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The Photography of Ralph Ellison: The Images, Life and Legacy was a lively conversation moderated by NYU Professor Michael B. Gillespie, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts with the exhibition’s curators: Michal Raz-Russo, Programs Director of The Gordon Parks Foundation, and Dr. John F. Callahan, Professor Emeritus, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and Literary Executor for Ralph Ellison. NYU is thrilled to announce Ralph Ellison: Photographer, an exhibition in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation and the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust.

This program is brought to you by:
NYU Office of the Dean of Students | Grey Art Gallery NYU
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
NYU ART | The Center for Black Visual Culture

Videography credit: Stephen Mallon, Mallon Films

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MICHAEL B. GILLESPIE | MODERATOR is a Professor in the Martin Scorsese
Department of Cinema Studies. His research interests include black visual
and expressive culture, film theory, visual historiography, popular music, and
contemporary art. He is author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the
Idea of Black Film (Duke University Press, 2016). He is co-editor of Black One
Shot, an art criticism series on ASAP/J. He is currently working on a book
tentatively titled No Horizons: Pleasure, Ambivalence, and the Art of Blackness.

JOHN F. CALLAHAN is Ralph Ellison’s literary executor and Morgan S.
Odell Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Lewis & Clark College. As Ellison’s
literary executor since 1994, Callahan has edited the following posthumous
volumes: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, Flying Home and Other
Stories; Juneteenth, Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
and Albert Murray, edited with Albert Murray; Three Days Before the
Shooting... (Ellison’s unfinished second novel), edited with Adam Bradley;
and The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, edited with Marc C. Conner. He is
currently at work on a novel titled Belonging.

MICHAL RAZ-RUSSO is programs director at The Gordon Parks Foundation
and editor of Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation Book Prize publications. She
has edited and contributed to LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three
Acts and has been involved in recent Gordon Parks Foundation publications,
including Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power (Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston) and Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (expanded
edition). In addition to writing books accompanying the exhibitions Invisible
Man and The Three Graces, Raz-Russo has contributed scholarship to Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911–2011 and other publications.

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The exhibit was inspired by a newly released photo-book of the same title [published by The Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl in 2022], and features select images from the book, on loan from the Ellison Papers at the Library of Congress. Seventy years ago, Ralph Ellison was the recipient of the National Book Award for his groundbreaking novel Invisible Man; and served as NYU’s Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities from 1970 to ‘79. See the exhibit in the Kimmel Windows along LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street – free and open to the public.