The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Roe Ethridge and Vince Aletti

Join us at ICP for the second installment of the spring Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture collection that includes postmodernist business and artwork photographer Roe Ethridge. Ethridge will focus on the scope of his profession in addition to his newest launch Rude within the Good Way (Loose Joints, $)  with author and curator Vince Aletti.

This program is being provided each in individual at ICP, positioned on NYC’s Lower East Side, and on-line. Current ICP college students and college of the One-Year Certificate packages are mechanically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.

Past audio system of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture collection embrace: JEB, Philip Cheung, Edwaard Burtynsky, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Johnny Miller, and Erin Schaff.

Image by Roe Ethridge, Georgia with Pinwheeel Sun, 2021.

About the Series

ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the sphere and to additional her life’s work by way of this lecture collection. Naomi Rosenblum was one of many main images historians of her technology and the writer of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made doable by way of beneficiant assist from the Rosenblum Family. 

About the Speakers

Roe Ethridge (b. 1969, Miami) lives and works in New York and is broadly thought to be a number one determine in up to date conceptual images. Working fluidly between business and artwork contexts, Ethridge merges imagery drawn from trend, promoting, and day by day life with art-historical genres, utilizing the true to counsel or disrupt the perfect. His pictures discover the more and more porous boundary between the generic and the private, and the way in which photos achieve new that means by way of sequencing, recombination, and reuse. Ethridge has revealed greater than fifteen books, together with American Polychronic (MACK, 2022), Neighbors (MACK, 2016), Sacrifice Your Body (MACK, 2014), Le Luxe (MACK, 2011), and Rockaway, NY (SteidlMACK, 2007). His business collaborations embrace main ongoing initiatives with Calvin Klein, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. His work has been exhibited broadly within the United States and internationally. Significant solo shows embrace Momentum 4, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2005); Charles Riva Collection, Brussels (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon, and M Museum Leuven (2012–13); and a significant mid-career survey, Nearest Neighbor, on the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, for the 2016 FotoFocus Biennial. Ethridge was included in New Photography 2010 on the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and within the Whitney Biennial (2008). He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011. Ethridge’s work is held in main public collections, together with the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Tate, London.

Vince Aletti is a author and curator based mostly in New York City. His writings on music and images have been revealed broadly. Between 1973 and 1978 Aletti wrote a extremely prescient weekly column on the rising disco scene for Record World journal, and between 1987 and 2005 he was the artwork editor and images critic for The Village Voice. His writings have additionally appeared in The New Yorker, Artforum, and Vogue Italia, amongst many different publications. His guide Issues: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines was revealed by Phaidon in 2019. The Drawer was revealed by Self Publish, Be Happy in September 2022 and went on to win the 2023 Aperture/Paris Photo Photobook of the Year award. An exhibition at White Columns impressed by The Drawer in 2024 was Aletti’s fifth collaboration with the gallery, following on from his 2008 exhibition Male: Work from the Collection of Vince Aletti; the 2014 exhibition of Robert Kitchen’s work, and the 2019 exhibition of Ed Baynard’s work (each curated by Aletti); and the 2008 White Columns publication of Aletti’s collected writings on disco, Disco File, which was subsequently republished in an expanded version by DJ History/D.A.P.

Header picture by Roe Ethridge, Chanel No 5 from 1924 on Tray of Pearls and Mirror Checkerboard, 2025