Monday, August 4, 2008

JOHN WEISS INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER TO VISIT THE ART INSTITUTE OF PHILADELPHIA


John Weiss will deliver his lecture PILGRIM OF THE HEART, which chronicles his latest work created in Morocco, Peru, Ireland, and the USA on Thursday August 7th at 1:00 PM in the sixth floor studio. To View his work Click Here

John Weiss has been a photographer for thirty years. He began at M.I.T. as an apprentice to Minor White, the legendary photographer and educator. Later, he earned his M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with Harry Callanan and Aaron Siskind. John was Professor of Art and Coordinator of Photography at the University of Delaware, where he established his own record for excellence as both a maker of expressive images and as an educator. Numerous prominent public institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, have collected Weiss’s photographs..