Marvin Heiferman, an independent curator and writer, originates and produces projects about the impact of photographic images on art and visual culture. He has organized exhibitions and developed print and online content for clients including the Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Photography Initiative, The International Center of Photography, The Whitney Museum and the New Museum. A contributing editor to Art in America, Heiferman has written for museum publications, catalogs, monographs, and magazines including Artforum, Bookforum, Mousse, ArtNews, Aperture, and BOMB. He is a core faculty member in the International Center of Photography/Bard College MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, and teaches in the School of Visual Art's MFA Program in Photography, Video and Related Media. Author and/or editor of over two dozen books on photography and visual culture, Heiferman's most recent book, Photography Changes Everything, was published in 2012. New entries to his Twitter-based project, WHY WE LOOK (@whywelook) are posted daily.
◇ Hot Topics: Marvin Heiferman on Vimeo
Video from Marvin Heiferman's Hot Topics lecture on Saturday, October 29, 2011.
Marvin Heiferman develops exhibitions, web-based projects and publications that explore the power of photographic images in visual culture. He has curated major projects, including John Waters: Change of Life (New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004), and Fame After Photography (Museum of Modern Art, 1999) at such institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum of American Ar, and the International Center of Photography. He has authored numerous books, and contributed to publications such as Art in America, Artforum, and BOMB.
◇ Marvin Heiferman - ACP Knowledge Series 2012 - YouTube
http://youtu.be/l1Q_IBu1F0M
◇ Marvin Heiferman - ACP Knowledge Series 2012 - Discussion - YouTube
http://youtu.be/LS53MUMmS0k
◇ Photography Changes Everything - Smithsonian American Art Museum - YouTube
Photography Changes Everything, a new book from the Smithsonian and the Aperture Foundation, uses the visual assets of the museum to explore how photographs impact our culture and our lives. Join Marvin Heiferman, editor, David Griffin, Visuals Editor of the Washington Post, Bruce Hoffman, director of security studies at Georgetown University; Philip Kennicott, art and architecture critic of the Washington Post; and other guests, for a discussion moderated by Merry Foresta, founding director
of the SI Photography Initiative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjNa-yXihuI
◇ Marvin Heiferman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Assistant Director of LIGHT Gallery, New York (1971-1974), Director of Castelli Graphics and Photographs, New York (1975-1982), an artist representative (1982-1988) and an independent curator (1989-present), Heiferman has organized influential thematic exhibitions and worked with a wide range of artists and photographers including Eve Arnold, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Robert Adams (photographer), Nan Goldin, John Waters, and Richard Prince. Known as an early champion of color, narrative and appropriation (art) photography, Heiferman shifted the focus of his work in the mid-1980s to develop projects explored the impact of mediated and vernacular images on history, society, culture and everyday life.[1] In 1991, Heiferman became a founding partner (with Carole Kismaric) of Lookout, a company that, for a dozen years, produced innovative exhibitions and cultural projects for major museums (including Fame After Photography, Museum of Modern Art, 1999), humanitarian organizations, publishers, and imaging and media corporations.
Selected Exhibitions
- Bill Wood’s Business (International Center of Photography, 2008)[4]
- Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection (The Newark Museum, 2008)[5]
- John Waters: Change of Life (New Museum, 2004)[6]
- Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution (Exit Art, 2000)[7]
- Fame After Photography (The Museum of Modern Art, 1999)[8]
- To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive (International Center of Photography, 1999)
- Talking Pictures (International Center of Photography, 1994)
- The Indomitable Spirit, (International Center of Photography, 1990)
- Image World: Art and Media Culture (Whitney Museum of American Art, with Lisa Phillips and John Handhardt, 1989)
- The Real Big Picture (Queens Museum of Art, 1985)
- The Family of Man, 1954-1984 (MoMA PS1, 1984)
- Still Life (Whitney Museum of American Art, with Diane Keaton, 1983)
- Some Color Photographs, (Castelli Graphics, 1977)
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RICHARD PRINCE AT GAGOSIAN by Nick Stillman
Nick Stillman laments the lack of humor in Richard Prince’s latest gallery show, citing quotes from past BOMB interviews with Barbara Kruger and Marvin Heiferman. (BOMBlog/Posted Dec 2008, ART) ...
DAVID YAGER by Marvin Heiferman
This issue contains artwork by David Yager, and Marvin Heiferman’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only. (BOMB 66/Winter 1999, Print Only) ...
MARVIN HEIFERMAN by Saul Ostrow
Marvin Heiferman talks about co-curating his show Image World. (BOMB 29/Fall 1989, ART) ...
RICHARD PRINCE by Marvin Heiferman
A look back to nearly twenty years ago, as Richard Prince discusses the jokes, cartoons and gangs that populate a lifetime of work, with Marvin Heiferman. Prince has a new show at Gagosian Gallery in New York which opens November 8th. (BOMB 24/Summer 1988, ART) ...
