Due to overwhelming demand for our annual private party, this year we will host the PDN PhotoPlus Expo Bash.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
9:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m.
$25.00
Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center
311 West 34th Street (between 8th & 9th avenue)
New York, NY
Buy your ticket today!
Questions, Contact: Moneer Masih-Tehrani, Events Manager mmasih-tehrani@pdnonline.com
Tickets are first-come, first-served. Network with New York City photography industry insiders, chat with your peers and unwind after the expo—this party is the ultimate photo-industry networking event. Admission includes open bar for one hour, entertainment, a sneak-peek of the PDN Visions of the Decade project, and much more.
Performances by
Longwave
http://www.longwavetheband.com/
“No matter the stamp, there’s at least one universal aspect to New York quartet Longwave’s music – it’s really pretty. And with Secrets Are Sinister…Longwave’s ethereal, lush arrangements and floating melodies are getting decidedly epic.”
– SPIN.com
“Longwave makes music on a large scale, rife with high, chiming guitars, bold basses and choruses meant to ricochet around the far walls of the world’s great arenas…the regrouped band has come back with their boldest and most irresistible music yet’”
– New York Daily News
w/ Special Guests
Tyburn Saints
http://www.myspace.com/tyburnsaints
“NYC Artists on the rise, This is well executed dark rock. Genre collapsing.”
-The Deli Magazine
Spinning all night
DJ Anton
http://www.noordinarymonkey.com/
Longwave
http://www.longwavetheband.com/
“No matter the stamp, there’s at least one universal aspect to New York quartet Longwave’s music – it’s really pretty. And with Secrets Are Sinister…Longwave’s ethereal, lush arrangements and floating melodies are getting decidedly epic.”
– SPIN.com
“Longwave makes music on a large scale, rife with high, chiming guitars, bold basses and choruses meant to ricochet around the far walls of the world’s great arenas…the regrouped band has come back with their boldest and most irresistible music yet’”
– New York Daily News
w/ Special Guests
Tyburn Saints
http://www.myspace.com/tyburnsaints
“NYC Artists on the rise, This is well executed dark rock. Genre collapsing.”
-The Deli Magazine
Spinning all night
DJ Anton
http://www.noordinarymonkey.com/
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
Keynote
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Harry Benson: Being There
Harry Benson
Sponsored by
Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964 and knew he would stay. The Canon USA Explorer of Light's presentation followed by Q & A will highlight his 60 year career as a photojournalist.
As Harry shows photographs he will tell what it was like to photograph the last eleven American presidents--from Eisenhower to Obama; to be next to Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated; in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; on the Civil Rights Meredith March with Martin Luther King, Jr., next to Mrs. King at her husband's funeral; on clandestine maneuvers with the IRA and the KKK. Harry was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when it came down, and has photographed the Gulf War and gone undercover in Afghanistan.
His photographs of celebrities range from Frank Sinatra to Elizabeth Taylor, and from Jack Nicholson to Brad Pitt, from the Rolling Stones to Amy Winehouse, and from Mohammed Ali to Michael Jackson.
Twice named Magazine Photographer of the Year, this year Harry was made a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth for service to photography. With 40 one-man exhibits and 13 books published, his photographs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow; and the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Harry Benson: Photographs will be published in December by powerHouse books.
Special Event
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Greg Heisler Presents: Arnold Newman, Impact & Influence
Greg Heisler
Sponsored by
"We do not take pictures with our cameras, but with our hearts and minds." This poignant message to engage the medium with intelligence and compassion, as quoted by legendary portrait photographer Arnold Newman, has deeply impacted generations of photographers. In this special presentation award-winning photographer (and former Arnold Newman assistant) Gregory Heisler, will share his personal perspective on Newman's work and legacy, along with a presentation of indelible images from his own thirty-year career. Also in attendance, representing the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation, Newman's sons Eric and David will join Heisler to announce the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.
Keynote
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
Keynote
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Nuts & Bolts of the Editorial Portrait
Chris Dougherty & Nigel Parry
Get a glimpse into the realities of working as an editorial photographer in this informative Q&A with People magazine's director of photography Chris Dougherty and photographer Nigel Parry. Dougherty and Parry will discuss their collaboration over the years as well as highlight behind-the-scenes stories explaining the highs and lows of working in the editorial world. Parry will take the audience through how he carved a path for himself shooting editorial celebrity portraiture after working as a commercial photographer for over 20 years. He has also expanded his personal work to contain a similar aesthetic to his commercial and editorial work. As he blurs the boundaries between the two, he will explain the freedom of working creatively in the commercial realm and his methods for directing and captivating his subjects.
Gallery
1:00pm
The Magnum Expression Award Presentation
Crystal Palace Level 3 [Main Entrance Near Registration]
Check out the winning entries as well as finalists displaying compelling documentary photography under the inaugural theme of "communities," to be judged by a jury of famous Magnum photographers including Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Paolo Pellegrin and Susan Meiselas.
Special Event
6:00pm - 7:30pm
New Ideas, New Beginnings
Eileen Gittens, Thomas Hoepker & Joel Meyerowitz
Sponsored by
Join internationally renowned image-maker Thomas Hoepker of Magnum Photos and pioneering photo legend Joel Meyerowitz as they share their work and show how they are seizing new opportunities and developing new models for their art, craft and businesses. Then hear from Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb.com, about how you can benefit from the photo book revolution.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
Keynote
12:00pm - 1:00pm
VII Presents Photography for Change
James Nachtwey
Sponsored by
James Nachtwey is famously quoted as denying his epithet of "war photographer," instead describing himself as an "anti-war photographer." In this seminar, Nachtwey will talk about some of the lessons learned during his life-long career dedicated to photography as a tool for change.
Nuts & Bolts of the Editorial Portrait
Chris Dougherty & Nigel Parry
Get a glimpse into the realities of working as an editorial photographer in this informative Q&A with People magazine's director of photography Chris Dougherty and photographer Nigel Parry. Dougherty and Parry will discuss their collaboration over the years as well as highlight behind-the-scenes stories explaining the highs and lows of working in the editorial world. Parry will take the audience through how he carved a path for himself shooting editorial celebrity portraiture after working as a commercial photographer for over 20 years. He has also expanded his personal work to contain a similar aesthetic to his commercial and editorial work. As he blurs the boundaries between the two, he will explain the freedom of working creatively in the commercial realm and his methods for directing and captivating his subjects.
Gallery
1:00pm
The Magnum Expression Award Presentation
Crystal Palace Level 3 [Main Entrance Near Registration]
Check out the winning entries as well as finalists displaying compelling documentary photography under the inaugural theme of "communities," to be judged by a jury of famous Magnum photographers including Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Paolo Pellegrin and Susan Meiselas.
Special Event
6:00pm - 7:30pm
New Ideas, New Beginnings
Eileen Gittens, Thomas Hoepker & Joel Meyerowitz
Sponsored by
Join internationally renowned image-maker Thomas Hoepker of Magnum Photos and pioneering photo legend Joel Meyerowitz as they share their work and show how they are seizing new opportunities and developing new models for their art, craft and businesses. Then hear from Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb.com, about how you can benefit from the photo book revolution.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
Keynote
12:00pm - 1:00pm
VII Presents Photography for Change
James Nachtwey
Sponsored by
James Nachtwey is famously quoted as denying his epithet of "war photographer," instead describing himself as an "anti-war photographer." In this seminar, Nachtwey will talk about some of the lessons learned during his life-long career dedicated to photography as a tool for change.
