Director's Talk

James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, speaks with Jewish Museum collection artist and photographer Elinor Carucci. Carucci, known for her intimate self-portraits of motherhood and the body, will discuss the arc of her artistic practice, including her previous exhibition at the Jewish Museum RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci.

About the artist:

Elinor Carucci is a photographer whose work has been exhibited worldwide in both solo and group exhibitions. Her images have been featured in major international publications and are held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Jewish Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Carucci has received numerous prestigious awards, including the ICP Infinity Award (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), and a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship (2010). She has published five monographs: Closer, Diary of a Dancer, MOTHER, MIDLIFE, and most recently, The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She teaches in the graduate program of Photography at the School of Visual Arts and at Hunter College Art Department and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

Tickets: $24 General; $16 Students and Seniors; $14 Jewish Museum members

Doors open at 6 pm; Includes Museum Admission

The Morris W. Offit Lecture Series at the Jewish Museum is made possible in part by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.