THE PHOTOBOOK - A CONFERENCE

Organised by the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck;

King’s College American Studies; and the University of Kent French Studies.

Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council

 

Places are free but must be booked

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Birkbeck Cinema, 46 Gordon Sq London WC1

friday 3 and saturday 4 april 2009

(9:30^am to 6^pm & 10^am to 1:30^pm)

 

Photobooks have played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of photographic culture. This conference brings together speakers from different disciplines to discuss new ideas and approaches to reading, touching, and looking at the photobook in its totality.

 

Speakers include:

Caroline Blinder: articulating the American depression

David Campany: books and magazines - photographs on the page

Paul Castro: Eduardo Gageiro’s Lisbon in the dock of memory

Patrizia Di Bello: sculpture and the photobook

David Evans: appropriations in post-communist photobooks

Mick Gidley: Hoppe’s Romantic America

Gabriel Koureas: Orhan Pamouk’s melancholic narrative

Annebella Pollen: One Day for Life

Graham Smith: Talbot’s Sun Pictures in Scotland

Ian Walker: Twenty Six Gasoline Stations

Liz Wells: From exhibition catalogue to photobook

Colette Wilson: the photobooks of Carlos Freire

Shamoon Zamir: Edward Curtis’s work as photobook