Looking at Pictures: One Plus One Makes X with Eric Baden and Diana Stoll
Recorded: Thursday, July 30th, at 7 pm ET
Faced with an uncountable number of incoming images every day, how may we consider them? What meaning or value do photographs hold today—if any? These questions seem particularly poignant in this hermetic moment. Join photographer and educator Eric Baden and photobook editor Diana Stoll as they discuss a selection of images from the Six Feet Photography Project archive. Drawing from the medium's history, Eric and Diana seek (or fabricate!) avenues of approach—formal, conceptual, emotional, intuitive, historical—from the photograph to its purpose.
This is a rare opportunity to see a live curation of photographs from two extraordinary curators.
Diana Stoll edits books for the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Aperture Foundation, and many other cultural institutions. Her critical writings have appeared in publications including Hyperallergic, Burnaway, and Aperture magazine, where she served as Senior Editor for more than a decade. She is a contributor to A World History of Photography (Abbeville, 2019) and Women in Motion (Éditions Textuel/Rencontres d'Arles, forthcoming).
Eric Baden is professor of photography at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. He is the founding director of photoplus, a photo-based multidisciplinary arts event held in Asheville, North Carolina. An independent curator and regular reviewer of publications on art and photography, his photographs are included in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the Westlicht Museum for Photography in Vienna.
