Lecture: Photography and Cinema, from A to Z / London, 16 April 2024

[Michael Pritchard]

Titled Photography and Cinema, from A to Z, the lecture will take the form of twenty-six short reflections on still and moving images. It will consider the relations between Photography and Cinema:stillness and movement, cinema’s changing attitude to the depiction of photographers on screen, the freeze frame and the art of the film publicity still.

The lecture series, newly established by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, will provide a platform for perspectives on photogra­phy, the moving image and the relationship between the two. Presented in partnership with the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre, Birkbeck.

David Campany is an internationally renowned writer and curator. His books include On Photographs (2022), So Present, So Invisible – conversations on photography (2018), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Wom­en (2010), Art and Photography (2003) and Photography and Cinema, which received the 2009 Kraszna-Krausz Award. He has written over two hundred essays for, among others, Tate, MoMA New York, Cen­tre Pompidou, The Photographers’ Gallery London, and the Stedelijk Museum. Many of his touring exhibitions have combined still and moving images, including William Klein -YES: Photographs, Paint­ings, Films 1948-2013 (2022), A Trillion Sunsets: a Century of Image Overload (2021), A Handful of Dust (2015-2020), The Open Road: pho­tography and the American road trip (2016- 2019); The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography (2017); Victor Burgin: A Sense of Place (2013); Anonymes: Unnamed America in Photogra­phy and Film (2010); and Hannah Collins: Current History (2010). He was the curator of the six-museum Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, (Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg, Germany) which opened in February 2020.

The KRASZNA-KRAUSZ LECTURE 2024
Photography and Cinema, from A to Z, by David Campany
6.30pm, Tuesday 16 April 2024
Clore Lecture Theatre (CLO B01), Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, WC1E 7JL
Free, booking essential - Book your ticket here
Doors open 6pm. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception

Image: © Chris Marker, frame from La Jetée, 1962 courtesy Argos Films

 

[Derek Trillo MA PhD FRPS]

Anyone know if this series can be viewed online? The link on Birkbeck's site doesn't say one way or the other