Andrea Modica, acclaimed photographer, will discuss her work at a public lecture and slide presentation in the Ball Hall auditorium at 2 p.m. on Friday.
Students and the public may attend free of charge.
ETSU tries to present students with opportunities like this at least once, sometimes twice a year, said Mike Smith, professor of art and the photography coordinator.
“This is a great thing for students for several reasons,” Smith said. “One is that there is very little good, high quality art in East Tennessee, particularly in the field of photography.
This gives student the opportunity to see an experience something that is not often available to them. Modica has such a strong national name, that it brings credit to the university,” Smith said.
“The other reason is that she is very young although she is very accomplished, so she is able to relate well to the students and has set an example of superior accomplishments.”
Modica accomplishments include winning the Guggen-heim Award in 1994, and publishing a book in 1996 entitled Treadwell.
Maria Hambourg, the director of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote the introduction, and Pulitzer Prize winner, E. Annie Proulx, wrote the preface.
The Smithsonian Institute also published a monograph of her photographs of minor league baseball players in 1993.
Modica has worked on a variety of editorial and corporate projects, including portraits of fathers and their children for The Fathers Foundation.
She has also participated in a series on adopted children, and an in-depth study of 100-year-old skeletons and skulls from a potter’s field that is being excavated. She is recognized in Women Photographers and has collections in several museums including The Museum of Modern Art, and the Biblio-theque Nationale in Paris.
Mosica received her master’s degree in photography from Yale University and is now working as the artist in residence at the International Center of Photo-graphy in New York.
The presentation is sponsored by ETSU Student Photography Association with funds provided by the Student Government Association through 606 allocations. Call 439-4247 for more information.

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