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We are proud to announce that Linda Benedict-Jones will be giving a
gallery talk on January 24 at 4 p.m. as part of our "Nature in
Isolation" exhibition. Please join us for an enlightening discussion of
Melville McLean's work and a reception to follow.
Brief biography of our upcoming lecturer:
Linda Benedict-Jones is Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for
Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has also worked in
Pittsburgh as Curator of Education at The Frick Art & Historical
Center, and as a guest curator of photography at The Carnegie Museum of
Art, where she co-curated "Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 1850,"
with photographer Charlee Brodsky in 1997. Prior to moving to
Pittsburgh in 1993, Benedict-Jones was Curator of the Polaroid
Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts and before that Director of
Polaroid's Clarence Kennedy Gallery.
Benedict-Jones became interested in photography in the late 1960s when
she moved to Portugal with her husband who was a player/coach in a
burgeoning European basketball league. She started as a sports
photographer for the Diário de Lisboa and other Lisbon papers but
changed to fine-art photography when the couple moved to Paris, France
in 1973. After four years in France and two in England, Benedict-Jones
had an established reputation throughout western Europe and was
represented by The Photographer's Gallery in London, the Galerie Fiolet
in Amsterdam, and the Galerie Viviane Esders in Paris. In 1979, she
moved back to the United States and enrolled in a program at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to obtain a Master's Degree in
Visual Studies. From there, she began to do consulting work with
Polaroid, and eventually joined them following graduation.
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