Above image entitled “Gut-Wagon Graveyard” by Daniel W.Coburn will be exhibited in PhotoSpiva 2008
Celebrating its 32nd year, Spiva’s acclaimed national competition results in an exhibition of excellence, a “snapshot” of contemporary photography featuring notable works by U.S. amateurs and professionals.
Two of my images were chosen for display in this exhibition by juror Rod Slemmons.
PhotoSpiva 2008
April 19 – June 1, 2008
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts
222 W. 3rd Street
Joplin, M0 64801
Phone: 417.623.0183
Rod Slemmons
Rod Slemmons has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago since 2002, where he teaches undergraduate photo history and graduate theory seminars in the Photography Department. He also teaches graduate courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has curated six exhibitions at MOCP, including “Persistence of Vision: The Career of Paul Berger.”
Rod previously taught photography, history of photography and graduate Museum Studies for 12 years at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was the National Chair of the Society for Photographic Education from 1990 to 1994. He was named Honored Educator at the SPE National Conference in Miami in 2007. Before and during his time at the University of Washington he was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum for 14 years, producing 35 exhibitions and numerous catalogs, including “Like a One-Eyed Cat” in 1989, the first retrospective of Lee Friedlander.
Rod has an MA in literature and writing from the University of Iowa. He trained as a graduate intern at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House while working on an MFA in Photography and Museum Studies from the Rochester Institute of Technology, 1976–78.
PhotoSpiva 2008 Juror’s Lecture
Presented in cooperation with Missouri Southern State University
“Photographers Without Borders: Medium, Media, Meditation”
Rod Slemmons will discuss his criteria for selection and the context of contemporary photography.
2:00 pm Saturday, April 19
Webster Hall Auditorium
Webster Hall
Missouri Southern State University
3850 Newman Road
Joplin, MO 64801
Admission by voluntary contribution.
Reservations requested: 417.623.0183
April 10, 2008 at 3:38 am |
Just “ofal”!
Congratulations again!
April 10, 2008 at 4:41 pm |
I am a little grossed out by this image, however I think it is powerful. The skull with all the insides gathered beside it makes me think this animal just fell apart. As if nature just took over. Life in motion. It’s also a little creepy with the boy standing there in a proud position. This imagery reminds me of Francis Bacon. Congratulations Dan.
April 10, 2008 at 5:55 pm |
Congrats on getting into another show! That image seems like a slight departure from your usual stuff, but it’s incredible (and slightly disturbing).
April 10, 2008 at 6:00 pm |
Thanks guys. This image is one of several images that I shot when some friends decided to buy hogs to slaughter and butcher them for food. (There were professionals involved) It was a very disturbing experience, but I felt it was worth documenting. Not something the everyday person gets to witness or experience
June 5, 2008 at 12:14 pm |
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