Red Eye to New York by Janet Delaney (In-Person Event)

1133 Broadway,New York NY 10010

15 March, 2022

Description

Janet Delaney will be in conversation with the writer Rebecca Bengal about her latest book "Red Eye to New York." Throughout the 1980s, Janet Delaney’s job in a San Francisco photography lab was punctuated by the last-minute flights she would take to New York as a courier. Within these unexpected pockets of time she spent in New York, Delaney would wander the streets with her Rolleiflex camera, attending to the rhythms and characters of this much-mythologized city. Despite being tired and often lost, the act of photographing made Delaney feel present and alert, in tune with the crowds that pushed past her and mesmerized by the depth of history woven into the city’s structures. The color photographs that make up this series are brimming with life and reveal the formation of Delaney’s generous approach to photographing streets and the people who inhabit them, capturing the precious mixture of private lives lived in public and transient moments of connection between photographer and subject. Please preorder the book here. Guests over the age of five must wear masks and show proof of vaccination (either a vaccine card or an Excelsior Pass). "A dear friend of mine scheduled couriers for DHL. From time to time he would ring and ask if I wanted to catch the next red-eye flight to New York. I always said yes. I was never certain what cargo I was accompanying. I only knew that there would be a ticket waiting for me at the counter and that 5 and a half hours later I would arrive at JFK." —Janet Delaney "Intimate portraits of a city in a unique moment of transition … they also dramatize that myriad kind of timelessness that busy urban streets always contain: the sense of everyone, at any one moment, experiencing life at their own particular shutter speed." —The Observer "Delaney’s choice to photograph in color—a process that was rarely employed by fine art photographers of the time—creates a profound and celebratory connection to the time, place, and people." —Aperture Janet Delaney is a photographer and educator based in Berkeley, California, whose photographic work draws on research, close observation and personal experience to represent how we live in cities. Delaney is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has received three National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Her photographs are in public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, de Young Museum, Pilara Foundation, and Oakland Museum of California. Previous publications include Public Matters (2018), South of Market (MACK, 2013), as well as a number of self- published books. Rebecca Bengal is a widely published writer of fiction, essays, and narrative nonfiction who frequently writes about photography and collaborates with artists. Recent books include contributions to But Still, It Turns (Mack), Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures (Aperture), and Carolyn Drake: Knit Club (TBW Books).