SYLVIA PLACHY
Talk and Book Signing
Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the legendary Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker. Plachy will discuss key images in her latest Aperture book, Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (co-published with The New Yorker, October 2007), which brings together a collection of these delightful and enchanting photographs for the first time. Plachy, who is well known to New Yorkers for her long-standing photo column at the Village Voice entitled “Unguided Tour,” explores the city’s dynamics from the inside out, revealing the vital and at times wacky creativity that energizes New York around the clock. The images are quintessentially Sylvia Plachy, and quintessentially New York. Plachy will also show and discuss other images from her illustrious 40-year career.
Sylvia Plachy’s (b.1943, Budapest) photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Village Voice, Granta, Artforum, Fortune, and have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Berlin, Paris, Budapest, and Tokyo. Plachy has received a 2004 Golden Light award for her critically acclaimed book of her personal history in central Europe, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home (Aperture, 2004). A retrospective of her work was featured at PhotoEspaña, Madrid, last spring.
Monday, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849
