Picturing the Bronx on Film
Tuesday, Sep 20, 20166:30 PMEDT
| Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Ave
New York, NY, USRelated
Join a panel of photographers and scholars with decades of experience working and living in the Bronx to explore how the borough has been photographed from the mid-20th century to the present. Michael Kamberwill lead a discussion inspired by the enduring legacy of Bronx-born photographer and educator Mel Rosenthal, who mentored generations of young photographers and helped incubate much of the activist photography of the 1980s and beyond.
Ricky Flores, Bronx-based freelance photojournalist
Robert A. Gumbs, photographer, artist, & co-author of Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930's to the 1960's (2016)
Sina Nitzsche, Instructor and Researcher in American Studies at Dortmund University, Germany
Elle Perez, photographer and artist; Visiting Instructor at Williams College
Michael Kamber (moderator), photojournalist and writer; founder of the Bronx Documentary Center
This program accompanies our exhibition, In the South Bronx of America: Photographs by Mel Rosenthal.
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