November 9th, 6 to 8 pm
Different Trains Gallery
6 - 8 pm
Join us Thursday, November 9, from 6 to 8pm, for a conversation with veteran photojournalist Ron Sherman and Randy Gue, curator of Ron's exhibition, "Sex Pistols, Atlanta, 1978", presented by Emory University's Rose Library at Different Trains Gallery.
The gallery will open at 6pm and the talk starts at 7.
Ron's illustrious photographic career spans more than five decades, mostly based in his adopted hometown of Atlanta. He was one of the lucky few at the Great Southeast Music Hall on January 5, 1978, assigned by Newsweek Magazine to document the Sex Pistols first US performance - the night that Punk Rock arrived in the South.
Ron and Randy will touch on that historic event, as well as a highlight reel of others that Ron has captured through his lens. Many of his iconic photographs are featured in his forthcoming new book, "Witness, a Photographic Essay of Humor and Heart".
To quote Randy Gue, Emory University's Rose Library Archivist:
"The fevered pace of growth in Atlanta ensures the city's past ends up demolished, pushed aside, or forgotten. Ron Sherman's photographs document and preserve the giants whose shoulders we all stand on: Henry Aaron, Jimmy Carter, Maynard Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and Andrew Young, to name just a few. The stories and places associated with these figures are difficult to find in the city's landscape, but they are here-vibrant and dynamic-in Ron's photos."
