Episode 28: A Conversation with Leland Rice, Part I

This is the first part of a conversation between Aimee Pflieger and Leland Rice on May 19, 2024. Here, he details his first exposure to photography, his experiences both as a student and as an instructor, and finally the genesis and execution of the first major American exhibition of László Moholy-Nagy’s photographic work. This groundbreaking exhibition and accompanying catalogue of gathers around 75 of the artist’s photographs and photograms and traveled to 21 venues in 4 years, through the summer of 1979.

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Topics guide:

0:00-20:00

Van Deren Coke, University of Florida, Gainesville, Arizona State University, University of New Mexico, Clinton Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, Chouinard Art Institute, John Copelans, Philip Leider, Artforum, Eugene Atget, Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, California State University, San Francisco (San Francisco State), Jack Welpott, John Gutmann, Don Worth, Ruth Bernhard, Ciccone Brothers, Robert Bechtle, Aaron Siskind, Barbara Morgan, Harry Callahan, Jerry Uelsmann, Nathan Lyons, Robert Heinecken, Mills College, Beaumont Newhall, The Latent Image, Henry Fox Talbot, Stan Kenton, Señor Rice and His 6 Hot Tamales, Les Brown, Jr., San Francisco State College, Imogen Cunningham

20:00-40:00

László Moholy-Nagy, John Collier, Jr., Farm Security Administration, The Ethnographic Approach to Photography, California College of Arts and Crafts, Robert Forth, Indiana University, Jack Welpott, Jerry Uelsmann, Henry Holmes Smith, Gemini G.E.L., Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Friedlander, Jim Dine, Wynn Bullock, Brett Weston, California School of Fine Arts, Minor White, Ansel Adams ,Edward Weston, Robert Heinecken, University of California, Los Angeles, Pomona College, Lewis Baltz, San Francisco Art Institute, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Serra, Castelli Graphics, Marvin Heiferman, James Turrell, Judy Fiskin, University of California, Riverside, Melinda Wirtz, Dr. Robert Bingham, William Larsen, Nathan Lyons, Dave Heath

40:00-60:00

Aaron Siskind, Institute of Design, Museum of Modern Art, Beaumont Newhall, David McAlpin, Alfred Barr, Ansel Adams, Milton Halberstadt, John Szarkowski, Penland School of Art, Barbara Kasten, Henry Holmes Smith, Indiana University, Minicam Photography magazine, Hattula Moholy-Nagy

1:00:00-1:20:00

Frederick Sommer, Wanda Lee Smith, Lucia Moholy-Nagy, Lloyd Engelbrecht, Nathan Lerner, Kiyoko Lerner, Sylvia Wolf, Walter Gropius, Lloyd Englebrecht, Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Ozman, Jacob Zeitlin, Eugene and Dorothy Prakapas, Anne Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Malcolm Daniel, Robert Zapatian, Roger Perry, Maurice Tabard, František Drtikol