Join Anderson Ranch CEO Peter Waanders and photography historian Rupert Jenkins for a conversation exploring Aspen's enduring legacy as a center for photography. Together, they will trace the evolution of the region's photographic history—from the landmark 1951 Photography Conference at the Jerome Hotel and the influential Center of the Eye workshops of the 1960s and 1970s to the internationally recognized photography program at Anderson Ranch today. Along the way, they will highlight the artists, ideas, and creative community that have shaped Aspen into one of the country's most important destinations for fine art photography.
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Outside Influence installation photo. At the Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, March-April 2025. L-R: Albert Chong (background), R. Skip Kohloff, Barbara Houghton (x3).
Exhibition curator Rupert Jenkins speaking at the Outside Influence reception, March 13, 2025 At the Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO. Photograph by Mark Sink.
Photograph by Peter de Lory: Center of the Eye Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 1969 - homage to Paul Strand’s The Family, Luzzara, Italy 1953. L-R: Unidentified, Alan Becker (seated), Ellen Manchester and Alex Sweetman in doorway, Ron Testa, Ralph Wolf. Courtesy of the artist.
Photograph by Arthur Nager: The Divine Light Festival, Montrose, Colorado, July 27, 1972. Courtesy of the artist
Photograph by Hal Gould and Mollie Uhl: Obscurians at Camera Obscura, Denver, CO. Top row (standing) left to right: Greg Matheny, Mollie Uhl. Seated in second row, left to right: Elaine Jarzen, Hal Gould, Klaus Kocher. Images they’re holding: Paul Strand, Philippe Halsman, Imogen Cunningham, Andre Kertesz and Sebastiao Salgado. Copyright: Hal Gould/Collection of Juliette Gould.
Aspen Ideas Festival “Picture This: Photography, Truth, and Social Change” roundtable, June 20, 2025. L-R: Michael Famighetti, Aperture editor in chief; Sarah Meister, Aperture executive director; Alex Hedison, photographer/filmmaker. Third from right: Tyler Mitchell, photographer. The roundtable was located at the Aspen Institute’s Paepcke Tent in the center of an exhibition on the 1951 Aspen conference on photography (described in the Colorado Photo History blog, menu left).
“Framing Place and Time” conferees, Trinidad, Colorado, September 2022. Photo by Thomas Carr. Back Row, L-R: Rupert Jenkins, Mark Sink, Julie Stephenson, Krystle Stricklin, Kevin Smith, David Freund, Melissa Totten, Miles Scott. Next down, L-R: Mark Klett, Linda Connor, Richard Neill, Willy Sutton, Scott McLeod. Next down, L-R: Marshall Mayer behind Bonnie Lambert; Kenda North, Caroline Hinkley, Gary Emrich, JoAnn Verburg, Robert Dawson (behind Kenda North); Seated L-R: Mark Johnstone, Wanda Hammerbeck, Darryl Curran, Greg Mac Gregor; Standing next to Greg: Ellen Manchester, Tom Lamb (behind), Tom Carr. On steps, T-B: Keith Farley, Jim Stone, Barbara Houghton, Jay di Lorenzo, Vickie Lamb. Courtesy of Barbara Houghton.