Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: May 6, 2010 to May 7, 2010
Location: The Getty Center
Website or Map: http://www.getty.edu/research…
Event Type: conference
Organized By: Getty Research Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Transforming the Humanities at UCLA
Latest Activity: Mar 8, 2010
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The Middle East and North Africa—identified by 19th-century European travelers as "the Orient"—played essential roles in the development of photography, both as a new technology and as an art form. At the same time, photography played a central role in developing and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the region.
This two-day symposium examines how the Middle East and North Africa were represented through photography by Europeans and non-Europeans who traveled or resided in the region during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Scholarly presentations and moderated discussions explore the relationship between Orientalist photography and other artistic media; the impact of traveling photographers on tourism and commercial photography; the connection between resident photographers and the rise of official photography (local and nationalist); and the ways in which both local and foreign artists, as well as patrons and collectors, contributed to the making—and unmaking—of the Orient.
The symposium is a joint project of the Getty Research Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Transforming the Humanities at UCLA.
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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