Birkbeck's History and Theory of Photography Research Centre has announced its summer seminar programme. The events are free and open to all at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.
Wednesday 6 May, 6-7:30
Room 112
Work in Progress Seminar
Raul Valdivia (Birkbeck, Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Popular or vernacular photography in Peru
This paper explores how the act of photographing the ‘masas populares’ by the masses themselves is part of a representational process where aesthetic and political elements are combined to create counter-hegemonic visual narratives and histories from below.
Tuesday 12 May, 7-9
Room 112
Reading Group
Jacques Derrida, ‘The Deaths of Roland Barthes’, The Work of Mourning (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001) 31-67
Wednesday 20 May, 6-8:00
Panel Discussion
Room G04
Photographs of London
Tom Allbeson (Nottingham) on Herbert Mason, ‘St Paul's’, 29 December 1940; Lynda Nead (Birkbeck) on Bert Hardy, ‘Life in the Elephant’, Picture Post, January 1949; Ian Walker (Newport) on Thomas Struth, ‘Clinton Road’ 1977; Responding: Mike Seaborne (Freelance, formerly Museum of London).
Please book your free place
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