Bard Breakfast 2008
The 2008 Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit
With guest speaker James Sanders
New York Preserved on Film: Visual Archives of the City
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: James Sanders is a noted author, architect, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. In addition to his book Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, and the recent multimedia exhibit based on the book in Grand Central Terminal, Mr. Sanders co-authored New York: An Illustrated History and co-wrote the award-winning eight-part PBS series New York: A Documentary Film in collaboration with Ric Burns. He recently wrote, co-designed, and co-directed Timescapes, the permanent orientation installation at the Museum of the City of New York. Mr. Sanders is a recipient of a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, is a member of the Advisory Council of the AIA's Center for Architecture, and is the director of the Center for Urban Experience, a research and design institute dedicated to exploring innocative ways of understanding and experiencing the urban environment.