The Grange Lyceum Series presents

The Light and the Living:
An Illustrated Talk by Bill McDowell

Tuesday, October 7
7:00pm
Suggested donation: $5

Over the years Bill McDowell has established a contemplative practice in taking photographs. He’s interested in exploring the photograph as a poetic document, both in the single image and sequentially across many photographs. In this illustrated talk, Bill will discuss the trajectory of his photographic work, as well as photographs he’s made in the past year while on a sabbatical. Tarot cards and Roxham Road. Ashes and the night sky. Killed negatives and spiritualism. Lake Champlain and the unabashed joy of photographing nature.

Bill McDowell is a photographer living in Plattsburgh and is a full professor in the Art & Art History program at the University of Vermont. His published work includes the book Ground (2016) and the monograph Banner of Light: The Lily Dale Photographs (1998). His photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Issues, The New Yorker, Russian Esquire, Guernica, Spot, and Exposure. His selected solo exhibitions include Jan Kesner Gallery, in Los Angeles, Houston Center of Photography, Robert B. Menschel Gallery at Light Work, Burlington City Arts, The University of Notre Dame, Kenyon College, The Bennington Museum, and St. Lawrence University. His group shows include Harvard Art Museums, Musée d’art de Pully, Switzerland, Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K., Dallas Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, Society for Contemporary Photography, in Kansas City, SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, and the Triennial of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg.