Gould Library Spring Exhibitions 2012

Photographers & Authors
March 26 – June 9, 2012

Gould Library is fortunate to own a significant collection of portraits of twentieth-century authors made by notable photographers. The Photographers and Authors collection was created by Carleton parents Raphael and Jane Bernstein to mark the 1984 expansion of Gould Library and is exhibited every two years to celebrate outstanding achievements in the literary and visual arts.


Image, Text, Page: Artists & Writers in Collaboration

In these collaborations, visual artists and writers are paired to create something new: an illustrated book in which words lend new vibrancy to the images, and the images add color and depth to the text. The pages that result are more than the sum of their parts. 

The volumes in this exhibition come from publishing projects based in the libraries of two great museums: the books by Doug Aitkin and Beatriz Milhazes were published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, and the others by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. They are part of a collection of artist’s books donated to Gould Library Special Collections by Hadassah Brooks Morgan.

The 26th Annual Off-Campus Studies Photo Exhibit
May– August, 2012

An annual favorite of Carleton students, faculty and staff, the Off Campus Studies Photo Contest exhibition will open with a celebration in late April. A panel of judges will select 25 photographs from over 200 entries, awarding prizes in the person, place, story, and library categories.

Staging Selves: Cameroonian Portrait Photography. Photographs by Joseph Chila, Samuel Finlak, Jacques Touselle
April 6 – June 17, 2012
Gould Library

This exhibition features the work of Joseph Chila, Samuel Finlak, and Jacques Touselle, professional portrait photographers from Cameroon. Most of the images they made were for state identification cards, but both men documented weddings, funerals, births, and other family events and celebrations, sometimes photographing their clients in their studios, sometimes traveling miles to the clients’ homes. Drawn from an archive of more than 4,000 images, the portraits in this exhibition highlight the vibrant and compelling tradition of African photography in the pre-digital age.

Gould Library Fall 2012

Hand, Voice, & Vision:
Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop

At Carleton College's Gould Library
September 10-November 25, 2012

Carleton College will present an exhibition featuring artists' books by several artists published over thirty years by Women's Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America. The works in Hand, Voice & Vision celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women's Studio Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts.

Since 1974, Women's Studio Workshop has provided close to two hundred artists, both emerging and established, with studio facilities and technical expertise to produce limited edition artists’ books.

For more information, visit Carleton's VIZ Website.