PDS 3: Publishing a Photobook with Michelle Dunn Marsh.
March 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Michelle’s conversation on publishing will address photobooks historically, and how they are often functioning as artist books today. She will speak to the importance of a team in creating books that consider both author and audience, and some of the joys and challenges in making books today.
Level: All
Day & Time: Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7pm-8:30pm
Event Type: Online Lecture with Q&A
Academic Members: Free to enrolled students and educators in organizations who hold an academic membership.
Lecture Series (includes all six lectures): Members, $140.00 / Non-Members, $195
Speakers will include:
Stella Kramer, January 30, 2025: How to create and maintain a dynamic website for lens-based artists.
Holly Hughes, February 13, 2025: Best practices on writing and finding grants.
Michelle Dunn Marsh, March 20, 2025: Discussing the innovation around today’s photo books, publishing, and how the photo book has evolved into the “artist book”.
Catherine Couturier, April 17, 2025: Best practices for how to approach and work with a gallery.
Priya Kambli, May 8, 2025: Ways to find and apply for an artist residency or fellowship
Kareem Black, May 15, 2025: How to create effective promotional avenues, social media campaigns, and other marketing strategies for furthering your career.
About the Speaker
Michelle Dunn Marsh shares significant photography and contemporary art through publications, exhibitions, and conversations. Professionally engaged in visual book publishing since 1996, she conceived Minor Matters, a collaborative publishing platform, and launched it with Steve McIntyre in 2013. They have since produced over thirty titles and sold them throughout the United States and around the world.
Dunn Marsh spent fifteen years with Aperture Foundation, and was senior editor of art+design at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. Previously a tenured professor in graphic design at Seattle Central Community College, she has lectured on visual literacy, publishing, and the history of photography at Parsons/The New School, Yale University, YoungArts in Miami, Seattle University, Cornish College of the Arts, The Seagull School for Publishing in Calcutta, and PhotoIreland, among other institutions. She is the author of Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, and has curated exhibitions for The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Tacoma Art Museum, MoPOP in Seattle, and The AIPAD Photography Show in New York, among other venues.
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