Landscape Photographer Robert Dawson as guest lecturer.
Robert Dawson, a renowned landscape photographer who worked with Ansel Adams, gave a lecture at University of the Pacific in the Art History Lecture Hall Room next to the Reynolds Gallery April 10th.
Dawson's speech coincided with the closing of the photo exhibit "In Dialog with Ansel Adams" at Reynolds Gallery on Pacific's Stockton campus. Dawson spoke about working with Ansel Adams' "Friends of Photography" organization in the late 1970s, as well as the impact Ansel Adams had on the development of his own photography.
"Robert Dawson is one of the best known photographers in the Western United States," said Jennifer Little, a professor of photography at Pacific. "We are pleased that he will be on campus to discuss his relationship with Ansel Adams and present his photographic work documenting environmental issues in California."
Dawson's photographs have been widely exhibited and are in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art, (Smithsonian Institution) Washington, DC; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Center For Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and the Carpenter Center For the Visual Arts at Harvard University.
Dawson, a professor at Stanford, has published six books of his photographs, including several about water management issues in the Western United States. He has won numerous awards, including the New York Times' Best Book of the Year Award and The Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize from the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University. Dawson's newest book, "When Government Worked: The Legacy of the New Deal in California," intends to "show the forgotten legacy and lasting impact of the New Deal throughout California. The focus is on the built environment as a physical manifestation of the great ideals of the New Deal. The project hopes to show a model of good government from the past that could serve us again in the future."
You can read detailed descriptions of Dawson's projects and books on his web site at http://www.robertdawson.com