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More lectures for the SPORT: Iooss & Leifer Exhibition period will be posted as information comes in.
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The Annenberg Space for Photography offers live programming through the lecture series entitled IRIS NIGHTS. IRIS NIGHTS is a public program offered free of charge, by reservation online on a first come first serve basis. IRIS NIGHTS brings to life the featured exhibit with hour-long lectures by the photographers featured in the Photography Space exhibits, as well as by other notable guest artists and experts. The IRIS NIGHTS programs give attendees unique access to the artists in the intimate setting of the Photography Space.
Lecture Series Schedule:
| Sat, 11.14.09 |
Walter Iooss Sporting Life |
| Thu, 12.03.09 |
Howard Schatz and Aimee Mullins Passion & Performance: A Conversation with Aimee Mullins and Howard Schatz |
| Thu, 12.10.09 |
Rick Rickman Discovering the Wonder Years |
| Thu, 12.17.09 |
Lucy Nicholson Shooting Sports |
| Thu, 01.07.10 |
Neil Leifer |
| Thu, 01.14.10 |
James K. Colton Sport Photography: The "Oooh" Factors |
| Thu, 01.21.10 |
Art Brewer Surf's Up, 40 Years from the Surf and Sand |
| Thu, 01.28.10 |
Kevin Lynch |
Thu, 02.04.10 |
Bruce Hall and Corinne Marrinan's
A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers |
| Thu, 02.11.10 |
SLIDE SHOW NIGHT: Sports Photography |
| Sat, 02.13.10 |
Neil Leifer's Return Engagement: A New Lecture |
| Thu, 02.18.10 |
Jimmy Chin's Adventure Sport Photography |
| Thu, 02.25.10 |
Mikki Willis and Laila Ali |
| Thu, 03.04.10 |
Marla Rutherford and Jessica Mendoza |
| Thu, 03.11.10 |
Steve Fine's How Sports Illustrated covered the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics |
Walter Iooss:
Sporting Life
Saturday, November 14, 6:30-8:00pm
Walter Iooss has been a professional photographer since the age of 19, shooting a cover for Sports Illustrated when he was 20. With a career spanning over four decades, he is considered to be one of the world’s most preeminent sports photographers.
He best known for his work seen on nearly 300 Sports Illustrated covers, inclusive of the Swimsuit Editions, as well as for his portraits of famous athletes like Michael Jordan and Ken Griffey, Jr., Brett Favre, Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky. In his career, he has covered virtually every major sports event, including all 43 Super Bowls.
In 1982, his project on athletes who were working their way to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles resulted in publication of the book, Shooting for the Gold. He has published a variety of other books, including Baseball, Football and Sports People, and created a masterful photo essay with Michael Jordan, Rare Air, which went on to become No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list. His latest work Athlete, which was released in May, 2008, marks his 14th book.
Howard Schatz and Aimee Mullins:
Passion & Performance: A Conversation with Aimee Mullins and Howard Schatz
Thursday, December 3, 6:30-8:00pm
Howard Schatz is a world-renowned photographer whose work, for the most part, concerns people, human motion, and the human form. His images of dance, published in the book Passion & Line, of athletes, published in his book, Athlete, and of actors, published in the book In Character: Actors Acting have been seen in exhibitions worldwide. In addition, his unique exploration of the human form in the water has led to three extraordinary books of imagery made underwater: WaterDance, Pool Light and H2O. His work can be seen in museums and galleries worldwide. Schatz's passion for photography has resulted in the publication of seventeen books, and features in magazines as diverse as Sports Illustrated and Vogue Magazine. He has a regular monthly feature in Vanity Fair. Schatz is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2009 Prix De Paris for Portraiture and the 2009 Trierenberg Grand Prix for Photography.
Aimee Mullins first received worldwide media attention as an athlete. Born without fibulae in both legs, Aimee's medical prognosis was bleak. In an attempt for an outside chance at independent mobility, doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her 1st birthday. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers.
