Free talk in Liverpool by the American arts and trade union activist.

Fred Lonidier is one of the leading pioneers from the late 1960s onwards, of the arts and trade union movement in the USA. He studied at Yuba College and San Francisco State (graduate work in sociology and photography), and later joined the University of California at San Diego Faculty in 1972. His work continues to deal with the possibilities of photography applied to trade union campaigns for social justice, labor history, and social change. He has also been the guiding energy behind the pioneer US Trade Union sponsored Labor Link TV which cablecasts on three channels in San Diego County. His work has recently focused on workers rights and cross-border labor struggles and solidarity between U.S. and Mexican workers.

Selected reviews of his professional art work include: “Photography and Social Practice” Natalie Haddad, FRIEZE No 140, June 1911; "Labor, Art & Ideology" catalog, Benjamin Buchloh, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, 1984; "Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary...," Allan Sekula, Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo Works 1973-1983, October, 1984; "Toward a New Social Documentary," Grant Kester, Afterimage, March, 1987;; "Class Pictures: Teaching About Photography to Labor Studies Students," Courses taught by Lonidier include Introduction to Photography, Photographic Strategies, Camera Techniques, Labor History To-day, Generating the Narrative, and Art and Politics. www.frieze.com/issue/review/fred-lonidier/

Co-ordinated by Littoral Arts Trust in association with Critical Network, Strategies for Free Education, and the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool.

Admission free. To book a ticket please email P.H.Adams@liverpool.ac.uk and/or littoral@btopenworld.com

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