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Photography, Film & Conversation with Geoff Dyer & Sasha Waters Freyer
Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm
Austin Public Library, Central
In conjunction with the Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation
Garry Winogrand was one of the most important photographers of the 1960’s and 1970’s—along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Decades before digital technology transformed how we produce and consume images, Winogrand made hundreds of thousands of photos with his 35mm Leica. His “snapshot aesthetic” captured a portrait of America from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, the New York City of Mad Men and the early years of the Women’s Movement. When Winogrand died suddenly at age 56 in 1984, Winogrand left behind more than 10,000 rolls of film. With so many unseen images, it has taken until now for the full measure of his artistic legacy to emerge. Sasha Waters Freyer's film depicts a larger-than-life American artist, full of contradictions and totally unresolved. Watch the trailer for the documentary here.
Take a virtual tour of the new downtown location of the Austin Public Library here, where readers can enjoy reading porches overlooking Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, and a rooftop garden with the largest solar installation in downtown Austin. Co-designed by San Antonio architecture firm Lake | Flato Architects (check out our book Lake Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape), the library also features a wonderful piece of public art, “Caw” by artist Christian Moeller, a grackle-inspired, 37-foot-tall kinetic sculpture with an LED screen.
ABOUT GEOFF DYER
Dyer’s many books include The Ongoing Moment (winner of the International Center of Photography’s prestigious Infinity Award for Writing/Criticism), But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer Rage (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award), The Missing of the Somme, the novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award). His latest book is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize and, most recently, the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction, Dyer is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dyer is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.
ABOUT SASHA WATERS FREYERS
Sasha Waters Freyer creates nonfiction films about outsiders, misfits, and everyday radicals. Trained in photography and the documentary tradition, she fuses original and found footage in 16mm film and video. Past projects have screened at the Telluride Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the film festivals in Rotterdam, Tribeca, Big Sky, Havana, Videoex, and Ann Arbor, IMAGES in Toronto, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Union Docs, the Pacific Film Archive, L.A. Film Forum, and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, as well as the Sundance Channel and international cable and public television. She is the Chair of the Department of Photography + Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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