SNAPSHOT OPENING CELEBRATION On Thursday, June 7, be among the first to see this special exhibition and hear directly from the curators involved in creating the show. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, live music, truffles courtesy of Best Chocolate in Town and champagne courtesy of Republic National Distributing Company.
6–7 pm / Curatorial Dialogue / The Toby Join Ellen W. Lee, Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator; Elizabeth Easton, Director of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator of The Phillips Collection; and Edwin Becker, Head of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum; for an informal discussion exploring how the introduction of the Kodak affected the work of artists ofthe Post-Impressionist era.
7–9 pm / Reception & Preview / Pulliam Family Great Hall & Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery Free for IMA Council members, $25 for general members, $35 for non members Purchase tickets by May 28 at imamuseum.org or call 317-955-2339.
SNAPSHOT PROGRAMMING TALKS
Still Pushing Our Buttons: Mass Photography in the Electronic Age August 2 / 7 pm / Location / Price
Technological breakthroughs are usually as much revelations as revolutions, satisfying powerful latent demands. Supplanting earlier miniature cameras, the 21st-century cell phone What can we tell about a photograph by camera has satisfied the need for mobility, knowing about the camera used to make it? economy, spontaneity, and rapid feedback. Boston-based photograph conservator Paul And it has amplified anxieties about security, Messier will muse on the technical aspects of privacy, and intellectual property. Join Edward the cameras and processes used by the featured Tenner, a writer for The Atlantic, for an exploration painters, spurring thought about the camera of the cultural aspects of technological change. as an indicator of the “cultural moment” of any photograph and its maker. WORKSHOP A Photograph, a Camera and the Cultural Moment Thursday, June 14 / 6 pm / The Toby / Free
Innovative Devices: George Eastman and the Handheld Camera Thursday, June 28 / 6 pm / The Toby / Free Todd Gustavson, Curator of the Technology Collection at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, discusses the technical innovations of easy-to-use cameras in the 1880s. Henri Rivière: Engineer of Shadow and Light Thursday, July 19 / 6 pm / DeBoest Lecture Hall / Free Ellen Lee, The Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, discusses artist Rivière’s experiments with photography, printmaking and the shadow theater.
Digital Capture: Techniques to Optimize Your Snapshots Saturday, June 23 / 10 am–3 pm Register by Friday, June 8 / P $75, M $60
FILM Snapshot Film Series August 9, 16 & 23 Three films explore the invention of film and the photographer’s power: Thursday, August 9 Lumière Brothers’ First Films (1896, dirs. Auguste & Louis Lumière, 61 mins.) Thursday, August 16 Blow-Up (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 111 mins.) Thursday, August 23 Bill Cunningham New York (2010, dir. Richard Press, 84 mins.)
PERFORMANCES Music in the Galleries Sundays, June 10, July 8, and August 12 / 1–3 pm P $12 (Exhibition Admission), M Free
Enjoy music in the galleries on the second Sunday of June, July, and August. In conjunction Stefan Petranek (Visual Artist and Assistant with the special exhibition Snapshot: Painters Professor at Herron School of Art and Design) and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, the IMA demonstrates the essentials of taking photopresents a series of live music from the 1890s graphs with digital cameras. Lectures and hands and early 1900s. Join us in June for classical on exercises in the IMA’s classrooms, galleries, period music performed by pianist Sylvia Maiuri. and grounds help participants understand July’s performance will feature European cabaret exposure and light metering basics, effective use music performed by the Indianapolis Saxophone of histograms, optical zoom features, and the Quartet. In August the Indianapolis Saxophone distinction between aperture, shutter speed, Quartet returns to perform classical music from and sensor sensitivity. Bring your own digital the time period. This series is presented with camera—ideally a DSLR or high quality ‘point generous support from the Myrtie Shumacker and shoot‘ model. Includes light refreshments; Lecture Fund. lunch on your own. Class size is limited; early registration recommended.To register, please call 317-923-1331 ext. 206.
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