An evening of readings and screenings of cinematic work developed by Eugene Richards, followed by a conversation between the artist and ICP’s Director of Content and Public Programming, Paul Rogers. The readings are performed by Marnie Andrews, Molly Carden, Sea McHale, and Mark Ziesler from the Actors Equity Association. This event is held in conjunction with Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time.
This is a free event, but please register in advance. ICP Members have access to preferred seating in our reserved members’ section.
Our ICP Museum–public program combination ticket grants $10 entry to the galleries starting at 4:30 PM to those attending the program. Tickets are only available online when you register for the program.
Bios
Eugene Richards, photographer, writer, and filmmaker, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1944. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English, he studied photography with Minor White. In 1968, he joined VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, a government program established as an arm of the so-called” War on Poverty.” Following a year and a half in eastern Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Photographs he made during these four years were published in his first monograph, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta.
Upon returning to Dorchester, Richards began to document the changing, racially diverse neighborhood where he was born. After being invited to join Magnum Photos in 1978, he worked increasingly as a freelance magazine photographer, undertaking assignments on such diverse topics as the American family, drug addiction, emergency medicine, pediatric AIDS, aging and death in America. In 1992, he directed and shot Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, the first of seven short films he would eventually make.
Richards has published seventeen books. Exploding Into Life, which chronicles his first wife Dorothea Lynch’s struggle with breast cancer, received Nikon's Book of the Year award. For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, his documentation of urban and rural poverty, Richards received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on the effects of hardcore drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. That same year, Americans We was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Best Photographic Book. In 2005, Pictures of the Year International chose The Fat Baby, an anthology of fifteen photographic essays, Best Book of the year. Richards’s most recent books include The Blue Room, a study of abandoned houses in rural America; War Is Personal, an assessment in words and pictures of the human consequences of the Iraq war; and Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, a remembrance of life on the Arkansas Delta.
Paul Rogers joined the International Center of Photography as director of content and public programming in 2016 and leads the Center for Visual Culture. Previously, he was vice president of public programs and exhibitions at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI. His prior work experience also includes nine years of consulting in thought-leadership, curriculum development, and culture-based program design, and graduate and undergraduate teaching of the history of art at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, and Emory University. Rogers holds a BA in art history from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in the history of art from Yale University.
Marnie Andrews*—Director/ Tiny: From leading roles, (Camelot, The Killing of Sister George, The Glass Menagerie) to characters like Tiny. Recent films include Hits, Jack Goes Home. TV: “ER,” “Murder One,” “Wonder Years,” “Reasonable Doubts.” In LA, Dramalogue, Garland Awards. A Berrilla Kerr Playwrighting grant recipient, Marnie’s focus on new works includes several world premieres, (The Realization of Emily Linder) and currently, PLAYS IN PROGRESS, Hudson, NY. Collaborates with photographer/husband Jeff Jacobson, publishing internationally. Her 35 years directing includes a modern Trojan Women (Getty Museum, LA), to The Mousetrap and Fifth of July (excellence awards, American College Theatre Festival). Teaching/Guest Artist: NYU, USC, Oklahoma State, SUNY Albany.
Molly Carden*—Dorothea: New York credits: Emotional Creature (Signature Theatre), Pressing Matters (Clurman Theatre) Please Continue (Ensemble Studio Theater), How To Live On Earth (Colt Coeur), Cherry Smoke (Working Theater), Downtown Race Riot (NYSF/Powerhouse Theater). Regional: The Carpenter (upcoming at Alley Theatre), Translations (Studio Theatre), Frankenstein (Denver Center), The Night Alive (John Drew/Guild Hall), On Clover Road (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Emotional Creature (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Great Immensity, (co-production with The Civilians at Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Proud member of Colt Coeur, EST, and the 52nd St. Project. BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Sea McHale*—Tomas: Sea McHale is very excited to be a part of this reading! Credits include: Broadway: Marvin’s Room; Off Broadway: Warboys, Mercury Fur, Rough.In.Proof, The Shape of Things; TV: “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “The Blacklist”; Film: Looks That Kill, The Fish, Contents Under Pressure, One Penny, Addiction, Automatic Hate.
Mark Ziesler*—Gene Richards: Mark Zeisler: Broadway: A View From the Bridge, Brooklyn Boy, The Big Knife. Off Broadway: Rancho Viejo, Piece of My Heart, Eurydice, The Accomplices. Regional: The Alley Theatre and Seattle Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Merrimack Rep, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Goodman, The McCarter, Seattle Rep, The Folger Theatre, Elm Shakespeare, BAM Next Wave Festival, Asolo Rep, Maltz Theatre. Television: “Bull,” “Castle Rock,” “The Blacklist,” “House of Cards,” “Elementary,” “The Good Wife,” “Rescue Me,” “Blue Bloods,” “Pan Am,” “The Americans,” all three “Law and Order(s).” Film: Two Week Notice, Random Hearts, Shaft. Narrator for GI Jews (PBS). Trained at SUNY Purchase.
*Member—Actors Equity Association