Photograph albums of Victorian Britain have often been interpreted in terms of the social and familial networks of their compilers, but they also imply certain geographies – local and transnational, imagined and travelled – that are not always brought to the same level of critical attention. This keynote lecture delivered by Luke Gartlan examines an impressive album compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn, née Elliot, which is currently on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Luke Gartlan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography (2016); and has co-edited two volumes: with Ali Behdad, Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (2013); and with Roberta Wue, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan (2017).
A second keynote At the Center of the Periphery: East Berlin and the Face Value of Photo Books from Steffen Siegel is also being delivered as part of the same event.
Navigating the Victorian Photograph Album: Itineraries, Histories, Erasures
Keynote Lecture as part of the photo-historical seminar “Centers and Peripheries: Photography’s Geography Lessons"
Dr Luke Gartlan
18 March 2025 at 1830 (CET) | 1730 (UTC/GMT)
Rome and streamed online, free
See: https://www.biblhertz.it/events/41034/2206
At the Center of the Periphery: East Berlin and the Face Value of Photo Books
Keynote Lecture as part of the photo-historical seminar “Centers and Peripheries: Photography’s Geography Lessons"
Professor Steffen Siegel
20 March 2025 at 1830 (CET) | 1730 (UTC/GMT)
Rome and streamed online, free
See: https://www.biblhertz.it/events/41035/2206
Comments
Ohh! Oh! ~ now That lecture has certainly caught one’s interest. We see so many old family albums up at auction or for sale on online sales pitches such as Ebay ~ where, profitability for the bidder and buyer means tearing the albums apart for the individual carte de visite, sepia postcard or quaint b/w photo is able to be sold for more than the album was got ~ criminal ~ of the dealer bereft of any sense of holistic history or sensitivity toward memorialised family and individual's memories carefully and dutifully arrayed within the foxed pages of old photo albums. If I were dictator I'd outlaw the ripping asunder of old albums and arraign the perpetrator against and for 'wanton destruction and denial of social-history'.🥸