After graduating high school with honors, she rediscovered her love of competitive sports. While attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, she set her sights on making the US Team for the 1996 Atlanta Games, and became the first woman with a "disability" to compete in the NCAA on Georgetown's Division I track team. Outfitted with woven carbon-fiber prostheses that were modeled after the hind legs of a cheetah, she went on to set World Records in the 100 meter, the 200 meter, and the long jump.
After a spread in Life magazine showcased her in the starting blocks at Atlanta, the world took notice. Aimee landed a 10-page feature in Sports Illustrated for Women, which led to numerous invitations to speak at international design conferences. Being exposed to the discourse relating to aesthetic principles, she became interested in issues relating to body image and how fashion impacted standard notions of femininity and beauty. In 1999, Aimee made her runway debut in London at the invitation of designer Alexander McQueen. She captured the attention of the fashion media and conquered the fashion magazine standards by appearing in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, W, Glamour and on the covers of ID and Dazed and Confused.
An influential voice in today's changing youth culture, she has been named as one of Esquire's "Women We Love," one of Sports Illustrated’s "Coolest Girls in Sport," and was celebrated as the "Hottest Muse" in Rolling Stone's annual Hot List.
Her film debut was a starring role in the film by contemporary artist Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3. Aimee's recent films include Quid Pro Quo and Into the Woods.
Aimee serves on numerous boards and spends much of her time assisting various non-profit organizations, most notably Just One Break, Women's Sports Foundation and as Vice-President for J.O.B., the nation's oldest non-profit employment service for persons with disabilities.
Rick Rickman:
Discovering The Wonder Years
Thursday, December 10, 6:30-8:00pm
Rick Rickman'swork has taken him around the world into extraordinary situations involving people, cultures, natural resources, and world events. A graduate of New Mexico State, Rickman garnered international recognition in 1985 after winning the Pulitzer Prize for News Photography. His work successfully crosses over many disciplines of photography to capture compelling imagery from places like the head waters of the Da Ning river in China, to the venues of Olympic competitions.
Rickman’s work has graced the covers of TIME, Newsweek, US News & World Report, People, and Men’s Journal. His stories and documentary projects have appeared in National Geographic, LIFE, GEO, Audubon, Travel & Holiday, Islands, and others. His work is represented by Corbis and NewSport Photography and advertising clients include; Allstate, ATT, Haagan Daz, John Deere, Magnavox, Phillip Morris, Yonnex Sporting Goods, Visa, Northwest Airlines, Kodak, Gillette, Nikon, and K-Swiss.
Rickman’s work has been exhibited internationally as part of traveling galleries for the Smithsonian Museum in the United States. His project of Navy Seal training was a major photographic exposition in the tenth annual VISA Pour L’ Images Festival International in Perpignan, France. He recently completed a book titled, The Wonder Years, dealing with active senior lifestyle that is published by Chronicle Books. It showcases the excitement that continued engagement in active lifestyles for people over 60 can have on longevity.
Rickman’s recent return from the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, China marks his 13th coverage of Olympic competition.
Lucy Nicholson:
Lucy Nicholson: Shooting Sports
Thursday, December 17, 6:30-8:00pm
Lucy Nicholson is a senior staff photographer with Reuters News Pictures. She is experienced in photography, video and multimedia production. She was born in London and is based in Los Angeles, having worked as a photographer in Mexico City, Chile, and Northern Ireland.
She photographs sporting events such as the Olympics, Superbowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup hockey, World Series baseball, and U.S. Open tennis. She also covers news and features in Los Angeles and beyond.
She has been awarded for her sports photos twice in the MLB Baseball Hall of Fame contest, in the 2005 China International Press Photo contest, the 2006 PDN/Nikon Awards, and the 2007 Editor and Publisher's Photos of the Year contest. She was named as one of the 'Emerging Photographers of 2006' by Magenta Publishing for the Arts.
Her photos frequently appear in publications such as Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and MSNBC.
Lucy spoke about what is involved in covering major sporting events for Reuters, and her approach to shooting sports creatively.
