Visiting Photographer to Give Lecture At UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Visiting photographer Jeffrey Hoone will give a lecture and slide presentation on his photography series titled "Hook Line & Sinker" at 4 p.m. March 25 in the Screening Room, Room 112, in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

"Hook Line & Sinker," according to Hoone, "is a series of photographs of objects that are named for, and described by their form, function, or use. The title of the series, like the saying, plays off the idea of being taken in, or surprised."

Hoone explores the complex and subtle ways in which descriptions become communication by looking at the verbal and visual language associated with everyday objects.

"By allowing the descriptive meanings of words we use everyday to become invisible, we lose the poetry of their communication," he notes. "It is my aim to acknowledge the elegance that links our visual and verbal language, and celebrate the descriptive clarity that photographs make possible."

Currently the director of Light Work/Community Darkrooms in Syracuse, Hoone has published more than 150 articles and essays about contemporary artists for various publications and his work has been exhibited nationwide. In 1998, he received a Photography Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences.