Explore the many ideas and images that have defined the photographic medium in its 175-year history, in this presentation by David Ulrich. View the highlights of the multiple histories— artistic, social, technological, and cultural—from which photography today has evolved. Emphasis is given to twentieth and twenty-first century practitioners.

David Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu. He teaches frequent classes and workshops and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Mānoa, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: The Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography.

This presentation will be held in the library’s first floor reading room.

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