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McNair Evans in Conversation with Julian CoxPost an Event »
SFAC Main Gallery - Community Room
September 20 - September 20, 2016Info
- http://www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/
- 415-252-2244
Left: Julian Cox. Right: McNair Evans
Join us Tuesday, September 20, for a conversation with McNair Evans and Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the de Young Museum. Attendees are encouraged to view McNair Evans’ exhibition, In Search of Great Men at City Hall, independently prior to the conversation in the Veterans Building. Julian Cox joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2010 as its Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator. He was educated in Great Britain and holds a BA in Art History from the University of Manchester and an M.Phil in the History of Photography from the University College of Wales. After holding curatorial positions at the National Library of Wales and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, England, he moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue his career here. For more than a decade he worked with the photographs collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and then spent five years leading the photography program at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Cox has organized numerous exhibitions on subjects ranging from the dawn of photography’s invention in Europe in the 19th century, to contemporary practice in the United States. Julian is the co-author, with Colin Ford, of the critically acclaimed publication: Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (2003), the first catalogue raisonné produced on the work of a photographer. He is the author of many scholarly articles and books. His publications include:- Harry Callahan: Eleanor (2007); Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 (2008); Controversy and Hope: The Civil Rights Photographs of James Karales (2013), Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay (2014), and Danny Lyon: Message to the Future(2016). McNair Evans grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina and became interested in photography while studying cultural anthropology at Davidson College. He continued his education through one-on-one mentorships with highly acclaimed pioneers of new documentary practices, Mike Smith of Johnson City, TN, and Magnum Photographer Alec Soth. Soth went on to nominate Evans for the John Gutmann Foundation Photography Fellowship Award in 2013. McNair’s pictures draw parallels between the lives of individuals and universally shared experiences, and they are most recognized for a distinct and metaphoric use of light. McNair’s photographs have appeared in numerous exhibition settings and editorial publications; they were featured in Harper’s Magazine and on the cover of William Faulkner’s novel Flags in the Dust. His first monograph, Confessions for a Son, was pre-released on September 20, 2014 at the New York Art Book Fair. Evans has since been featured in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Collector Daily, Photo District News, Slate, Vice, and The Financial Times. Work from his series Confessions for a Son has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2015, Evans was named one of PDN’s 30, which recognizes emerging photographers. Evans was recently named a 2016 Guggenheim fellow in photography for his ongoing series In Search of Great Men.