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Date: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:22 -0700
From: Craig Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: CFP: on the sensuousness of photographic images.
Call For Papers
Holding objects by way of their likeness: on the sensuousness
of photographic images.
Soliciting abstracts for a session at the Society for Visual
Anthropology/American Anthropological Association meetings.
November 28 to December 2, 2007. Washington, DC.
Please submit your abstracts and other relevant information to Craig
Campbell ([log in to unmask]) for February 25, 2007
Holding objects by way of their likeness: on the sensuousness
of photographic images.
This panel explores the materiality of photography through the individual
and institutional practices of collecting, handling, and displaying
photographic images. The photographic image, as opposed to the photograph
itself, is often characterized by its quasi-magical and apparently mystical
qualities. The mobility of the photographic image and its various
instantiations (as negative, print, and projection, but also as event and
memory) pushes at the boundaries of conventional theories of material
culture. By extension, the photographic image is implicated in shifting
relations of power, memory, and history by virtue of its role in the
visualization of colonial difference and the constitution of otherness.
Papers in this panel will focus on the photographic image in terms of
the tactility of memory and history as well as the politics of
representation bound up in issues of image ownership and access -
especially under 20th and 21st Century conditions of digital reproduction
and proliferation. As a whole, this panel is meant to explore
contemporary theories on the materiality of photography in terms of
encounters with and productions of particular images as well as image
collections themselves. Attention will be paid to the complexity of
meanings produced in the moment of the photographic encounter as well as
the implicit power relations that circumscribe representation. Possible
topics that exemplify individual and institutional practices of collecting,
handling, and displaying photographic images would include: colonial
archives; the tactility of memory; circulation of images in diasporic
contexts; state surveillance; cross-cultural (mis)interpretation of images;
digitization and digital copies, theories of representation, etc.
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Deadline to submit abstracts: February 25, 2006
Relevant links:
Society for Visual Anthropology:
http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/cop-annualmeetin.html
American Anthropological Society: http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
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Craig Campbell
Intermedia Research Studio
www.intermedia.ualberta.ca
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