(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Award-winning photographer Ron Tarver is this year's speaker at Stockton University's annual Al Gold Memorial Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. The lecture will begin at 2:30pm in the Campus Center Theater and is followed by a reception. Admission is free.
Tarver is an American artist and associate professor of Art, specializing in photography, at Swarthmore College. Tarver will present “Ron Tarver: Forty Years an Idea” with opening remarks from Distinguished Professor of Art Wendel A. White and an introduction by Vicki Gold-Levi, picture editor, author and daughter of Al Gold.
Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize with the Philadelphia Inquirer where he was a staff photographer for 32 years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in more than 50 solo exhibitions, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. His new book “The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America” was released in August.
Al Gold was Atlantic City’s first chief photographer. During his tenure, he photographed many of the city’s most iconic moments in history, including the Miss America pageants and numerous celebrities taking a stroll on the Boardwalk. He held this position from 1939 until he passed away in 1964. To keep his memory alive, Gold-Levi and White created the Al Gold Memorial Lecture Series, which brings a distinguished speaker (typically within arts and culture) to campus every year.
Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Their more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at their coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.
