Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: September 4, 2018 to September 5, 2018
Location: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts University of Sussex
Event Type: symposium, conference, film, screening
Organized By: Piotr Cieplak
Latest Activity: May 28, 2018
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The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context of large-scale violence and death has a long history. Private images have been continually employed to access worlds that no longer exist, to de-anonymize, individualize or humanize victims, to identify murderers and the murdered, to evidence contested events and to prove the existence of life before death. They populate archives, memorials and museums, places of public protest and, increasingly, myriad regions of the internet.
Yet in this movement from the private to public, from intimacy to historical significance, private images undergo transitions (including for example displacement, re-contextualization and politicization) in a manner that raises critical challenges for both commemorative practices and those to whom the images initially belonged. To what extent, as some scholars have argued, does this use of private images become part of a trend to globalize and homogenize commemoration, such that local contexts are overwritten? Similarly, where are issues of access, copyright and meaning addressed, particularly with the rise of the digital, and state-controlled, centralized memory-making?
We will be joined by:
Members of the Rwanda Genocide Archivein Kigali and Archivo Provincial de la Memoria in Córdoba, Argentina.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Ludmila da Silva Catela(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba); Claver Irakoze (Aegis Trust/Rwanda Genocide Archive in Kigali); Professor Elizabeth Edwards.
A screening of The Faces We Lost (2017) followed by a Q&A with the director.
We invite contributions to both the roundtable discussions and more traditional conference papers.
Deadline for abstracts: 9th July 2018.
Details of how to submit an abstract:
http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/call-for-participants/
We are particularly interested in hearing from practitioners and early career researchers.Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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