ARTIST TALKS by the eyes

1st edition AT PARIS PHOTO NEW YORK

SERIES OF short “book focused” talks between an expert and an artist

The Eyes presents The Eyes Artist Talks by The Eyes at Paris Photo New York, with short “book-centered” interviews between an expert and a photographer in a fixed 15-minute format.  

For this New York edition, The Eyes and Paris Photo invites 6 Guest Experts and 18 artists to participate in one of the 6 sessions organized at Paris Photo New York from April 2 to 4.

3 days / 6 experts / 18 artists
2->4 April at 3pm and 4pm 

THE EXPERT GUESTS

Kathy Ryan, director of photography for The New York Times Magazine since 1987. 
Kathy Ryan published the photography book Office Romance, which began as a personal project where she published photos of the New York Times Building on Instagram.

W.M. Hunt, photo collector, curator and consultant he lives and works in New York. A founding partner of the important Hasted Hunt Gallery of Photography in Chelsea, Manhattan, and former Director of Photography at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, Hunt has been collecting photography for over 35 years.

His book “The Unseen Eye” focuses on the Dancing Bear collection, currently his largest collection of photographs.

Fred Ritchin, dean of the ICP school. Ritchin was also the founding director of the documentary photography and photojournalism program at the School of ICP.

Russet Lederman, writer, publisher and book collector. She teaches art writing at the School of Visual Arts, co-publishes The Gould Collection and is co-founder of 10×10 Photobooks.

Jean Dykstra, editor-in-chief of Photograph magazine, which is dedicated to the art of photography and offers thoughtful coverage of exhibitions, ideas, people, books, events and resources.

David Campany, British writer, curator, artist and teacher, working mainly with photography. He is the author of numerous books including Road Trips – Photographic Journeys Across America (2014), Walker Evans, the Magazine Works (2014), Gasoline (2013), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003). He has published more than 150 essays on the history of photography..

THE ARTIST TALKS BY THE EYES

AT Paris Photo New York

2020 program 

Artists X Books

Thursday, April 2

3.00pm-3.50pm

Russet Lederman, publisher and co-founder of 10 x 10 project, features

Invites

David Brandon Geeting, Neighborhood Stroll, (Skinnerbox)

Shannon Taggart, Séance, (Artbook I D.A.P) 

Clément Kauter, two rare Japanese books (Plac’art Photo)

4.00pm – 4.50pm

Fred Ritchin, Dean of the school at ICP

Invites

Marvin Heiferman, Seeing Science (Aperture)

Poulomi Basu, Centralia (Dewi Lewis / Lightwork)

Fatemeh Baigmoradi, It’s hard to kill (Self-published / Laurence Miller Gallery)

Friday, April 3

3.00pm-3.50pm

W.M. Hunt, collector & curator

invites 

Ina Jang, Utopia (Convoke)

Marcia Resnick, Re-visions (Edition Patrick Frey / Deborah Bell Photographs)

Erik Madigan Heck, Old Future (Thames Hudson / Weinstein Hammons Gallery)

4.00pm-4.50pm

Jean Dykstra, editor photograph magazine

Invites

Janelle Lynch, Another way of looking at love (Radius Books)

Casper Faassen, Re-collection (Ibasho Gallery / The (M)Éditions)

Alice Quaresma, Playground (Editions Bessard)

Saturday, April 4

3.00pm-3.50pm

David Campany, Writer, artist, curator & teacher

Invites

Anastasia Samoylova, FloodZone (Steidl / Galerie Caroline O’Brien)

Jeff Mermelstein, Hardened (Mörel)

John Divola, Chroma (Skinnerbox)

4.00pm-4.50pm

Kathy Ryan, Director of photography for NY Times

Invites

Elinor Carucci, Midlife (Monacelli Press / Edwynn Houk Gallery)

Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Minkkinen (Kehrer)

Arielle Bobb-Willis, The New Black Vanguard (Aperture)