Photography and the Photobook: A Conversation with Bea Nettles
March 14, 2024
Photographer Bea Nettles discusses her longstanding engagement with the photobook as a form, as well as her current practice and thinking about the field. She talks with Lisa Volpe, curator of photography. A book signing follows the discussion. This event is presented in collaboration with FotoFest.
The Museum’s Hirsch Library recently acquired more than 50 photographically illustrated books from Nettles. The acquisition brings to the MFAH a particularly rich collection associated with this singular photographer.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free. This program takes place in the American General Conference Room on the mezzanine level of the Beck Building. Seating is first come, first served.
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About the Artist
The exhibition career of Bea Nettles began with Photography into Sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1970. She went on to receive two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and in 2023 she was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. She is also an educator and author of the textbook Breaking the Rules: A Photo Media Cookbook. The career retrospective Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory opened in 2020.
On Thursday, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.