Neil Leifer:
Thursday, January 7, 6:30-8:00pm
Neil Leifer's photography career has spanned almost 50 years. Best known for his sports photography, Leifer's images have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, People and, most often, TIME and Sports Illustrated. Leifer's pictures have graced over 200 covers of Time Inc. publications -- 170 at Sports Illustrated, and 40 at TIME. Leifer has published 15 books. The most recent two, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball (2007) and Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football 1958-1978 (2008), both published by Taschen, are already considered classics. Leifer photographed his favorite subject, Muhammad Ali, on at least 70 separate occasions, including 35 fights. Leifer is now a full-time filmmaker. He has produced and/or directed two features, five documentaries and eight short films.
James K. Colton:
Sport Photography: The "Oooh" Factors
Thursday, January 14, 6:30-8:00pm
Great sports photography, or for that matter any genre of photography, needs to be "affective," to be "effective." A photograph needs to cause a visceral reaction to the viewer or it has not conveyed its message. This lecture will illustrate how images should make you laugh or cry or cringe or simply say, "Oooh!" It will take you through Sports Illustrated 's coverage of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing to the award-winning pages of the magazine’s Leading Off section to new ventures on the web.
Art Brewer:
Surf's Up, 40 Years from the Surf and Sand
Thursday, January 21, 6:30-8:00pm
Surf's Up journals 40 years of Art Brewer’s surfing photography as he’s documented surfing, chasing the world’s best surfer and waves around the globe. He will share his perspective from the line up in the surf and on the beach.
Brewer's photographs are known for speaking with penetrating truth, enlivened with an edgy wit. His unique colloquial voice is capable of a restrained grandeur evoking an iconic sense of "witnessing" that brings us to the forefront of our attention, alerted to something transcendent in each captured moment...
Schooled in the demanding world of surf photography where the dynamics of the coastal and near-shore environment throw everything at you. From the daunting technical challenges of glare, salt, and movement to the physical challenges of personal danger and complex logistics, this arduous training ground built Brewer’s broad journeyman's skill-set, which laid the foundation of his artistic expression.
Born in Laguna Beach, CA in 1951, Brewer is a largely self-taught photographer, his only formal instruction being a seminar with Ansel Adams. Beginning in 1968 as the principal staff photographer for Surfer magazine, Brewer has journeyed for much of his life to the world’s vast panoply of islands, where he has produced everything from journalistic coverage to celebratory location work. In addition, Brewer’s work at his Dana Point studio has yielded an exhilarating range of portraiture and staged art pieces.
Brewer’s images have appeared in hundreds of magazines including Rolling Stone , Sports Illustrated , Esquire , and Playboy . His books include the 2002 coffee table book, Masters of Surf Photography: Art Brewer and Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence .
Kevin Lynch
Thursday, January 28, 6:30-8:00pm
Kevin Lynch is internationally recognized for his growing portfolio of conceptual portraiture. At turns graphic, glamorous and graceful, Lynch’s celebrity, fashion, advertising and fine art images have appeared in museums and galleries throughout Europe and the United States, including Hamiltons Gallery in London and Christophe Van De Weghe Fine Arts Gallery in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and in such publications as Wallpaper , GQ , Harper’s Bazaar , Men’s Journal , L’Uomo Vogue , InStyle , Rolling Stone Magazine . Lynch’s commercial clients include Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Studios, NBC/Universal, Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company and Warner Brothers.
In collaboration with The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Lynch created Octagon (Powerhouse Books 2007 & trade edition DK Publishing), a photographic narrative of the mixed martial arts fighters. His current book release is titled,watercolours , is a series of abstract impressionistic nude images in collaboration with his wife Hillary.
Lynch currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, Hillary, and son, Luca.
Bruce Hall with Corinne Marrinan:
A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers
Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm
Bruce Hall has been a scuba diver and underwater photographer since 1983. As an elementary school teacher in Costa Mesa, California, Bruce often used his photography to share his knowledge of local ocean life in the classroom to engage his students. Macro, or close-up, photography enables Bruce, who is legally blind, to identify specific features of plant and animal life living along the southern California coastline as well as to study and to enjoy the undersea world after he has left it. Bruce continues to explore, using photography and technology to observe, perceive, then capture his impressions.
