Please join the Photographic Resource Center for the last in our series of “Behind the Scenes” special events. This event is open to a limited number of people on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited for this event, so please call 617.975.0600 to reserve your place today.

The third and last “Behind the Scenes” Event
A Private Collection Becomes Public
ISM.
Thursday, June 12, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30pm
745 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
ISM, a travel and leisure marketing company, is allowing a limited number of visitors to view their never-seen-before corporate collection. Guests will be treated to a guided tour with ISM’s President and CEO, Gary Leopold, and enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on its roof-deck, with a spectacular view of the Back Bay. Gary has been an avid collector of photography and a member of the PRC Board of Directors. The price of the event is $100 per person. RSVP by June 9th.

Shown above is an image from the ISM corporate photography collection. “Anamika Bhatnager and Dennis Willette, BBC News & Access Hollywood, Thursday, October 2nd, 2003, 7-8pm.” by Matthew Pillsbury.

No, the PRC is not planning a full-blown existential dilemma (well, not all of us anyway). But we are thrilled to host a lecture by the person who helped define contemporary photography during its rise to super-stardom in those quirky postmodern years. This Thursday night (Thursday, March 20, 7 p.m.) Andy Grundberg-critic, writer, curator, educator-will deliver the second presentation in the Photographic Resource Center’s Spring Lecture Series. The talk is titled “Collecting Photographs, Collecting the World” and will address the notion of collecting as a theme in contemporary photography, along with other prevalent trends in the art world. The image above (Cindy Sherman, Untitled #21, 1985) was used on the front jacket cover of Grundberg’s book Crisis of the Real.

Click here for more information on Mr. Grundberg and his upcoming lecture.