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Conversation on Ernest Cole: Photographer

Conversation on Ernest Cole: Photographer Joseph Lelyveld, former Executive Editor, New York […]

Conversation on Ernest Cole: Photographer

Joseph Lelyveld, former Executive Editor, New York Times, will discuss his friendship with Ernest Cole, and his life and career at the newspaper, with Fred Ritchin, Professor of Photography & Imaging and Co-Director of the Photography & Human Rights Program, TSOA, NYU.

Joseph Lelyveld became a friend of Ernest Cole’s while reporting from South Africa for the New York Times. In 1966 he was expelled by the white government then in power. He went on to cover India and Pakistan, Hong Kong, London, and Washington for the Times, and later served as the paper’s Executive Editor. His book Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, based on his reporting from Johannesburg in the 1960s and 1980s, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.

The event is free and open to the public. Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Co-organized by Global Joint and Program Studies of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Grey Art Gallery, in conjunction with the
exhibition Ernest Cole: Photographer, on view at the Grey Sept. 3-Dec. 6 (100 Washington Square East).

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