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Small Talks are intimate evenings featuring presentations by speakers who represent a broad spectrum of visual culture. Expose yourself to various passions, disciplines, ways of working, and ways of seeing. Join fellow members in the Bumble and bumble auditorium in the Meatpacking District (after wine and hors d’oeuvres in the library) for a series that is sure to inspire and inform.

Marc Joseph was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Kent State University. Solo exhibitions of pictures from his first monograph American Pitbull (Steidl, 2003) have been mounted in the United States and the Netherlands. Joseph lives and works in New York City, where he also teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

Marc's new book, Marc Joseph: New and Used will be for sale at the event.

Edited by Damon Krukowski. Texts by Lydia Davis, Stephen Elliott, Shelley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem, Thurston Moore, Eileen Myles, Bob Nickas, Aaron Rose, Jeremy Sigler, Stephanie Snyder, Ian Svenonius and Nick Tosches. Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, photographer Marc Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of downtown Cleveland. Most Saturday afternoons were spent combing through the stacks in anticipation of a major future purchase--like his first, London Calling by the Clash--or studying certain talismanic book covers like George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. This was the beginning of Joseph’s permanent fascination with books and records--both as public artworks and as formative private experiences. New and Used is a collection of richly detailed color photographs of hardcovers, paperbacks, LPs, CDs and cassettes, either shelved, piled, boxed and stacked in their increasingly endangered natural environments--independent book and record shops--or individually silhouetted like artifacts pinned into shadow boxes. Together with editor Damon Krukowski, the artist has assembled a collection of short fiction, prose, poems and personal essays by writers and musicians including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, novelists Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Davis, critic and curator Bob Nickas, poets Eileen Myles and Nick Tosches and others, all of whom respond to the New and Used of their own experience.

The font for this event's graphic, Baskerville Semi-Bold, was chosen by AIGA member Jedd Flanscha, and the color, PMS 4975, by AIGA member Koichi Yanagidaira.