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PHOTOGRAPHY NEXT
International conference in Stockholm 4-5 February 2010
This conference presents two themes, ”Photography and Word” and “Photography and Education”, each focusing on key issues under current development in the international research field. The first day of this two-day conference will include talks by a handful of internationally renowned speakers from the university and museum sector. The event is open to all scholars of photography in universities, museums and archives. The second day will include parallel seminars where the participants have the opportunity to present academic papers within the two themes.
Photography and Word is open to consider a variety of verbal supplements to photography. From the observation that photographs are highly sensitive to spoken and written language, we invite investigations and experimentation in hermeneutical processing, design manual development, juridical controversies, theoretical analysis as well as artistic, curatorial and journalistic practices. Thus we may highlight problems relating to copyright and/or protection of individual privacy; dissemination and organization of digitized photographic collections; visual rhetoric in political and/or commercial arenas; syntagmatic and paradigmatic modes of producing illustrated meaning; manufacturing evidence of criminal/immoral conduct or the use of language in photographic exhibitions.
Photography and Education considers photography as a tool and a subject for education. A) The role of photography in teaching; in history books, educational materials, museums exhibitions. B) Photography taught; from amateur photo classes to public education and professional courses. What have been the intentions behind teaching photography and what have been the dominant values? C) Practical photography as means of education and research, from art school’s examination of self, gender, and discourse to research practices that rely on photographic records and documentation. D) Transversal production of generic standards and habits among closed circuits of producers, distributors and consumers.
Confirmed keynote speakers
Martin Barnes is Senior Curator of Photography at Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Since 1997 he has worked on the Photography Gallery at the V&A. His special interests include architecture, 19th-century and contemporary fine-art photography. Selected publications: Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens, V & A Publications/2001; Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Merrell Publishers Ltd/2006; Record of England: Sir Benjamin Stone and the National Photographic Record Association 1897 -1910, Dewi Lewis Publishing/2006.
Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and holds a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of the Arts in London (London College of Communication). Edwards was formerly the Head of Photograph Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Selected publications: Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920, Yale University Press/1994, Raw Histories Photographs, Anthropology and Museums Berg Publishers/2001; Photographs Object Histories: On the Materiality of Images Routledge/2004; Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture, Berg Publishers/2006.
André Gunthert holds a PhD in Art History and is associate professor at the EHESS, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales as the director of Laboratory for Contemporary Visual History/Laboratoire d’ and histoire visuelle contemporaine (Lhivic). Guntherts is the founder of the peer-reviewed journal Etudes Photographiques. His research on the history of digital images can be consulted on his blog: Actualités de la recherche en histoire visuelle<http://www.arhv.lhivic.org>. http://www.arhv.lhivic.org/. Selected publications: L’Art de la photographie des origines à nos jours<http://www.arhv.lhivic.org/index.php/2007/10/15/522-l-art-de-la-photographie>, Citadelles/Mazenod, 2007 ; Die Eroberung der Bilder. Fotografie in Buch und Presse ( 1816 - 1914), Fink (Wilhelm)/2003.
Call for papers
Abstracts (250 word maximum) can be submitted until 1 October 2009. State your name, affiliation and contact information and under what theme your paper would fit. Send your abtract to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Dates: 4-5 February 2010
Venue: Nordiska museet and Moderna museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Last date for submitting abstracts: 1 October 2009.
Last day for entries for participation on lecture day only: 1 November
Number of participants are limited. We will give priority to those presenting papers.
Detailed program: November 2009
Organising committee
Behind the conference Photography Next stands a group of four Nordic researchers in photography, all members of the Nordic network for the History and Aesthetics of Photography (funded by Nordforsk 2003-2007).
Anna Dahlgren is research fellow at Nordiska museet, currently involved in a research project on photo albums enabled by a postdoctoral fellowship from Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien.
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Kimmo Lehtonen is lecturer in the International Masters programme on Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is a founding member of The Centre for Creative Photography and has been a director of the same association since 1994.
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Dag Petersson is associate professor at The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, currently finishing a research project on Jacob A. Riis and working on a project about the ethics of space, scale and representation. He is editorial board member of Photographies.
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Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir is art historian and curator, Assistant Professor at the University Iceland, Art History Department. Recent curated exhibitions: 2008 Dreams of the Sublime in Contemporary Icelandic Art, Reykjavík Art Museum and Bozar Brussels.
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The conference Photography Next is made possible through
the generous support of the Swedish Research Council.
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