Scholars and Artists 2011

Scholars & Artists are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Maya Benton

12/1 @ 7:30 PM Picturing Vishniac: A Closer Reading, New Work and Constructions of Jewish Identity

Featured in a New York Times profile, Maya Benton is director of the Roman Vishniac archive and adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP). An A.B.D. at Courtauld Institute of Art, her research focuses on documentary photographs of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, Israeli contemporary photography and video art, and more broadly, Jewish visual culture and vernacular photography.

Benton has recently curated exhibitions on the work of photojournalist Ruth Gruber, a series on contemporary Israeli video art, and is currently establishing a major public archive of Roman Vishniac's work at ICP, in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. This work will culminate in a traveling retrospective and catalog on Vishniac, set to open at ICP in 2013. The archive and exhibition have recently been awarded a lead National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant.