The 4th Biennial Reva & David Logan Photo Book Symposium

Saturday April 12, 2025, 9:30am – 5:00pm PDT
University of California, Berkeley, International House
2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720

The Reva & David Logan Book Symposium, which brings together photographers, academics, students and collectors to celebrate the published photograph, will be held on April 15th, 2023 in Sibley Auditorium on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. The biennial event, which launched in 2017, is provided under an endowment at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism that established a permanent professorship in photojournalism and funds exhibits in the School’s Gallery. The events complement the Logan Photo Book Collection at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, which brought the late David Logan’s exceptional collection of photography books to the campus.

After a pause in 2021, the Symposium is bringing a stellar list of guest speakers to the 2023 symposium including Sarah Meister, Jim Goldberg, Baldwin Lee, Dr. Deborah Wills, Pablo Ortíz Monestario, Ben Brody, Douglas Stockdale, Michelle Dunn Marsh, Kris Graves, Todd Hido, Mimi Plumb, Lucas Foglia, Ken Light and Christine-Hult Lewis.

The Symposium also invite you to attend a special open house of The Reva & David Logan Book Collection at The Bancroft Library on Friday April 14th, 1-4pm. If you have any questions about this event, please contact Lia Swindle at events@journalism.berkeley.edu.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT

Aperture Foundation Executive Director Sarah Meister at the 3rd Biennial Reva and David Logan Photo Book Symposium, 2023

SESSIONS

09:30 am – 09:45 a.m

09:45 am – 10:00 am

10:00 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

12:30 pm – 01:30 pm

01:30 pm – 02:30 pm

02:30 pm – 03:45 pm

04:00 pm – 05:30 pm

05:30 pm – 06:30 pm

Introduction by Ken Light, Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

The Reva & David Logan Photo Book Collection Bancroft Library, Christine-Hult Lewis, Interim Pictorial Curator, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library

Fotovision Endowment Guest Speaker, Sarah Meister, Director of Aperture

Representation in Photo Books, moderated by Dr. Deborah Willis, Pablo Ortiz Monestario, and Ben Brody

Lunch break

Indie Book Scene, moderated by Douglas Stockdale, Michelle Dunn Marsh, and Kris Graves

The Book Process, moderated by Todd Hido, Mimi Plumb, and Lucas Foglia

The Social Document as a Book, moderated by Sarah Meister, Jim Goldberg, and Baldwin Lee

Book signings and sales

FOTOVISION ENDOWMENT LECTURER

Sarah Meister
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, APERTURE FOUNDATION

Sarah Meister joined Aperture in May 2021, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At MoMA, Sarah curated numerous exhibitions including Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964 (2021); Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020); Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (co-curator, 2017); One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016); From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola (co-curator, 2015); and Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light (2013). Her most recent publications consider Luigi Ghirri (2020), Frances Benjamin Johnston (2019), Dorothea Lange (2018), and the 1967 MoMA exhibition New Documents (2017); and she is author and coeditor of the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (with Quentin Bajac, et al.). She was lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs, and codirector of the August Sander Project. Sarah holds a BA in art history from Princeton University, New Jersey.

PARTICIPANTS

Ben Brody
Photographer/Educator/Publisher
Mass Books

Kris Graves
Photographer/Publisher
KGP | Monolith

Ken Light
Photographer/Educator
UC Berkeley

Douglas Stockdale
Artist/Educator/Editor&Founder
PhotoBook Journal

Michelle Dunn Marsh
Publisher/Co-Founder
Minor Matters Books

Todd Hido
Artist/Educator

Sarah Meister
Curator/Publisher
Aperture Foundation

Deborah Willis
Artist/Educator/Photographic Historian
New York University

Lucas Foglia
Artist/Educator

Baldwin Lee
Artist/Educator

Pablo Ortiz Monestario
Photographer/Writer/Editor

Jim Goldberg
Artist

Christine Hult-Lewis
Curator/Educator/Historian
The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Mimi Plumb
Artist/Educator

ABOUT THE REVA & DAVID LOGAN BOOK SYMPOSIUM

The Reva & David Logan Book Symposium brings together photographers, academics, students and collectors to celebrate the published photograph. The biennial event, which launched in 2017, is provided under an endowment at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism that established a permanent professorship in photojournalism and funds exhibits in the J-School’s Gallery. The first Logan Professor is award-winning documentary photographer and the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism Ken Light.

The events complement the Logan Photo Book Collection at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, which brought the late David Logan’s exceptional collection of photography books to the campus.

ABOUT THE JOURNALISM SCHOOL’S CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

The Center for Photography at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, founded in 1996, teaches photojournalism and social documentary photography. The Center routinely exhibits world-class photographers in the halls of the Journalism School, and its public events have brought distinguished photojournalists such as Marc Riboud and Sebastião Salgado to Berkeley. It has published four books with University of California Press, and the School has self-published eight student titles. Its annual magazine “realeyes,” showcasing the work of student photographers, recently marked its 18th anniversary.