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Formally established in 2012, the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre is based in Birkbeck’s School of Arts, and is led by Professor Lynda Nead and Dr Patrizia Di Bello, supported by a steering committee. The Centre has links with museums in London, and supports teaching and research on photography in the School through the MA in History of Art with Photographyand MPhil-PhD supervision. The Centre aims to facilitate, exchange and showcase existing and new interdisciplinary research on the History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck and in the wider photographic and academic community.

The following seminars are happening: 

 'Found Photographs'

A Work-In-Progress Seminar by Dr Stephen Clucas, 

4th of February, 6:00-7:30pm in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

Our Reading Group is discussing Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (London: Reaktion Books, 2000) 

on the 18th of February, 6.00-7:30pm in Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

(NB This short book can also be sampled on google-books)

Further dates for your diary:

11th March 2013, 6:00-7:30pm, Keynes Library, Lecture - Louise Purbrick, 'Traces of Nitrate' TBC

18th March 2013, 6:00-7:30pm, Room 112, Reading Group - text to be decided at the February Reading Group

Details of events on: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/photography

Join our mailing list at photoresearch@bbk.ac.uk

A very interesting instrument, called a photographic gun, has been invented by a Frenchman M. Marrez. It is nothing more nor less than a very large revolver, with a stock to put to the shoulder. The barrel is a telescope that is to say it contains the lenses of a camera. There are twelve apertures, which take the place of chambers. The photographer puts a sensitised plate behind these apertures, and, performing an operation analagous to cocking a gun, the weapon is ready for the field. On seeing a flying bird, he takes aim, and pulls the trigger. The chamber revolves once, and in one second he obtains twelve little pictures of the bird in various positions.
Nelson Evening Mail (New Zealand), Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 September 1882, Page 2.
Papers Past - National Library of New Zealand