A conversation between artists

Rose Marasco & Catherine DeLattre

moderated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz

On Friday, September 8 at 12:00 PM, OSMOS (Booth #314) will host a conversation between photographers Rose Marasco and Catherine DeLattre at Javits Center as part of PHOTOFAIRS New York 2023.

This event will also serve as the book launch of "Rose Marasco: At Home" (OSMOS Books, New York, 2023), a memoir and meditation on the history of photography from one of New England’s most respected artists. The book features Marasco’s short personal writings on topics ranging from artist residencies and iPhone photography to Catholic saints, the early death of her father, her first crush on a woman and teaching. Selections from five decades of Rose Marasco’s prolific photographic oeuvre are discussed in the texts by Tom McDonough, John Yau, Frank Gohlke, and Lucy Lippard, whose foreword situates Marasco as a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography.

Additionally, this conversation will take place following the opening of Catherine DeLattre’s solo exhibition, Shoppers: Broadway Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80 at OSMOS Address, New York.

The conversation will be mediated by OSMOS’ director, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.

Rose Marasco is a prolific photographer and award-winning educator. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Southern Maine. Marasco developed the photography department at USM where she taught for 35 years. Prior to this, Marasco initiated the photography department at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in her hometown, Utica, NY. 

Catherine DeLattre grew up in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a small town near the heavily industrial area of Pittsburgh. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she studied archaeology at Kent State where a course in basic photography was a requirement for recording in archaeological digs. That led her to the Art Photography program at Purdue where the focus was on black-and-white, but where DeLattre became more interested in color under the influence of her teacher Vern Cheek, and the then contemporary color work of photographers such as William Eggleston, Joe Maloney, Joel Meyerowitz, Jan Groover, Eve Sonneman and Joel Sternfeld. After a series of teaching gigs that took her from Rockport, Maine to Poughkeepsie, by 1979 DeLattre had saved enough money to move to New York City where she found a $200/month sublet on the Upper West Side and a part time job teaching darkroom at ICP.