Hall’s work has been published in textbooks, magazines including National Geographic , as well as shown in juried art exhibitions around the United States. In the summer of 2006, Bruce won a "highly honored" award in the Nature's Best Photography Magazine Windland Rice Smith International Awards Competition. The winning photograph "Giant Kelp" was on display at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C. from October 2006 until October 2007.
Bruce lives in Irvine, CA with his wife and three children. He left teaching in 2003, and devotes his time to advocating for autism awareness, and issues related to the blind. He continues to study photography, working with a close group of creative and provocative souls to pursue future projects. Current projects include work with the Blind Photographers Guild, Sacramento, CA, continued study of the underwater landscape of southern California, and a long-term (lifelong) project dealing with his twin sons' profound autism.
Corinne Marrinan won an Academy Award in 2006 for the film A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin , and was nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy in 2001 for the documentary short On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom . Most recently, Corinne produced the short documentary Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers for HBO. She is currently a Staff Writer for the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for which she has worked for the past nine seasons. She has authored two companion guides to the popular series published by Simon and Schuster and Dorling Kindserley.
Before making the move to film and television, Corinne was a professional Stage Manager working at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Huntington Theatre in Boston among many others. Corinne also co-founded and produced for the critically acclaimed Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in Chicago. She received a BFA in Theatre and Art History from Boston University in 1995.
Neil Leifer:
Saturday, February 13, 6:30-8:00pm
Return Engagement: A New Lecture
We are thrilled to have Neil Leifer return to offer a second all new IRIS Nights lecture at the Space.
Neil Leifer's photography career has spanned almost 50 years. Best known for his sports photography, Leifer's images have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post , Look , LIFE , Newsweek , People and, most often, TIME and Sports Illustrated . Leifer's pictures have graced over 200 covers of Time Inc. publications -- 170 at Sports Illustrated , and 40 at TIME . Leifer has published 15 books. The most recent two, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball (2007) and Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football 1958-1978 (2008), both published by Taschen, are already considered classics. Leifer photographed his favorite subject, Muhammad Ali, on at least 70 separate occasions, including 35 fights. Leifer is now a full-time filmmaker. He has produced and/or directed two features, five documentaries and eight short films.
Jimmy Chin:
Adventure Sport Photography
Thursday, February 18, 6:30-8:00pm
Jimmy Chin's passion for travel, climbing, skiing, exploration and photography has taken him on break-through expeditions around the globe. He is one of the most versatile and sought after expedition photographers working today as well as a sponsored climber and skier for the North Face Athlete Team. In the past decade, Jimmy has worked with some of the greatest adventures, climbers and skiers in the world, documenting everything from the first ascents of unclimbed towers in the Karakoram to ski descents of the high peaks in the Himalayas. Jimmy shoots for a wide range of commercial and editorial clients. He was recently awarded the Rowell Award for his excellence and breadth in adventure photography and recognized by National Geographic as one of their Emerging Explorers.
Mikki Willis and Laila Ali:
Thursday, February 25, 6:30-8:00pm
Art and entertainment have always been the heartbeat of Mikki Willis' life. At the age of 25, he founded his first business endeavor, The New York/Los Angeles Theater of the Arts. "NYLA" became home to many Southern California artists who were driven to push the envelope. As Theater Director, Mikki wrote, produced and directed countless experimental productions. This is where he learned the rules, and how to skillfully break them.
In 1996 Mikki made his directorial debut with the independent feature film Shoe Shine Boys . Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau signed on as Executive Producer, traveling with the film as it toured the festival circuit, winning numerous awards and praise from top critics. The film's innovative visual style attracted the attention of major record labels and launched Mikki’s career as a music video director. His first video was nominated for a Premio lo Nuestro, the Latin equivalent of an MTV Music Award. From there, Mikki went on to direct more than 45 breakthrough Spanish-language music videos.
