Deitcher is faculty at ICP/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies and will be speaking at both Syracuse University and at the ArtRage Gallery on a panel with the collector and curator of  Men Only – Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection from the collection of Willam Knodel, curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Born in Montreal, Canada, David Deitcher is a writer, art historian, and critic whose  essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, the Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on such artists as Felix Gonzales-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

He is the author of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 and curator of the exhibition of the same name that appeared at the International Center of Photography in New York. He was the editor of The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall (Scribner, 1995). He has been core faculty at the International Center of Photography/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies since 2003 as well as core faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts /Visual Arts Department since 1997. He lives in New York City.David Deitcher, author and curator of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918, which was on view at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) in 2001.

5pm – Syracuse University, Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

8pm – The ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue @ N. Crouse

David Deitcher’s visit is made possible by Syracuse University through the sponsorship of Light Work/Community Dark Rooms, The College of Arts and Sciences, the LGBT Studies Program, the LGBT Resource Center, the departments of Transmedia, History, Art and Music Histories, and Communication and Rhetorical Studies.