March 14th: Dialogue
“History of Artists Talk on Art”
Douglas Sheer Artwork
This dialogue features the critic and author Allan D. Coleman, in conversation with Lori Antonacci and Douglas Sheer, two of the three co-founders of Artists Talk on Art, established in 1974, who will be discussing the history of ATOA.
Moderator: Allan Coleman
A. D. Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to ARTnews, Art On Paper, Technology Review, Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), La Fotografia (Spain), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries. In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society, the first critic of photography ever so honored. In 2010 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society (U.K.) for "sustained excellence in writing about photography." In 2014 he received the Society for Photographic Education's Insight Award for lifetime contribution to the field, and in 2015 the Society of Professional Journalists SDX Award for Research About Journalism.
Coleman's widely read blog "Photocritic International" appears at photocritic.com. Since 2005, exhibitions that he has curated have opened at museums, galleries, and festivals in Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Rumania, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, and the U.S.
