Here are the different projects that make up the Millennial Collection.
Millennial Collection: More than 800 photographs have been collected so far in portfolios by professional and student photographers.
Shifting Landscape Conference: "Shifting Landscapes: Considerations of Time, Place, and Culture" was presented at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX October 18-20, 2001. The focus of this event revolved around issues posed by documentary photography and alternative kinds of collected or created histories. We considered regional, global, temporal, natural, and cultural aspects with respect to a changing Sense of Place. We examined traditional and experimental attitudes towards documents and artifacts. We also pondered "interpretation," and the simultaneous revealing and concealing tendencies of changing frames of reference.
Hosted jointly by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and the School of Art at Texas Tech University, this event served both as an interdisciplinary forum for well known scholars, visual artists, and mixed audience participants as well as the South Central Regional Conference of the Society for Photographic Education. It brought together photographers, writers, historians, geographers, and others to share and debate. Student documentary projects and strategies were presented. A list of professional presenters and exhibitors included: Lucy Lippard, Clarissa Sligh, Steve Fitch, Robert Amberg, Miguel Gandert, Sharon Stewart, Wayne Lambert, RC Hickman, John Miller Morris, Chris Wilson, Deborah Luster, Ave Bonar, and Kathleen Howe. There were photographic exhibitions, individual as well as panel presentations, and opportunities for interactive dialog in "breakout sessions" that mixed conference presenters with audience members.
Exhibitions: The Student Photographs in the Millennial collection have been exhibited at Austin College and at the University of Utah School of Architecture. If you would like to bring an exhibition of this work to your institution, do an exchange exhibition with us of student work from your school, or collaborate on a similar project in your region, please contact us.
Syllabus: Enclosed are class assignments that prepare students to create their own documentary projects for the Millennial Collection.
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In progress:
"El Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky:" Seven documentary photographers are currently working on a year-long project to record their responses to the Llano Estacado. Photographers Peter Brown, Rick Dingus, Steve Fitch, Miguel Gandert, Tony Gleaton, Andrew John Liccardo, and Deborah Luster will photograph and travel across the breadth of this region, an area that covers a portion of West Texas and eastern New Mexico. In 2005, a selected group of images by these photographers will be placed in the Millennial Collection and included in an exhibition at the International Cultural Center in Lubbock, TX. This project is supported by a grant from the CH Foundation. A book is also planned. For additional information please contact Steve Bogener, Assistant Archivist, at 742-9020 ext. 236 or Bill Tydeman, Associate Dean of Libraries, at 742-3676. (Click here for details.)
Publications: A book about the Millennial Collection is in progress that includes photographs, a forward by Lucy Lippard, and articles by Barry Lopez, Rick Dingus, Andrew Liccardo, Steve Bogener, and Chris Wilson.
