A Photographic Life - 306: Plus Deborah Dash Moore

In episode 305 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the democratization of photography preventing the challenge of the new, the process being less important than the outcome and he reads some listeners letters. This episode is dedicated to the memory of photographer Stuart Pilkington. Plus this week, writer, editor and curator Deborah Dash Moore takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’ Deborah Dash Moore was born in New York City and is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Dash Moore earned her bachelor's degree in history from Brandeis University and continued her education at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in history in 1968 and her Ph.D. in 1975. She taught for many years at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and wrote and co-edited numerous books, articles and collections. Her first book, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews was published in 1981 and her second To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A. in 1994. In 1997 her co-edited two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia was published. In 2004 her book, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation, was awarded The Washington Post Best Book of the Year. In 2008, she published American Jewish Identity Politics a collection of essays and in 2011, her book Gender & Jewish History was awarded a National Jewish Book Award. In 2012, NYU Press published a three-volume series edited by Moore, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York. In 2016, she was named Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and in 2023 her book Walkers in the City was published which draws on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/deborahdashmoore/ Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott’s next book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on pre-sale. © Grant Scott 2024