Photography Discussion with Rebecca Senf

Join Dr. Rebecca Senf, Senior Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, and Dr. Steve Hoelscher, Faculty Curator for Photography at the Ransom Center, as they explore the photographic process and legacy of Ansel Adams. This discussion is held in conjunction with the exhibition Visualizing the Environment: Ansel Adams and His Legacy. A reception, book sales, and a signing will follow the discussion.

About Rebecca Senf

Dr. Rebecca Senf has worked as the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography since January 2016. She grew up in Tucson and went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona, studying the History of Photography. She earned an MA and a PhD in Art History at Boston University. While in Boston, she worked on a major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalog. In October of 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press. She contributed an interview with Frank Gohlke to an upcoming volume from Bloomsbury Press entitled Before-and-After Photography: Histories and Contexts edited by Jordan Bear and Kate Palmer Albers. In 2018 her work with Betsy Schneider was co-published by Phoenix Art Museum and Radius Books as To Be Thirteen. In 2020, she contributed to the Mark Klett retrospective Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photographs from University of Texas Press and released Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams a co-publication of the Center for Creative Photography and Yale University Press.

Please have your reservation confirmation ready upon entering. A reservation does not guarantee a seat. Line forms upon arrival of the first patron, and doors open 30 minutes in advance. Doors to our theater will open approximately 30 minutes before the event begins. No food or beverages are allowed inside our theater or gallery space.

Host or Publisher Harry Ransom Center