This is for the in-person attendance option for this lecture.
Jon Gilbert Fox, photographer and bibliophile since birth, will present a talk on book collecting from a very personal perspective, while giving lessons on what to look for, how to identify first editions and rarities, and what to avoid. He'll also share adventures in the jungle and jumble of books, as well as unique encounters with their authors.
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Since he first had a camera in his hands at age eight, Jon Gilbert Fox has been using one as a tool to explore his world. From the dressing room with Liza Minelli to the dance studio with Mikhail Baryshnikov to the stage with Beverly Sills and offstage with Glenn Close, Fox has captured the moods of the entertainment world. From the streets of New York City to the alleyways of Morocco, and from the hills of Vermont to the rugged Northern California Coast, Fox has abstracted compositions of color and texture. Over the years he has freelanced for folk festivals, corporate reports, family portraits, hospital brochures, national park publications, author dust jacket portraits, bank advertisements, as well as innumerable portraits of the mighty and the lowly.Besides mounting one-man and group shows throughout the U.S., his photographs have been published in such diverse venues as U.S. News Report, the New York Times, House and Garden, Playboy, Vogue, Der Stern, Scholastic Magazine, Mandate, Vermont Life Magazine, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, Der Spiegel, Focus Magazine, the Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, as well as many other U.S. and world-wide publications.
And, in between, he has been collecting books since the age of ten.
This lecture will be recorded; a link will be sent to registrants approximately 24 hours after the lecture has concluded.