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Scottish Society for the History of Photography Annual Photographer’s Lecture 2012

November 1, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland A talk by Peter Kennard, Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Kennard is an acclaimed photographic artist who abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of new forms o… Organized by Scottish Society for the History of Photography | Type: lecture

History of Photography Annual Lecture 2013

April 24, 2013 from 4:15pm to 5:30pm – University of St Andrews (Old Union Diner) This year the History of Photography Annual Lecture will be delivered at the University of St Andrews by Dr. Patrizia di Bello, Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. The journal 'History… Organized by Luke Gartlan | Type: lecture

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 - "'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