Coventry School of Art and Design and the Herbert Art Gallery are
holding 3 talks on photography in conjunction with the V&A's ‘Something
That I’ll Never Really See' exhibition at the Herbert.
Everyone is welcome, they are free and start at 17:30 at the Herbert Art
Gallery, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP
13th November
*Dan Holdsworth
*Since the late 90s, Dan Holdsworth has developed a reputation as one of
the most innovative British photographers currently working with
landscape. His early series concentrate on the quiet moments in everyday
spaces: office buildings after work, car parks at night and deserted
motorway flyovers. Such subjects are the basis for Holdsworth’s more
recent examination of technology and isolation in modern society. In
more recent years he has traveled internationally, studying the areas
where technology and architecture are representative of an accelerated
economic world at their most removed and alien. The photographs are
silent and iconic, witnesses of our world.
17th November
*Mark Power
*To date Power has published four monographs: The Shipping Forecast, a
poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather
reports in 1996; Superstructure, a documentation of the construction of
London's Millennium Dome in 2000; The Treasury Project, about the
restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument, in 2002: and 26
Different Endings (2007) which looks at those landscapes unlucky enough
to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z (a map which could be said
to define the boundaries of the British capital). Meanwhile, The Sound
of Two Songs - Poland 2004-2008, and A-380, about the development of the
worlds' largest passenger airplane, are both due to be published in 2008.
Mark Power joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, became an
Associate in 2005, and a full Member in 2007. Meanwhile, in his other
life, he is Professor of photography at the University of Brighton.
1st December
*Chrystel Lebas
*Chrystel Lebas has exhibited extensively at international level. Her
photographs appear in several private and public collections including
the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London. Her first book, /Time in Space/, published with the support of
the Arts Council of England, received a British Book Design and
Production Award 2004 and was included in the Rencontres d'Arles Book
Award Exhibition in the same year. Her second monograph /Between Dog and
Wolf /was published in October 2006, by Azure Publishing. A selection of
images from the /Abyss/ and /Between Dog
and Wolf/ series together with the hour long film /Blue Hour/ were
exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London in ‘Twilight:
Photography in The Magic Hour’ in 2006. Lebas's work can be seen as part
of the exhibition ‘Something That I’II Never Really See, Contemporary
Photography from the V&A', at the Herbert Art Gallery until 11 January
2009.
Please see www.theherbert.org for further details
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info
New book: Digitize This Book!
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hall_digitize.html
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