EventsThe New Social Environment#1176

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

Featuring Maggie Dethloff, Jessica May, Marshall N. Price, and Tausif Noor

Monday, March 3, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Maggie Dethloff, Jessica May, and Marshall N. Price join Rail contributor Tausif Noor for a conversation.

Maggie Dethloff

A photo of Maggie Dethloff on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Maggie Dethloff is the Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. She engages in interdisciplinary research to explore the potential, and potential limits, of photographic and time-based mediums to respond to contemporary issues. Maggie holds a PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine. She has held curatorial positions at the Langson Institute and Museum of California Art at UCI and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, where she authored PHOTOdocument: Twentieth-Century American Photography and Found Text. Most recently, Maggie curated TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory.

Jessica May

A photo of Jessica May on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Jessica May joined Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art as Executive Director in February 2024. May comes to Kemper Museum with two decades of experience working with artists and communities at influential museums and institutions across the United States. May moved to Kansas City from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she most recently served as the Vice President, Art and Exhibitions for The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s oldest land conservation organization, and the Artistic Director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is co-author of the publication, Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene (Rizzoli). She graduated from Barnard College and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

    Marshall N. Price

    A photo of Marshall N. Price on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York.

    Tausif Noor

    A photo of Tausif Noor on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Photo by Lynne Cunningham
    Tausif Noor is a critic, curator, and PhD student in modern art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His criticism and essays have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, among other venues, as well as in various artist catalogues and monographs. He is a recipient of a 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, as well as a 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing.

    We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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