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Lecture: Sebastian Dobson - "'Once you have decided to have your photograph taken…' - Matsuzaki Shinji and the Dos and Don'ts of Studio Practice in mid-Meiji Japan"

April 7, 2014 from 4:30pm to 6pm – Amherst College (Fayerweather 117), Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Published in Tokyo in the summer of 1886, the pamphlet Shashin hitsuyô - shakyaku no kokoroe (The Essentials of Photography - Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer) is one of the most unusual… Organized by Five College Center for East Asian Studies (FCCEAS) | Type: lecture

Lecture: Sebastian Dobson - "Glass, Paper and Canvas: John Wilson of Cape Cod and the Advent(ure) of Photography in Japan"

April 8, 2014 at 11pm to April 9, 2014 at 1am – UMass Amherst (CHC Events Hall East), Massachusetts, USA Sebastian Dobson will give a lecture at UMass Amherst on a “Singular Man” from Cape Cod who embarked on an arduous journey to Japan in the early 1860s, the tumultuous last years of the Tokugawa shogu… Organized by Sebastian Dobson | Type: lecture

Courtauld History of Photography Research Seminar- 25th February 2015

February 25, 2015 from 5:30pm to 7pm – Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House, The Strand, London WC2 R0RN The conservation of historic and contemporary photographyIan L. Moor and Angela H. Moor the Centre for Photographic Conservation Organized by Ian L Moor | Type: lecture

Scottish Society for the History of Photography, Annan Lecture

June 22, 2015 from 6pm to 7pm – Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library The guest speaker for the Scottish Society for the History of Photography's annual Annan Lecture 2015 is Anne McNeill. Glasgow born Anne McNeill has been the Director of Impressions Gallery since 200… Organized by Scottish Society for the History of Photography | Type: lecture

Qing Dynasty Peking: Thomas Child's Photographs

November 10, 2015 to November 15, 2015 – China Exchange UK An extensive collection of Thomas Child’s nineteenth-century photographs of Peking, will be exhibited at the China Exchange in London, November 10-15, 2015. Admission is free. Thomas Child was the m… Organized by Stephan Loewentheil | Type: exhibition, talk, photography, lecture

Lecture: "Innocence and Experience: Images of Childhood during the First Half-Century of Photography in Japan"

May 12, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm – Mori-Ogai-Gedenkstätte Although the history of photography in Japan has been the subject of much recent scholarly attention, one aspect of the diffusion of the medium during the Bakumatsu and Meiji eras which remains overl… Organized by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ Mori-Ôgai-Gedenkstätte | Type: lecture

The Wide Margins of Photographic History - Annan Lecture (Roberta McGrath)

May 26, 2016 from 6:30pm to 8pm – Street Level Photoworks This is the latest in an annual series of lectures run by the Scottish Society for the History of Photography (SSHoP). In this major lecture, Dr. Roberta McGrath will consider the importance of othe… Organized by Scottish Society for the History of Photography | Type: lecture

Pradip Malde: Illusion, Transformation and Truth

November 2, 2017 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery Scottish Society for the History of Photography's Annual Photographer’s Lecture will be delivered this year by Pradip Malde. Malde is a widely published and exhibited photographic artist whose divers… Organized by Kirke Kook | Type: lecture

‘The Blind Musician and the Voyeurs’ - George Szirtes

January 23, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – Royal Philatelic Society As Robert Gurbo has been unable to deliver the Inaugural lecture of Photographic Collections in the Colin Ford lecture Series due to ill health we will reschedule later this year. However, we are ha… Organized by Janine P Freeston Chair of the Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society | Type: lecture

I’ve Just Seen a Face: The Preservation of our Global Photographic Heritage

July 10, 2018 from 6pm to 9pm – St Bride Foundation, Bridewell Hall The Icon Photographic Materials Group, Tru Vue and The National Archives, U.K. are delighted to announce an evening lecture by Professor Debra Hess Norris: I’ve Just Seen a Face: The Preservation of… Organized by Icon Photographic Materials Group | Type: lecture