The RPS Historical Group has a number events both live and online coming up which may be of interest to BPH readers:
- 4 October. The Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group, in collaboration with Sheffield Museums Trust and Museum Friends, is delighted to invite you to Meet the Author. Did you know that the first moving pictures were created in Yorkshire? Internationally renowned author Paul Fischer will read from his new book The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures and discuss this true tale of obsession, murder and the movies, with Geoff Blackwell ARPS. He will answer questions from guests and the evening will conclude with a book signing.
https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3Vy8h - 25 October. The 2022 Hurter and Driffield Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jennifer Tucker of Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Her lecture is entitled: Moving Beyond the 'Mug Shot': Expanding the Frame for the Study of Forensic Photography in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Professor Tucker will address a neglected topic in visual legal studies; that is, the rising use and circulation of photographs for gathering evidence and witness testimony during the 1860s and 1870s, when colonial and metropolitan courts were redefining the rights and rituals of law. Her talk will explore some of the factors that changed how photographs were used as courtroom evidence during the second half of the nineteenth century, years that spanned the rapid global expansion of photography and the origins of new forms of metropolitan and colonial information-sharing. Considering two areas of the law, in particular, that were vigorously discussed -- identity impersonation and pollution laws - this paper presents new findings about how photographs were used as nineteenth-century legal evidence. She will present findings that suggest that changes in popular perceptions of photography affected material and social practices of photography both in and outside of nineteenth-century civil and criminal courtrooms.
https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3VvLE - 26 October. Physicist Gabriel Lippmann's (1845–1921) photographic process is one of the oldest methods for producing colour photographs. So why do the achievements of this 1908 Nobel laureate remain mostly unknown outside niche circles? In this special presentation to mark the publication of her new book on Lippmann's colour photography Dr Hanin Hannouch reflects upon his scientific, photographic, and cultural legacy.
https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3Vwhq - 9 November. Continuing the RPS Historical Group's series of talks looking at collections of photography: Gilly Read FRPS, chair of the Historical Group will introduce Nan Levy, the daughter of Shirley Baker, who will talk about her mother's documentary photography.
https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3VutM
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