Brown Bag with Nina Berman,
before her lecture, "Performance and Spectacle: Constructing
the American Homeland Security State"
Thursday, January 26
Swain Hall West 220, 12.30 to 2 p.m.
Swain Hall West 220, 12.30 to 2 p.m.
(undergraduates welcome)
Her broad lens includes glimpses of "fracking" in
Pennsylvania, veterans in various settings, the production of a security state,
mega-churches, occupy protests in Times Square, and more. See:
Nina Berman is a documentary
photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social
landscape. Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected,
receiving awards in art and journalism from the New York Foundation for the
Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation and the Open Society Institute
documentary photography fund among others. Her images of wounded American
veterans from the Iraq War are internationally known with recent exhibitions at
Dublin Contemporary, the Whitney Museum 2010 Biennial, the Milano Triennale
and, Princeton University. She is the author of two monographs, Purple Hearts –
Back from Iraq, and Homeland, both published by Trolley. She is a member of
the NOOR photo collective based in Amsterdam. She lives in New York
City.
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