Credit: Sean Deckert
Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Wednesday, June 15, 2022,
2:30-3:30 pm,
The Koffler Great Room of the ASA
Dr. Senf, who published the first scholarly work on Ansel Adams in nearly 20 years in February of 2020, will talk about her research on Adams’s early years. Her scholarship revealed how Adams’ early projects led him to make his famous works and develop the signature style for which he is known. Examples of primary source documents will be shared as part of the discussion, showing how specific materials led to particular discoveries.
Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona. Her BA in Art History is from UA, and her MA and PhD are from Boston University. Her publications include Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (University of California Press, 2012). Her 2017 book, To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of photographer and videographer Betsy Schneider on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, was published by Radius Press. Senf’s talk today will focus on works studied in her book on Ansel Adams’s early years, Making a Photographer, co-published by the CCP and Yale University Press.
Preview edited by Suzanne Ferguson, Academy Village Volunteer