Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen

Join us for a conversation about the extraordinary life of a pioneering woman photographer with author Bonnie Yochelson as she discusses her latest book, Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen with historian Stephen Vider. 

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the Museum Shop, and attendees will have the opportunity to get their copies signed at the event.

About the Author:

Formerly Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, Bonnie Yochelson is an independent art historian and curator. She has organized exhibitions and published books on Jacob Riis, Alfred Stieglitz and Berenice Abbott, among others. She taught in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, for 30 years. 

Yochelson was awarded a Robert D.L. Gardiner Writing Fellowship by The Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate Center for TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED. She received the full cooperation of Alice Austen House and Historic Richmond Town, which lent generous financial and staff support to the project. 

About the Moderator:

Stephen Vider is Associate Professor of History and co-director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II, published by University of Chicago Press in 2021. He was previously a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Museum of the City, where he curated the exhibition AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism (2017) and co-curated Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York (2016). He is also co-curator of Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture, on view this summer at the Center for Architecture in New York. His popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, Avidly, Time, and Slate, among other places.

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General Admission $15, Members $10