Ron Tarver
Award-winning photographer will share his story at Stockton University’s annual Al Gold Memorial Lecture Series.
Ron Tarver will present "Ron Tarver: Forty Years an Idea" at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Campus Center Theater in Galloway Township.
Tarver is an American artist and associate professor of art, specializing in photography, at Swarthmore College.
Distinguished Professor of Art Wendel A. White will give opening remarks, followed by an introduction from Vicki Gold-Levi, picture editor, author and daughter of Al Gold.
Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize with the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a staff photographer for 32 years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in more than 50 solo exhibitions, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. His new book “The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America” was released in August.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Admission is free.
The series is named for Al Gold, Atlantic City’s first chief photographer.
During his tenure, he photographed many of the city’s most iconic moments in history, including the Miss America pageants and numerous celebrities taking a stroll on the Boardwalk.
He held this position from 1939 until he passed away in 1964. To keep his memory alive, Gold-Levi and White created the Al Gold Memorial Lecture Series, which brings a distinguished speaker (typically within arts and culture) to campus every year.
