Author Talk: Rick Schatzberg “The Boys” in conversation with Christopher Little

Date: 12/29/2020
Time: 5:30 pm-6:30 pm

When two old friends died unexpectedly, Rick Schatzberg spent the next two years photographing the remaining group of a dozen men. Now in their 67th year, they have been close since early childhood. Schatzberg collected vintage photos that tell the story of this shared history and uses them to introduce each individual as they are today. These are paired with large-format portraits which connect the boy to the man. Mixing in text with these images, Schatzberg depicts friendship, aging, loss, and memory as the group arrives at the threshold of old age. The Boys juxtaposes elements of place, personal history, and identity. The people and locale described are a specific product of the mid-20th-century suburban American landscape, but the book’s themes are universal. In conversation with photographer Christopher Little via Zoom, Schatzberg will visit themes of aging, loss, and deep friendship. The Boys is available for purchase at the independent book store network bookshop.org as well as on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Rick Schatzberg is a photographer living and making work in Brooklyn, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut. He received his MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford in 2018. Rick holds a degree from Columbia University in Anthropology (1978), played French horn with Cecil Taylor’s jazz ensemble in the 1970s, and was a business executive and entrepreneur in the New York metropolitan area for many years. In 2015, he completed a one-year certificate program at the International Center of Photography. In the same year, his first monograph, Twenty Two North (self-published) was awarded first prize at Australia’s Ballarat Foto International Biennale.

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