London based critters might be interested in the below
Apologies, as ever, for cross-postings
Dear all,
The Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities is pleased to announce that Professor Joan M. Schwartz (Queen's University Canada) will give the third Denis Cosgrove Lecture on the 23rd May 2018, at RHUL in Egham, 6.15 pm.
Joan's lecture is entitled: Lives and Afterlives: The Photographic Lens and Legacy of Frederick Dally.
Elizabeth Edwards, Visting Professor at the V&A Research Institute will act as respondent.
The abstract, and further details are below.
The event is free to attend, but please do book a place on Eventbrite so we can organise refreshments:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3rd-denis-cosgrove-lecture-lives-and-afterlives-the-photographic-lens-and-legacy-of-frederick-dally-tickets-44717176278
Any questions please do get in touch
best wishes
Harriet
Abstract:
In 1866, the young Englishman Frederick Dally opened a photographic studio in Victoria, at the time, capital of the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island. In the remarkable visual legacy he produced over the next four years, we can discern the origins of an enduring vision of British Columbia—as an outpost of Empire, as a gold rush colony, as a Royal Naval station, as the home of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. We can also recognize the power of photography as a tool of documentation, visualization, and imagination.
Dally's images reflect ideas about land and life brought to British Columbia by government administrators, Royal Engineers, and Royal Navy officers; by miners, merchants, and settlers. Compiled into personal narratives of colonial service, commercial enterprise, and individual initiative, his portraits and views helped to reinforce old world values and shape new world traditions. Pasted into albums taken back east, enclosed in letters sent abroad, published as engravings in books and the illustrated press, they have helped to focus our thinking, shape our writing, and construct our ideas about place and progress, identity and belonging in British Columbia.
Many of Dally’s images have become icons of British Columbia history. In this paper, I follow the lives and afterlives of some of these images as they moved through time and across spaces, both physical and digital. With an emphasis on context and meaning, order and materiality, this foray into oeuvre and archive sheds light on the role Dally’s photographs played in shaping both Victorian understandings of the nineteenth-century present and contemporary understandings of the Victorian past.
Joan M. Schwartz is Professor and Head, Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, where she teaches courses in the history of photography. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen's and is also an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. She holds a B.A (Hons) from the University of Toronto, an MA (supervised by Cole Harris) from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (supervised by Brian Osborne) from Queen's. A specialist in photography acquisition and research at the National Archives of Canada for more than two decades prior to her faculty appointment in 2003, she is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and the Society of American Archivists.
Joan Schwartz has published and lectured widely in the fields of archives, historical geography, and the history of photography, and has served on the editorial boards of The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2004) and the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth‐century Photography (2007). She co‐edited Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (with James Ryan for I.B.Tauris, 2003) and Archives, Record, and Power, two double issues of Archival Science (with Terry Cook in 2002).
Her research focuses on photography in nineteenth-century visual culture and on the relationship of photography and archives to notions of place, identity, and memory. With the support of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she is engaged in a four-year project entitled, “Picturing 'Canada': Photographic Images and Geographical Imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889.” She is currently preparing an exhibition and book on nineteenth-century British Columbia photographer Frederick Dally for the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria.
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