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Photographer and French Author Host Events at Ursinus College on April 7

Artist/chemist France Scully Osterman and French author Marie Darrieussecq will host events at Ursinus College on Monday, April 7.

France Scully Osterman's program, "Joining Art and Science Through Alternative Photographic Processes,” will be held at 5 p.m. in the Berman Museum of Art Front Gallery. She will speak about her series “Nature’s Second Course.”
 
She is an artist, lecturer and guest scholar at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y. She will speak on photographic processes, the chemistry behind them and the works of art she produces with them.

She and her husband, Mark, have evolved as historians and modern masters of a wide variety of historic (alternative) photography, most notably, the wet-plate collodion process. The current artistic revival of collodion photography is a direct result of their influence.

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Marie Darrieussecq will discuss racism in France and how it influenced her latest book, "Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes (One Must Love Men a Lot)" at 7 p.m. in Musser Auditorium in Pfahler Hall.
 
She will be introduced by Colette Trout, Professor of French at Ursinus College, who is writing a book about Darrieussecq’s work. Dr. Trout’s expertise is in contemporary French women writers.

A reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the French and English departments, Le Cercle français, and the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley chapter of the Fulbright Association.

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Darrieussecq recently received the prestigious Prix Médicis for "Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes." The book moves from Los Angeles to the Congo as it follows the biracial relationship between a French white woman and an African man.

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