Don Snyder

Biography

Don Snyder studied photography with Walker Evans at Yale and Minor White in the graduate program at MIT. He originally worked as a freelance/commercial photographer in the Boston area; he was later appointed Curator of Photography at the Addison Gallery of American Art and a faculty member in the Art Department of Phillips Academy, Andover. He has written extensively on photographic history and theory, and at Ryerson was instrumental in developing the Ryerson Gallery, the Photography Workshop in France, the Photography Studies Certificate program, and the Quebec/Ontario Symposium project. He has held appointments at SUNY Buffalo and Bennington College; recent guest lectures include Northeastern University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Durham College School of Design and Communication Arts.

Conference

"Drawn, Printed, Painted: Proliferating Screens from the Pre-digital Era."

This will be a brief presentation of multiple narratives and overlapping frames that prefigure what a contemporary audience finds on multiple screens today.

recent texts can be found at www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/dsnyder