September 11th, 2001 marked the turning point in Mikki’s life and career. Having been inside the twin towers just hours before they fell, he helped to organize and lead a group of civilians who risked their lives to aid rescue workers. It was on the rubble of the World Trade Center that his life was forever changed. On his return to Los Angeles, he began laying the foundation for his life’s mission by founding Elevate Films, Elevate Foundation, and Elevate Film Festival, which challenge the international film community to create works of social and global importance. For this, Mikki Willis received the 2008 Conscious Life Humanitarian Award.
Laila Ali, an athlete and champion of health and fitness, is a role model for today’s healthy, on-the-go woman. The youngest daughter of Veronica Porsche Anderson, and of the legendary Muhammad Ali, she is a strong, intelligent, woman, daughter, mom and wife. She has been the major draw in women’s boxing for years as an undefeated title holder.
Laila’s attention to an overall healthy lifestyle has rendered her an expert in this field. As a champion athlete, Laila believes that photography shows the real and beautiful side of sports. Throughout her career she has tried to show that you can be strong and beautiful as a female athlete. Photography has shaped the way people look at women in sports and the way people look at women in boxing. For Laila, it has been inspiring to see all the action shots of her father depict beautifully what he went through in the ring and showed the confidence and determination in his eyes.
Laila has appeared in numerous magazines, including Newsweek , Sports Illustrated , People , Ebony , Vogue , Cosmopolitan , Marie Claire , Essence , JET , ESPN the Magazine , TV Guide , and Time . She also authored a motivational book titled Reach! She wrote the book in an effort to help young women who may need to be inspired in life. Laila presently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, former NFL player, Curtis Conway, and their son, Curtis Muhammad Conway, Jr.
Marla Rutherford and Jessica Mendoza
Thursday, March 4, 6:30-8:00pm
Marla Rutherford graduated from Art Center College of Design in December 2004, and received her BA at Boston University for Psychology in 2000.
She has been able to work both in the fine art and commercial world. Her fine art prints have been displayed in galleries all around the world including Arles, Paris, Milan, Beijing, Lausanne, New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles. Currently her work is in the traveling museum exhibition "Regeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow." The show launched in Lausanne and was followed by a exhibition at the Aperture Gallery in New York along with the published book by Aperture Press. The exhibit will travel the world for the next few years. Recent exhibitions include being one of twelve photographers in the Discovery Award exhibition hall of the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival in France curated by Christian LaCroix, a solo exhibition in Luxembourg at Galerie ClaireFontaine, and one of eleven photographers chosen to have work exhibited in the USA Network's "Characters Welcome" project which traveled to seven major cities with a published book by Chronicle in the summer of 2009.
She currently shoots for Entertainment Weekly, ESPN The Magazine, Los Angeles magazine, TIME, People, Fletcher Martin, and USA Network among others.
She lives and works in Los Angeles and Boulder.
Jessica Mendoza has been a member of the US Women’s National Softball Team since 2001 and was a key member of the silver medal-winning team at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and the gold medal-winning team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. She is one of the top hitters in the world. In 2002, Jessica graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies. In 2003, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences in Education from Stanford University as well.
In September 2007, Mendoza was officially named to the U.S. Olympic softball team, which captured silver at the 2008 Games. In July 2007, the U.S. team went undefeated, taking home its sixth consecutive Pan American gold medal. For the second consecutive year, the U.S. team captured the World Cup championship.
Jessica was recently elected President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, an organization that inspires young girls to compete in sports and encourages fair play among both boys and girls. With many charitable interests, Jessica recognizes her role in the softball world and beyond. She enjoys conducting clinics for children and is paving the path for the future of the sport.
On August 13, 2009, Jessica gave birth to her first child with husband Adam Burks, Caleb Ashton Mendoza-Burks.
Steve Fine
Thursday, March 11, 6:30-8:00pm
Steve Fine has been Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated since 1996. Fine started working at SI in 1979 as an Assistant Photo Editor. In 1983, he was at the New York Times for 6 years as Sports Picture Editor at the Sunday magazine. He returned to Sports Illustrated in 1992.
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