Friday November 7, 2008, 4:30–6:30pm
CFA CINEMA
Free and open to the public

Reception to follow: 6:30–7:30pm
EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Center for the Arts | Wesleyan University | Middletown, Connecticut

Internationally renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald,
Eric Gottesman and Susan Meiselas join acclaimed writer and critic
David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography's role
in the world today. Wesleyan President and historian Michael Roth
will introduce the panel. A Q&A session will follow.

A reception and viewing of the exhibition Framing and Being
Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography will begin
immediately after the panel in Zilkha Gallery.

Co-sponsored by The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life,
Center for the Arts, Center for the Humanities, History and Theory,
and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

RELATED EVENT
Artist talk with Perry Bard, creator of
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Friday, November 7, noon–1pm
EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Please join New York artist Perry Bard as she talks about her
ground-breaking participatory video currently in Zilkha Gallery's Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography and shot by people around the world. You are invited to interpret Vertov's 1929 experimental documentary film and upload your own footage to Bard's website. Several days later it will be projected in Zilkha's North
Gallery alongside the original film. For additional information,
please contact Nina Felshin.

FROM LEFT: Wendy Ewald, Towards a Promised Land, 2004–06, detail
Susan Meiselas, aka KURDISTAN, screen grab from website, detail
Eric Gottesman and Sudden Flowers, Spectators in Babile, 2006, installation detail