The event is free and all are welcome. No need to register or pay.
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From: Association for Photography in Higher Education [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Janine Freeston
Sent: 15 June 2012 11:17
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Subject: Re: Photography, the Archive and the City - A Series of Conversations
Dear Darren,
I would be delighted to attend the Thursday 28 June talk 'On Becoming the Magnum Archive – Alison Nordström'.
Unfortunately the Monday is already blocked off. Do I need to book register or pay in advance?
Is there a possibility of visiting the Library archive on that day as well as I would really like to get to know more about the wealth of resources Birmingham has.
Regards
Janine
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From: Darren Newbury <[log in to unmask]>
To: APHE <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:58
Subject: Photography, the Archive and the City - A Series of Conversations
Photography, the Archive and the City
A Series of Conversations organised by the Birmingham Photography and
Archive Research Group
http://bit.ly/bpargpac
Birmingham City University and Birmingham Central Library are
collaborating to present a series of free, public conversations with
some of the world’s leading photographers, curators, historians and
theorists of photography to share their ideas and experiences of
working with photography and the archive in order to situate local
debates in a global context.
Monday 25th June 2012, 6.00pm
Library Theatre, off Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3HQ
The Shadow of a Dark Horse in Low Light – Adam Broomberg and Oliver
Chanarin
This talk will focus on the artists’ practice of working with and
responding to historical photographs and collections. Broomberg and
Chanarin explore the task of the artist to disturb the ordered
categories of the archive, uncovering hidden gestures and narratives
and reactivating cultural memory.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are artists living and working in
London. Their latest book War Primer 2 is published by MACK (2011).
They teach at the School of Visual Arts in New York, are Visiting
Fellows at the University of the Arts London and will be running a
semester at ZHdK in Zurich this autumn.
Thursday 28th June 2012, 6.00pm
Library Theatre, off Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3HQ
On Becoming the Magnum Archive – Alison Nordström
The talk will examine the transition of the Magnum ‘picture library’
from its original status as a collec.on of images and a tool for doing
business to a photographic ‘archive’ housed at the University of Texas.
In doing so it tracks the parallel shift in thinking about photography
that has taken place over recent decades, accompanied by the digital
turn.
Alison Nordstrom is Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House,
Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York. She has curated
over 100 exhibitions of photography including major surveys of
landscape, portraiture, travel photographs and journalism.
Joining Alison to discuss the issues raised in her talk will be Nick
Galvin, former Archive Director, Magnum Photos, London
For further information go to: http://bit.ly/bpargpac
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