Revealing War: A Conversation about Art and Journalism in the 21st Century

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Revealing War: A Conversation about Art and Journalism in the 21st Century

Thursday, April 27, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

Location

McCormick 101

Responding to photographer Edmund Clark’s documentation of the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay and Tim Hetherington’s photojournalistic coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and West Africa, this panel examines the moral responsibilities and contemporary challenges of representing suffering in conflict.

Nicholas Schmidle | Investigative journalist, staff writer at the New Yorker and 2016 Ferris Professor of Journalism

Daniel Heyman | Artist, lecturer in visual arts

Katherine Bussard | Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Revealing Pictures: Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection. A reception in the Museum will follow.