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As a reminder, the PRC will be CLOSED and the gallery & library dark from December 20 - January 4th. The offices will be back open January 5th and the gallery open to the public on January 6th.

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Thank you all for your generous spirit for our ongoing, new online version of the PRC’s 2009 Annual Appeal. We appreciate you and thank you. There are a few more days in 2008, and every little bit counts!

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Before we head off to family and friends, we wanted to say…

Joy to the world. This holiday season we would like to share with you a few examples of how our youth program students captured their world with wonder and joy.

Click on the image above or here to see some of the kids’ images from the PRC’s Summer Photo Camp.

Happy holidays from all of the kids, small and big, Cate, Jim, Jason & Leslie

We are happy to announce our spring seminar, Contemporary Trends in Photographic Portraiture with Roswell Angier. Spots are filling up quick, so please contact the PRC at your earliest convenience if you are interested in taking the seminar.

SEMINAR>Contemporary Trends in Photographic Portraiture with Roswell Angier

$50 Members/$75 Non-Members/$30 Full-time students
Tuesday, February 17 and 24 and March 3 and 10, 2009 – 7pm
Registration required. To register, please call 617.975.0600.
Classes will meet at BU – classroom TBA

Seminar participants will have the opportunity to study photographers, movements, and trends that have shaped what contemporary photographic portraiture is today.

The lectures will deal with a constellation of artists and photographers who use the portrait as an essential element in their image making process, others that use it to reference their influences, and perhaps still another that deal with the cross-fertilization between photographers and artists in other medias.

Questions and discussions will be encouraged at each meeting, and suggested readings will be available for further study.

Roswell Angier was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley and is presently on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Angier has worked for commercial magazines and on numerous documentary projects. Books include A Kind of Life: Conversations in the Combat Zone (1976), and Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography (2007). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. Angier’s exhibitions include solo shows at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, and Gitterman Gallery, New York.

If you weren’t able to make it last night to the lecture by Larry Fink, you missed out on a real special event.  After a few canceled and delayed flights he made it to the lecture hall with 5 minutes to spare.  He whipped out his harmonica and began to serenade the packed audience until his digital slide set-up was just right.

An image of Larry Fink. Photo by Neal Rantoul

The first half of the lecture he discussed his project, The Democrats following around Barack Obama on the campaign trail and ended with a retrospective of much of the work he has done over the past 40 years.

It is not long now until we host the 2008 PRC Benefit Auction.

On Saturday, October 25th at 808 Commonwealth Avenue close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction. Above is one of the amazing images that the audience will be able to bid on. Check back to see more auction images. We will be posting them regularly. Click here for more information on the event.

Image Credit: Matt Siber, Citgo, 2003, Archival Inkjet. 22 x 18 inches, AP, signed verso

It is not long now until we host the 2008 PRC Benefit Auction.

On Saturday, October 25th at 808 Commonwealth Avenue close to 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction. Above is one of the amazing images that the audience will be able to bid on. Check back to see more auction images. We will be posting them regularly. Click here for more information on the event.

Image Credit: Brian Finke, Kate, Tiger Airways, C-Print, 9.5 x 9.5 Inches, courtesy of CLAMPART

It is not long now until we host the 2008 PRC Benefit Auction.

On Saturday, October 25th at 808 Commonwealth Avenue over 200 vintage and contemporary photographs go up for auction. Above is one of the amazing images that the audience will be able to bid on. Check back to see more auction images. We will be posting them regularly. Click here for more information on the event.

Image credit: Frederick Harris Jewell, Street Scene, Mukden, Manchuria, China, Ink jet print, 12 x 18 inches.

We’ve got a big week coming up, with some tough choices to make on Thursday. Of course, we hope you choose Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s first public lecture in Boston at the PRC. Don’t forget the leap year, one extra day of February for your enjoyment, and First Fridays deferred a week to March 7th.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Rhode Island School of Design. Visualizing Black Culture. Lecture by Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography and Imaging Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts: 7 pm. RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906. 401.454.6500. www.risd.edu

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Photographic Resource Center. Arno Rafael Minkkinen: unplugged, as always. 7pm, BU’s Photonics Center, Auditorium 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA. 617-975-0600. www.prcboston.org $10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members. [meetup]

Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. SMFA Traveling Scholars. Artists’ talk by Bill Durgin, Mathew Clay Freeman and Elizabeth H. Wallace: 11 am. Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. 617-267-9300. www.mfa.org

Harvard University Art Museums. Moyra Davey: Two or Three Things I know about Her. Lecture by Catherine Lord: 6 p.m. Carpenter Center Auditorium. 24 Quincy Street. Opening Night: 7 pm. Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

Griffin Museum. Photographs of Immigrant Station on Ellis Island from the Social Museum of Harvard University. Gallery talk by Beth Pugliano: 7 pm. 67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890. 781-729-1158. www.griffinmuseum.org

We hope to see you at as many of these great events as possible!