Happy New Year everyone!!!
I have an interesting conference invite some of you would like to attend.
Best
Maciej
The Business of Photography
Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
When: 17-18 June 2019
Where: De Montfort University, Leicester UK (Room TBC).
Registration: Not Open Yet
Conference Programme: TBC
Keynote speakers: TBC
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Paper proposal deadline: 25 January 2019
‘Business’ can have many meanings. In the most straightforward sense, it refers to the photographic marketplace, its industry and the commercial relations established among different agents. Some of these actors, such as studios and companies of the like of Kodak and Ilford, are specifically photographic and have featured prominently in histories of photography. But the photographic business also depends on other social, cultural and economic agents like chemical supply companies, image brokers, content providers, commissioning editors, advertising campaign managers and digitization officers, among others.
Especially since the beginning of the 21st century, historians have begun to pay attention to the broader implications of what one might call ‘the business of photography’. In this sense, it is not only about commerce and trade, but also about visual and material economies, where photography and the many worlds and people it affects directly or indirectly negotiate, define or transform social, cultural, political, scientific, and other ideological environments as well as values.
In this 7th annual conference of the PHRC, we invite 20-minute papers stretching the notion of ‘the business of photography’. While not neglecting the transformative role of photographic companies and that of photographers as businessmen and women, we encourage submissions that stretch our understanding of ‘business’ to the circulation of and the impact exerted by photographic images, objects and raw materials. We invite papers that think outside of the box, and address themes like:
Photographic recycling
The life of photographic raw materials
Gender and photographic businesses
The marketization of individual and collective identities
Photographic image banks
Photography in political and financial economies
Photography in the heritage industry
Photographs, photographers and algorithms
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to [log in to unmask] no later than Friday, the 25th of January 2019.
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