Dr. Ali Behdad, UCLA literature professor and director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, gave a talk titled “The Right to Look: Photography and Colonial Vision” on Nov. 14 at Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theater.
Tag: Photography
To look from above: ‘The Instrumental Image: Aerial Photography as Problem and Possibility’ at the Benton
The exhibit “The Instrumental Image: Aerial Photography as Problem and Possibility,” on display at the Benton Museum from August 2023 to January 2024, examines the historical use of aerial photography in war, imperialism and surveillance.
Ways of Seeing: Sally Mann’s memory-haunted landscapes
Photographer Sally Mann captures the mythology of the American South in romantic black-and-white landscapes. Art columnist Nadia Hsu PO ’27 speaks to Mann’s work and what photography can tell us about memory.
Photographer John Choi PO ’24 on resisting the ‘certainty trap’
Contracted by Interscope Records and official tour photographer for the alternative indie artist Hayd, John Choi PO ’24 is exploring his passions and a more ‘uncertain’ trap.
Let’s BeReal: How 5C students are capturing campuses this year
Released in 2020, the social media app BeReal is buzzing around campus, not only with its notifications to snap a picture but also with questions of its authenticity.
Hidden gem study spots on campus offer a fresh perspective
Want a fresh perspective? Try these often overlooked study spots.
Scripps student shines a light on young artists with Sunbow Zine
Sunbow Zine, created by Ella Bailey SC ’25, features curated artwork from young artists around the world.
Harvey Mudd’s Sprague Gallery features ‘Accounts of Their Times’ student show
Harvey Mudd College’s Sprague Gallery opened the student art exhibit “Accounts of Their Times,” which features a wide variety of photographs from art professor Ken Fandell’s course “Photography.”
Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs explore a lost LA subculture
If you went to a drag bar in Los Angeles in the 1980s or ’90s, you might have seen a buoyant Reynaldo Rivera working the room.
‘Mutuality in Dichotomy’: Come for more than the Kandinsky
The Pomona College Museum of Art’s “Mutuality in Dichotomy: Photography from the Permanent Collection,” which opened Sept. 4, is the fifth in a series of student-curated exhibits featured by the museum. Vivienne Yixuan Shi PO ’19 developed the exhibit last summer, and she focuses on the dichotomous relationship between aerial