In this special recording, Steven Berkoff offers a fascinating insight into his photographic series ‘Gorbals 1966' which debuted at Street Level Photoworks in 2018.
This is the seventh 'Photography on Screen' work by Street Level Photoworks for Regional Screen Scotland. For more videos visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUc0_UGvimv9wiY4tJnBSg
Women and work. Photographs from the Archives of Mary Stormont and Susan Benn is an exhibition at the Rye Art Gallery and remains on view until 12 May. Curator Susan Benn said: “Observing women at work in a narrative context is a returning theme throughout her photographic work to date.” She wants to tell visual stories in long form photo journalistic essays, sometimes shot over a period of years by returning to the same place or through exploring unexpected common links between people from different places.'
When Susan Benn moved to Rye recently and became a Trustee of the Gallery she discovered a box of the artist Mary Stormont’s photographs in the permanent collection. Mary photographed women on the land and beaches around Rye. This discovery prompted Susan to unpack her own unpublished archive of photographs and both collections inspired her to put on this exhibition.
See more here: http://www.ryeartgallery.co.uk/
Image credits: Lower: Susan Benn at the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger reserve, South India, 1990.
Sotheby's upcoming auction of travel and natural history on 14 May includes several items of photographic interest.
and Beato photos of China (including photos of Crealock’s drawings) and India
The link here will take you to the photography lots.
Birkbeck's History and Theory of Photography Research Centre has announced its summer programme which starts with Mirjam Brusius discussing William Henry Fox Talbot. The seminars are all free and open to anyone.
Wednesday 8 May 2019, 6-7:30pm
Room 114 (Keynes Library), 46 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD
Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute, London)
The Spaces of Photography. Five New Arguments on William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot had to be excavated. In October 1966 digs began on the grounds of Lacock Abbey in the hope of uncovering relics of the Victorian gentleman of science, antiquarian, and inventor of the calotype. In the following decades Talbot became well known as a major protagonist in early Fine Art photography, yet his papers suggest that he was more concerned with the sciences than ‘high art’ in the strictest sense. This is echoed in the large bulk of photo archives that derive from the medium’s industrial and scientific applications or vernacular genres, in which aesthetics only appears as a single piece in a puzzle. So, who or what ‘turned’ Talbot into an artist? Taking material and archival practices as a starting point, Mirjam Brusius will give insight into the book project she is about to complete. The paper argues that not only the actual photographs and the complex practices surrounding them but also their detachments from their original archival context, and their dispersal between different institutions, museums and the art market determine the framework for the study of Talbot, and that of the history of photography itself.
Friday 14 June 2019, 6-7:30pm
Room 106, 46 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD
Maki Fukuoka (School of Fine Art, Art History & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
Finding the Task of Representation in the Works of Yokoyama Matsusaburo
Yokoyama Matsusaburo (1838-1884) is noted as one of the pioneers of photography in Japan. His commercial, technical, and educational investment in photography paved ways for the second generation of photographers in the capital of Tokyo. This talk situates his pursuit of shashin aburae (a combination of photography/oil painting) and photolithography in the context of dynamic and shifting landscape of reproductive technologies in nineteenth-century Japan. Specifically, it wants to ask, how and to what extent Yokoyama's ideas for reproduction are couched in his concern for individuality.
See more: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/history-and-theory-of-photography/
The Scottish Society for the History of Photography and Roddy Simpson will present a talk, and walking tour of Edinburgh Old Town on Sunday, 12 May 2019. Roddy will explore the area in the context of the photographs of notable Edinburgh based photographer, Archibald Burns (1831-80), concentrating on those published in Picturesque ‘Bits’ from Old Edinburgh and his extraordinary survey images following the Improvement Act of 1867.
The study day will be begin with a talk and slide show within Riddle’s Court, breaking for lunch (provided), and a walking tour of related Burns sites in the afternoon. The day will start and end at Riddle’s Court, and there will be an opportunity for a free tour of our 16th century building following the study day for those who wish to see it.
Roddy Simpson is a photographer and photo historian and his photographs have appeared in numerous publications and his fine monochrome prints have been widely exhibited and are in private and public collections including the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow and a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. His book, The Photography of Victorian Scotland, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2012 and has been described as ‘the seminal book on the history of Scottish photography’. Thresholds, a book of his fine monochrome prints was published in 2018.
See more here
Image: Archibald Burns, Cardinal Beatons’s House, Cowgate, 1868.
The Photographic Collections Network has announced the appointment of a new manager. Debbie Adele Cooper who took up the role in April 2019.
Debbie's work as a producer, project manager, curator, trainer and artist is widely known and respected in the photographic sector. She comes from Museums Sheffield, where she was fundraising manager, and previously was project manager and artist in residence at W W Winter Studio. She will continue her part-time work as a producer for FORMAT Festival, Derby.
The appointment comes as the PCN enters a new phase of activity supported by Arts Council England (ACE). This second ACE grant will allow it to deliver a significantly enhanced programme during 2019-20, focusing on strengthening the network, continuing a programme of events and knowledge sharing for anyone working with photo archives and collections, and building its advocacy and research work.
The appointment also marks the departure of Maura McKee who has co-ordinated PCN activities for the past 18 months, and Iona Griliopoulos, who has been responsible for PCN’s online content since mid-2018. Maura will continue her highly regarded collections-based learning and participation work at Interference Art. Iona continues as an online project manager and artist’s assistant.
Director of the PCN, Paul Herrmann, said: “This is a really exciting moment for the PCN - we have plans to build the organisation significantly over the next year to do what we can to tackle the urgent issues facing photo archives, and to celebrate the rich visual history reflected in myriad photographic collections across the UK. I’m looking forward to starting work with Debbie, and also want to give my huge thanks to Maura and Iona who have kept things rolling in recent months.”
See more about the PCN here: https://www.photocollections.org.uk/
