Department of Art and Design explores photography of the American West in Art History Guest Lecture Series

The Department of Art and Design will present Roja Najafi for the upcoming Art History Guest Lecture Series. The series, The Complex Legacy of Landscape Photography: Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the West, will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. via Zoom.

“Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is one of the few artists whose works have helped to define a genre. Over the last half of the twentieth century, his black-and-white photographs have become, for many viewers, visual embodiments of the sites he captured,” said Najafi.

The talk will explore the complex legacy of landscape photography and Adams’ influences on the photographers of the west. Locations discussed will include Yosemite, Yellowstone National Parks, the Sierra Nevada and the American Southwest, among others.

Najafi is the lead of the Art History Program at Chandler-Gilbert Community College located in Chandler, Arizona. She is a former and guest curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

The Zoom link for The Complex Legacy of Landscape Photography: Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the West is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86530223340.

For more information about the Department of Art and Design, please visit lamar.edu/art.