Public Symposium
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978
November 10, 2007
East Building Auditorium
Held in conjunction with the exhibition
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
Introduction
Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs,
National Gallery of Art
Snapshots at Sea: A Half-Century of Shipboard Culture in American Sailors' Photographs
John Ibson, professor of American studies, California State University, Fullerton
Offscreen and Average: 1950s Hollywood Stars and the Snapshot Aesthetic
Nancy West, associate chair and associate professor of English, University of Missouri at Columbia
The Innocent Eye? The Snapshot and the Collector
Nicholas Osborn, collector
Legitimacy and the Walls of the Dancing Bear Cave
W.M. Hunt, collector, Hasted Hunt Gallery
Snapshots and Immediacy
Stephen Shore, the Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts and director of the photography program, Bard College
Panel discussion