EVENT: SEEING SLOWLY: THE ANALOG IN PHOTOGRAPHY, 18th Feb, 18:30
To mark the launch of major project to digitise the Architectural Association Archives' historic lantern slide collection, a distinguished panel of speakers will discuss the resurgence of the analog, the spectre of a digital dark age and the meaning and challenges of photographic seeing within the analog and the digital. The event will be chaired by Sue Barr and speakers include Daniel Blochwitz, Juliet Hacking, Gil Pasternak and John Spinks.
18th February, 2019, at 18:30 (AA Lecture Hall), Architectural Association 34-36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES
Speakers Bios:
Sue Barr holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art and is head of Photography at the AA. She works and exhibits internationally, most recently as part of the AutoPhoto exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Daniel Blochwitz is an independent curator as well as artistic director of photo basel, the Swiss art fair dedicated to photography and photo-based art. He has taught photography in courses, workshops and lectures at various universities and schools in the United States and Europe and his own photo-based work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Juliet Hacking is Programme Director for Sotheby’s Institute of Art MA course in Contemporary Art. Prior to this, she held the position of Head of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house in London. She is the author of 'Lives of the Great Photographers' (2015), general editor of 'Photography: The Whole Story' (2012), and has recently published ‘Photography and the Art Market’ (2018).
Gil Pasternak is Reader in Social and Political Photographic Cultures in the Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) at De Montfort University, where he also leads the Photographic History MA Programme. Earlier in his career he worked as a photojournalist and a war photographer in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and in South Lebanon. He also practiced fine art photography and presented his work in a number of art galleries, including Tate Modern, the ICA, Machida Municipal Print Museum (Tokyo) and Kodeljevo Grad (Slovenia).
John Spinks is a renowned photographer who started his early career in fashion portraiture and commercial work for publications including Vogue, The Face, i-D, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and the New York Times. He has also contributed to campaigns for Levi’s, Selfridges, Shinola and the menswear label Albam. His more recent work includes the evocative and highly acclaimed book, ‘The New Village’ (Bemojake, 2017) - a portrait of a Warwickshire mining village taken over a 17 year period using large format, 10 x 8 plates.
Edward Bottoms
Head of Archives
Architectural Association
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