Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty years. He was the second living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places; Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973 - 1993; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 – 1967; Essex County; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a career survey in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists Series; A Road Trip Journal; and, most recently, The Hudson Valley. Finally there is The Nature of Photographs, a book in which he explores how photographs function visually.

Shore's work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin and London. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York State, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.

This lecture series is presented in part by Pier 24 Photography and SFMOMA

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Cole Hansen

Senior Exhibition — Photography
February 27–March 3, 2012

Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 29, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

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Rebecca Lukens

Senior Exhibition — Photography
February 28–March 3, 2012

College Avenue Galleries, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wednesday, February 29, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

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Lecture by Jason Fulford

Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program
Friday, March 2, 2012, 7–9 pm

Letterpressed invitation to the Los Angeles installment of The Mushroom Collection (2011)

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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"Sometimes if you see something so completely unremarkable, it’s heartbreaking. I don’t know why. Sometimes if you see something so totally ridiculous and straightforward, it’s also heartbreaking. It gives you this weird feeling where your eyes swell up and you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry."
-Jason Fulford, 2005

Jason Fulford has been depicting "the simultaneous feeling of sad and funny" throughout his career. Born in Atlanta, GA, and now living in Scranton, PA, Fulford has a BA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Copenhagen, Budapest, Atlanta and Kansas City, and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Life, Newsweek, Suddeutche Zeitung, among many more.

His photographs have also graced the covers of books published by virtually every major publishing house - which is entirely fitting, as Fulford is co-founder of a book imprint himself (J&L Books, Inc., established 2001). A graphic designer and freelance commercial photographer as well as an artist, Fulford is the author of three books, the new Raising Frogs for $ $ $ (2011), published by The Ice Plant, following Sunbird (2000) and Crushed (2003).

This lecture series is presented in part by Pier 24 Photography

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