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March at the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre:

Seminar:

Louise Purbrick, 'Traces of Nitrate: Archives and Landscapes between Britain and Chile'

Monday, 11 March, 6-7.30pm, Keynes Library (Room 114), 

School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

This seminar is related to the exhibition Traces of Nitrate: Some Documents

11-15 March 2013, Pelz Room, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

An exhibition of the photographic work in progress of the AHRC funded Traces of Nitrate project developed at the University of Brighton by Ignacio Acosta, Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas 

(http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/traces-of-nitrate)

Gallery Talk

Traces of Nitrate: Mining history and photography between Britain and Chile

Friday, 15 March, 1-2 pm, Pelz Room, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

History and Theory of Photography Reading Group.

On 18 March 2013, 6-7:30 pm, we'll discuss the first chapter 'Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope' and the last 'Afterlives and Legacies' from Elizabeth Edwards, The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (Duke University Press, 2012). Room 112, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

Forthcoming events in May (all in the School of Art, 43 Gordon Square)

01/05/13 - Next reading group, the text will be decided in March, let us know if you have any requests, room 112. 

08/05/13 - Seminar: Graham Smith, 'Rauschenberg's use of photographs in his Combines of the 1950s', Keynes Library.

09/05/13 - Seminar: Magnus Bremmer, 'The Making of a Cloud Observer: On the 19th Century Photographic Cloud-Atlas', Keynes Library.

All our events are free and open to all. Details on 

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/photography

Further information and images on our blog:

http://photographyresearchcentre.blogspot.co.uk/

Patrizia Di Bello (Dr),

Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Photography

Birkbeck, University of London,

www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history

The advancement of photo-historical research by prospective curators from the Netherlands or abroad using the original photographs in the National Photo Collection in the Rijksmuseum.

The Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund enables the Rijksmuseum to award two scholarships every year. The aim of this postgraduate scholarship is to stimulate photo-historical research of the highest quality. The research must result in an article in the field of classical photography. It should be related to the original objects in the extensive and important collection of the Rijksmuseum, and where possible to objects in other collections. This could be an in-depth study of one photograph or photo book and/or its distribution; on a series of photographs or part of an oeuvre; on the aesthetic or technical aspects of photography; on the wider context of a photo book or album; or on combinations of art-historical research and research on materials and techniques . The international research bursary is for a period of 6 months. The researcher will work independently and will be allocated a place in the reading room of the Rijksprentenkabinet (Print Room) and have access to all the museum’s collections and library.

Subject: Call for applicants, Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund: Photo-historical Research Programme, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam announces the research programme for photo-historical Research in the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Funding for this project has been provided by the Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund: two grants per annum, for the duration 6 months per grant, over a new period of 5 years.

Aim: to research subject(s) – photographs (19th, as well as 20th century photography), series, photo books, albums- in the National Photo-collection at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Requirements for applicants: Talented post-graduates in Art History or the History of Photography.

Required result: a paper or an article, to be submitted, resulting in a publication in the series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography.

Starting : We want to start summer 2013  in the premises of the Print Room/Library/ of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Applicants can work in the Study Room of the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum.

Advertisement: The advertisement is attached to this mail. Proposals to be written in English!

Closing date for proposals : 15^th of May  https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/organisation/vacancies/manfred-and-hanna-heiting-scholarship

New Catalogue of Early Travel and Exploration. Photographs, Albums and Photobooks. For the electronic version: http://data.axmag.com/data/201302/U13625_F193654/index.html

One of the more unlikely sites for a photographic history museum might be

Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1890 Paul Nadar, son of Felix Nadar, traveled to

Tashkent, documenting the “ Silk Road.” He used the new favorite of travel

Photographers, the Kodak Camera. In 2010 an exhibition of Nadar’s photographs

was held at the House of Photography in Tashkent. The exhibition was featured

on the British Photographic History site. In the description of the exhibition, the

statement was made that in 1893 Nadar became George Eastman’s agent in

France. This is incorrect. Nadar had been Eastman’s agent since 1886.

 Around 1893 he won a lawsuit against Eastman for contract problems.

 The relationship between them was terminated some time before that. Where

did this error come from?

            Perhaps from the Getty Museum. Google Paul Nadar and the first entry is

the  biography from  the Getty website. The same statement is made there, that

Nadar became Eastman’s agent in 1893. So, Getty to British Photographic History

blog to Tashkent ? The details of the true story are easily found in Elizabeth

Brayer’s Biography of Eastman.

George Layne - Philadelphia

The National Media Museum has launched a series of 90 second video bites. In the first of the series Colin Harding talks about Francis Bedford.

See: http://nationalmediamuseum.tumblr.com/post/44300693721/francis-bedford-in-90-seconds