Matthew Witkovsky
Foto: Avant-garde Photography

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Series Title:  Graphic Modernism Lecture Series

South Court Classrooms, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788 (directions)

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In the 1920s and 1930s, photography fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland ; provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs; and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books. In this lecture, Matthew Witkovsky aims to recover the crucial role played by photography in this period, and in so doing to delineate a central European model of modernity.

Related Exhibition:  Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935

Cost:  FREE

Program Information:
Celeste Bartos Education Center
These programs are free and open to the public, and are presented in the Library's South Court (enter from Astor Hall). Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Rooms will be opened 10 minutes prior to the class beginning. For questions, send an e-mail to SouthCourt@nypl.org or call (212) 930-9284.