Monday, January 23, 2012

The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars Series - Nina Berman

"Performance and Spectacle: Constructing the American Homeland Security State"  

Thursday, January 26th
Woodburn Hall, 120
7-8:30 pm

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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