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Mariana Cook: Faces of Science
Gallery Talk with Frank Goodyear
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
National Academies’ Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
First Floor Gallery
Free. Photo ID required.
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Join Frank Goodyear, assistant curator of photography at the National Portrait Gallery, for a gallery talk and discussion on Mariana Cook’s exhibit, “Faces of Science.”
In “Faces of Science”, photographer Mariana Cook turns her camera on some of the greatest men and women of the scientific community. Each portrait is paired with a short autobiographical essay explaining how the scientist became interested in his or her chosen field. This unique treasury of word and image, scientific and personal, illuminates the individual character of each scientist and reveals some of what they have in common: intellectual curiosity, a desire to help mankind, and an ability to work with others to accomplish their tasks.
Goodyear completed his undergraduate work at Princeton University and he received his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in May, 1998. At the Portrait Gallery, he is currently conducting research on the career of Zaida Ben-Yusuk (1869-1933), a little-known, yet important New York photographer whose Fifth Avenue studio attracted the leading artistic, literary, and theatrical elite of her day. Goodyear is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of American Studies at The George Washington University, where he teaches graduate classes in American Visual Studies, the History of Photography, and Native American History.
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