Rob Amberg
Reception and Artist's Talk
The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress
Thursday, February 5, 5:30 p.m.
Special Collections Gallery, Perkins Library, Duke University
This event is open to the public.

Rob Amberg, a longtime resident of Madison County, North Carolina, has been photographing the region since 1973. The pictures in this exhibit document the cultural and environmental impact of the construction of an interstate highway on the rural communities in its path. Amberg has received a Guggenheim fellowship as well as the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies. His book Sodom Laurel Album, published by the Center for Documentary Studies and the University of North Carolina Press (2002), won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. His latest book, The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress, is forthcoming from the Center for American Places and the University of Georgia Press.


Sylvia Plachy
Keynote Address
Friday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University
This event is open to the public.

Sylvia Plachy immigrated to the United States from Hungary with her parents in 1958 and began taking photographs in New York in 1964. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship as well as the Women in Photography International Distinguished Photographer Award in 2004. Plachy has had solo shows at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, the Queens Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Her photographs have appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Art Forum, Harper's, DoubleTake, and Granta. For over eight years the Village Voice published a weekly photograph of Plachy's; the book of this work, Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour (Aperture), won the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for the Best Publication in 1990. Among Plachy's other books are Red Light (powerHouse, 1996), Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home (Aperture, 2004), and Goings on about Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (Aperture/The New Yorker).

Photograph by Christopher Sims.






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