Registration closes 21 July:
The Business of War Photography:
Producing & Consuming Images of Conflict
Durham University and DLI Museum
& Durham Art Gallery, UK
31 July & 1 August 2014
This two day international
conference examines war photography as the result of pragmatic and
strategic transactions and interactions concerning business, militarism and
consumption. International speakers, including scholars, curators, picture editors
and artists, will address the ways in which issues of supply and demand have
shaped the field of war photography, and how this field has articulated with
other forms of industrialised and commercial activity.
Speakers include Colin Harding
(National Media Museum); Kevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman (University of
Illinois); Anthony Penrose (Lee Miller Archives); Patricia Nelson (Stockholm
School of Economics); and Lívia Bonadio (Telegraph Magazine). Chairs include
David Campbell (independent), Hilary Roberts (Research Curator of
Photography, Imperial War Museum), Stuart Allan (Professor of Journalism and
Communication, Cardiff University), and Janet Stewart (Director of Centre for
Visual Arts and Cultures, Durham University).
The diverse papers encompass a range
of geographic regions and modes of conflict from the early twentieth century to
the present day, and reflect upon the relevance to war photography of commerce,
industry, the military and marketing, as well as the role of workers,
publishers, politicians, strategists, purchasers and consumers.
Subjects addressed include the
British Army's use of Facebook; pictorial magazines of the Chinese Communist
Party; photographic postcards from the First World War in Luxembourg;
photo-albums of Finnish soldiers in the Continuation War 1941–1944; and
contemporary sniper photographs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Register by 21 July / £55
A limited number of concessionary
places are available at £30
Organisers and partners
Location
The conference is held at Collingwood College, Durham University, UK. The
opening session and an evening reception are held at Durham Light Infantry
Museum & Durham Art Gallery, with the opportunity to view the photographic
exhibition The Home Front by Melanie Friend, an Impressions
Gallery touring exhibition curated by Pippa Oldfield.
Contact
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