Artist Talk: Daniel Gordon

Tuesday, October 10

6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore547 West 27th Street, 4th FloorNew York, NY

$5 DONATION

This event is free for students with ID and Aperture Members.

Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Photography Program at Parsons School of Design, of The New School, is pleased to present an artist talk with Daniel Gordon. Gordon is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist who uses collage, sculpture, and photography to create fantastical portraits, nudes, and still lifes. Critics have drawn parallels between Gordon’s work and the paintings of artists such as Matisse and Cézanne, yet Gordon relies on the camera to ground his art. Photography transforms Gordon’s often fragile and ephemeral tableaux into works with solidity and permanence. Gordon has remarked that in his early work he was preoccupied with creating images that looked real, but he has since become less interested in mimicking reality. As something of a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, Gordon revels in fragmentation and fracturing, the crumpling of paper and manipulation of colors; he draws attention to the fact that Photoshop is very much a part of his process. However, Gordon will never altogether cede his work to the computer, he explains: “Without seams and faults and limitations my project would be very different. The seamlessness of the ether is boring to me, but the materialization of that ether, I think, can be very interesting.”

Daniel Gordon (b. 1980, Boston; raised in San Francisco) earned a BA from Bard College in 2004, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006. His notable group exhibitions include New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1. His work will be included in upcoming exhibitions at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida. He is the author of Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts (2013), Flowers and Shadows (2011), and Flying Pictures (2009). He is the winner of the 2014 Foam Paul Huf Award, and exhibited his work in a solo exhibition at the Foam museum in 2014. Gordon is represented by James Fuentes in New York City and had his first exhibition with the gallery, titled New Canvas, in February 2017. He is the co-director of Downstairs Projects in Brooklyn, where he lives and works.

POST-TRUTH: Parsons MFA Photo Thesis Exhibition 2017

On view August 10 – September 6, 2017
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Parsons School of Design

Opening Reception: August 24, 6-8PM

Parsons School of Design presents POST-TRUTH, an exhibition of thesis work from its MFA Photography program in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Works include photographs, computer-generated imaging, 3D imaging and printing, video, and installation pieces.

The exhibition features thesis work by: Michael DiFeo, Arash Fewzee, Annaleena Keso, Charles Park, Christian Padron, Sebastian Perinotti, Rowena Rubio, Abhishek Sharma, Sarah Wang, Jinming Zhong, and Mengting Zhou.

Under the direction of James Ramer, the studio-based Parsons MFA Photography program brings visionary students together with some of the artworld’s most influential photographers. Students are encouraged to develop their individual vision in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment and to explore related technologies, focusing on the relationship between concept and production.

For more information about the thesis exhibition, please visit post-truth-2017.com.  You may also find the opening’s Facebook Event online.

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, NYC
Gallery hours: Open Monday – Saturday, 12:00 noon – 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.
Closed Sundays in August, and all major holidays and holiday eves (including Labor Day).
Admission: Free

For more information, please contact 212.229.8919
or visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/sjdc.

Parsons and Photography Communities Remember George Pitts

Photo by Ryan Pfluger

Time | LightBox Memorializes Beloved Parsons Faculty George Pitts, who passed away this past weekend.

Members of the Parsons community contributed their stories and photos of George: including Elizabeth Renstrom (BFA Photo ’13), Eric Madigan Heck (MFA Photo ’09), Alex Thebez (BFA Photo ’11), and BFA Photo Director, Colin Stearns.

Read the full article here.

A memorial service will be held at Parsons in the coming weeks. Once plans are finalized, details will be circulated to the Parsons community.