Michael Pritchard's Blog – March 2016 Archive (17)

As histories of photography are increasingly taking into account photographic practices beyond the Western canon, it remains unclear which methodological tools scholars should take on that journey. Categories and concepts such as colonial photography (including ‘the colonial gaze’) and cultural difference are under…

Bob Crow's PhD thesis on Walter Benington, who started working as a portrait photographer for London studio Elliott and Fry and was a member of the Linked Ring, is now available and can be read, or downloaded, from the University of Gloucestershire's research repository. The abstract…

The New York Public Library has announced the launch of Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC), a collection of biographical data for over 115,000 photographers, studios, manufacturers, dealers, and others involved in the production of photographs. PIC is…

This new publication looks at recent British photographic education through interviews with teachers and educators and research in to current offerings.The author (and BPH member) is Yining He and the book is published as part of The Coastline Series by Chinese publisher Nationality Photographic Art Publishing…

A history, and a biography, Clark Worswick's  ArtMachine: A Reinvention of Photography, 1959-1999 is an insiders view of emergent the photography world of the last quadrant of the 20th century.  It has been written by a practicing photographer, who was also the founding photography curator of the oldest museum in…

The programme for the 14th Image and Research conference has been published and is available here: Imatge_Recerca_programa_ENG.pdf.…

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts presents an exhibition of photographic works by the world-renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Cartier-Bresson: PARIS features 83 images captured between 1929 and 1985, many of which are being shown in the UK for the first time, providing an extraordinary insight…

In celebration of its 170th anniversary Leeds College of Art has announced its next exhibition of work: photographer Ralph Wallis, entitled Is this seat taken?... opening at a special preview evening on 24 March, 5pm-7pm at the College’s Vernon Street building.

Is this seat…

Japanese publisher Akaaka Art Publishing Inc. has published a facsimile of W H F Talbot's The Pencil of Nature with essays by Naoya Hatakeyama, Michael Gray, Masaru Aoyama, Tadashi Kanai and Giuseppe Penone.

Masarou Aoyama’s publication presents the first full Japanese translation of the…

The Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in any area of photographic history. The PHRC is known for its world leading research in social and cultural histories of photography (see…

Sotheby's upcoming auction of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History on 28 April 2016 includes a number of lots of photography. Photograph highlights include:

• Lot 53 A massive panorama of Moscow (1867), 16-parts, with a distinguished provenance
• Lot 60 An album of photographs of New Caledonia by…

The National Media Museum is looking for a creative Associate Curator to join the team in this exciting new role.  Working across the museum’s internationally significant collections of photography, film and television, the Associate Curator of Science and Technology will lead the museum’s contemporary…

With major auctions scheduled for 20 May and 8 June - important photographs from daguerreotypes by De Prangey to modern Russian and international work - MacDougall’s is looking for photography auction specialists and assistants for this exciting…

The National Media Museums holds extensive and internationally significant library and archive collections on the history of photography, film and television.  We are looking for an experienced library and archive professional to create and implement a plan to catalogue and enable access to these collections.  Working…

Photography is at the heart of the art world. With so many dedicated art fairs, auctions, festivals, exhibitions, collections and prizes, photography is also at the core of increasingly diverse contemporary art practices. Today, photography collections and exhibitions reach back to historical and modernist traditions and…

This conference is designed to celebrate the potential, and the actuality, of the new Science Museum Group's (SMG) research culture. In particular, it marks the opening of the Dana Research Centre and Library, a new home for research in South Kensington. The conference will address how research in science museums, and…