Online Conversations:
On Visual Literacy and Seeing with Michelle Dunn Marsh
Friday, August 13 at 3PM PT

Michelle Dunn Marsh uses images—by Carrie Mae Weems, Jeff Dunas, Mary Ellen Mark, Sylvia Plachy, Endia Beal, Catherine Chalmers, Jock Sturges and others—from her forthcoming book Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, to introduce a simple methodology for reading photographs. This presentation and discussion will engage with the photograph's unique ability to trigger our memory associations, and address why learning to read photographs is a necessity for social changes in the United States. The presentation is followed by a conversation and open Q&A.

Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, Seattle, of Burmese and Irish descent) has occupied executive and creative roles in photography and publishing for over 25 years. She conceived and co-founded Minor Matters, a collaborative publishing platform, in 2013.

Dunn Marsh spent fifteen years in various roles with the non-profit publisher Aperture Foundation, New York; was senior editor of art+design at Chronicle Books in San Francisco; and has worked in a freelance or consulting capacity with over twenty publishers, museums, and cultural institutions on books or public programming. Previously a tenured professor in graphic design at Seattle Central College, she has lectured a t Parsons/The New School, Yale University, YoungArts in Miami, The Seagull School for Publishing in Calcutta, and PhotoIreland, among others. She holds a BA from Bard College, and an MS in Publishing from Pace University.

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