The Wailoa Art and Cultural Center’s 14th annual Hawaii Photo Expo will open to the public on Saturday with activities happening throughout the day beginning with a lecture by the invited juror Anne Lyden, associate curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Lyden will present a lecture entitled “From daguerreotypes to digital: Photographs at the Getty Museum” at 10 a.m. at the University of Hawaii at Hilo in lecture hall UCB 100. In the afternoon, from 3:30-4:30 p.m., Lyden will host a “walk and talk” gallery tour of the exhibit in Wailoa’s Main Gallery. As juror, she accepted 108 photo images out of 260 entries. The opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m., with the awards presentation at 5:30 p.m.
Lyden is one of seven curators in the Getty Museum’s renowned Department of Photographs, which was established in 1984 and has a collection of approximately 100,000 objects emphasizing the first 150 years of the medium. A native of Scotland, Lyden received her master of arts degree in the history of art from the University of Glasgow and her master of arts in museum studies from the University of Leicester, England.
Since joining the Getty in 1996, she has curated numerous exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, including the work of Hill and Adamson, Frederick H. Evans, and Paul Strand, and most recently contemporary photographs by Eileen Cowin, Simryn Gill, and Carrie Mae Weems.
She is currently working on an exhibition and publication, “A Royal Passion: Photography and Queen Victoria,” scheduled for February 2014. She is the author of several books including “Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel and Perception (2003)” and, most recently, “The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans(2010).” She has been a reviewer for Atlanta Celebrates Photography; Review LA, Los Angeles; Palm Springs Photo Festival, and PhotoNOLA in New Orleans. She was the 2011 judge for The Art of Photography Show, San Diego, and also judged the Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition held at the Texas Woman’s University in 2012.
Wailoa Art & Cultural Center is administered by the Division of State Parks, Department of Land and Natural Resources. It is free and opened to the public Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday from noon to 4:30 p.m. Call 933-0416, fax 933-0417 or email wailoa@yahoo.com.
