The University of New Mexico's Center for the Southwest presents a lecture by Martha Sandweiss, professor of American Studies and history at Amherst College, on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 3:30 p.m. in the UNM History Department Commons Room, 1104 Mesa Vista Hall.
The lecture is based on her book, “Print the Legend: Photography and the American West,” winner of the 2002 Ray Allen Billington Prize of the Organization of American Historians. The book offers a cultural history of photography in the American West during the 19th century and tracks how the new medium of photography created and shaped popular understanding of the region.
Sandweiss has been a member of the Amherst College faculty since 1989, was also director of the Mead Art Museum from 1989 until 1997, and formerly the curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She received her Ph.D., master's in philosophy and master's in history from Yale University, and a bachelor's from Radcliffe College.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales (505) 277-5920
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