On 12 March De Montfort University's Photographic History Research Centre will present two seminars which are open to the public:
- Women Photographers, Institutional Practices and the South Kensington Museum from Erika Lederman. This paper will locate the career of 19th century institutional photographer Isabel Agnes Cowper within the history of the photography and the institutional history of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). It will present the biographical details I have uncovered to date, and will identify other 19th century female professional photographers from whom the SKM acquired photographs. It will examine the challenges involved in identifying and researching material culture produced by women and will suggest a multidisciplinary research approach that acknowledges the multiple strands of photography’s history.
- Future of the Past: Commemorating 150 years of photography in Hungary, 1989 from Catherine Troiano. In 1989, exhibitions of photography were staged around the world to mark 150 years since the announcement of the medium. In Hungary, the commemorations comprised twelve exhibitions staged in Budapest and collectively titled ‘the month of photography’. These events came at a poignant moment culturally, socially and politically. This paper aims to use the anniversary celebrations as a case study through which to understand photography’s place and purpose in Hungary’s broader socio-cultural landscape. It interprets the 1989 events as a lens into the Communist past and a forebear of the Democratic future, exploring how photography was posited within the framework of this political change.
Seminars take place from 1700-1830 in room 2.30 of the Clephan Building. They are free and open to all. See more here: https://photographichistory.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/march-12-2018-research-seminar-in-cultures-of-photography/
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