Film Screening and Discussion: Bill Cunningham New York
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| Date: | 02-20-2012 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
| Registration: | Registration is Closed. |
The focus of this award-winning documentary is on New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding photographer has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. The film is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.
Immediately following the screening, Mary Davis, Associate Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, will lead a discussion with Jean Druesedow and William Perrine.
Druesedow is director of the Kent State University Museum. She was previously Associate Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She has served as curator or organizer for more than 40 exhibitions, is professionally active both nationally and internationally, lectures widely and contributes to publications in the field of costume studies.
Perrine is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at The Fashion School of Kent State University. His research interests include social justice in the apparel industry, sustainable consumption of apparel products, fashion student internship experiences, retail in emerging markets such as India and Turkey, paradoxical consumption patterns and network theory as related to the fashion industry.
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