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The Photographic Collections Network has 12201205273?profile=originalannounced a series of events which includes a seminar on Diversity and Representation in collections. The first workshop in a series on the Care of Photographs led by the National Trust, and we have a talk from a PhD researcher on working with Family Albums. In January we will be having an event from Creative Commons looking at Intellectual Property with a Creative Common License, and a session from National Lottery Heritage Fund on their Dynamic Collections Fund.

As usual, all our events are free to book with the option of making a donation. 

Details: https://www.photocollections.org.uk/

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12201203481?profile=originalRose Teanby has written a blog for the V&A Museum on Anna Atkins cyanotypes in the V&A photography collection. She writes...'I recently returned to visit the V&A Archive viewing materials relating to Atkins’s contribution to the 1984 touring exhibition The Golden Age of British Photography where once again her images added a splash of early monochromatic colour to an exhibition charting the history of British photography. The archival documents revealed the behind-the-scenes hard work of assembling, documenting, insuring, transporting and finally exhibiting images at five USA venues in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art....'

Read the full blog here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-for-our-collections/a-blueprint-for-the-future-cyanotypes-by-anna-atkins

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12201199883?profile=originalJames Hamilton has announced the rediscovery of an eighth, previously unrecorded copy of Hill and Adamson's publication A Series of Calotype Views of St Andrews. The publication was found in the Signet Library having been miscategorised in a post-1882 catalogue. 

Details: https://twitter.com/lixmount/status/1589604007013920769

For the WS Signet Library see:  https://www.wssociety.co.uk/

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12201203099?profile=originalThe Kraszna-Krausz Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with the new Parasol Foundation Women in Photography project at the V&A to present a special event celebrating this year’s winning title, What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 (10×10 Photobooks).

A symposium of editor, curator and artist presentations will take place on Wednesday 14 December at the V&A in South Kensington. Hosted by Fiona Rogers (inaugural Curator of the Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project), an international group of participants will discuss their books, the challenges and joys of developing a project for publication and their practice more broadly.

Whilst this event and content is curated for adults, we welcome parents with young children. We will also be live streaming, if you are unable to attend or access the Museum

This is a free event but booking is essential. Reserve your place here.

Programme Schedule:

4pm: Welcome and introductions
4.10pm – 5.10pm: Presentations by Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich and Mariama Attah
5.10pm – 5.30pm: Break
5.30pm – 7pm: Presentations by Dr Marta Weiss, Erika Lederman and Rhiannon Adam
7.00pm – 8pm: Drinks reception

Speakers:

Editors Russet Lederman & Olga Yatskevich of 10×10 Photobooks will join us to discuss the development of their seminal new anthology. ‘What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999‘ which sheds light on photobooks created by women from diverse backgrounds and addresses the glaring gaps and omissions in current photobook history—in particular, the lack of access, support and funding for non-Western women and women of colour. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks, ranging from well-known publications to the more obscure.

Rhiannon Adam was longlisted for this year’s Kraszna-Krausz Photography Award for her book ‘Big Fence / Pitcairn Island’ (Blow Up Press). The Pitcairn Islands are Britain’s last Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. Pitcairn Island itself (25°4′0″S, 130°6′0″W) is the only inhabited island in the group, and though it is diminutive in both size (measuring just two miles by one mile), and population (now fewer than 50), it has garnered widespread interest for the last two centuries. In 2015, Adam, inspired by a childhood gift of The Mutiny on The Bounty and a desire to capture the island’s fragility on expiring analogue film, made the long journey to Pitcairn Island. Due to the quarterly shipping schedule, she remained trapped on the island for 96 nights.

Adam will speak about the long development of this project and its eventual manifestation in book form. Designed to be as impenetrable and complex as the island itself, the book is comprised of two parts: Adam’s own experience of the island as related through her captions and personal stories, and a volume of photographs and related archive.

Mariama Attah (Curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool) will speak about the essay she contributed to ‘What They Saw’, and will discuss what has been included in the book, what has been left out, and more broadly why this book is such a valuable and necessary addition to the canon of writing on photobooks.

Erika Lederman will focus on Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826-1911), the first official photographer for the V&A Museum, and, in particular, Cowper’s role in relation to South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) publications and contribution to photobook history.   

Dr Marta Weiss will speak about the pre-eminent nineteenth century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) with special reference to her use of the book form. In 1874, Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, invited Julia Margaret Cameron to make photographic illustrations to his Idylls of the King. This was a series of narrative poems based on the legends of King Arthur. After her large photographs were published as small, wood-cut copies, Cameron decided to produce an edition illustrated by original photographic prints. She accompanied these with extracts from the poems written in her own hand and printed in facsimile. She claimed to have made as many as 245 exposures to arrive at the 25 she finally published in two volumes.

Photography Book Award Symposium in partnership with the V&A
Wednesday 14th December, 4pm – 8pm
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A South Kensington

Details: https://kraszna-krausz.org.uk/kraszna-krausz-photography-book-award-symposium-in-partnership-with-the-va/

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12201213882?profile=originalIn the mid-1920s, a transatlantic team of physicians, surgeons, psychologists, and physicists gathered in the Boston séance room of the medium Mina ’Margery’ Crandon to study the extraordinary phenomena she produced in a trance state, especially the visceral, quasi-biological ‘ectoplasm’ that seemed to ooze from her body. Anxious to defend the scientific status of their research into this strange phenomena situated somewhere between the medical and mental, tangible and intangible, the all-male team of investigators produced a vast set of materials documenting and validating their research (many housed today in the Harry Price Archives at Senate House Library).

This talk centres on the stereoscopic photographs of Crandon taken by the researchers to index the ‘spiritualist’ phenomena witnessed and to supplement the poor observational conditions of the pitch-black séance room. It also considers the researchers’ use of their other senses — touch, hearing, smell — and the photographs’ material qualities to explore the complex relationships embedded in these photographs and practices between apparent polarities like trust and deception, vision and blindness, truth and illusion, proof and faith, and science and supernatural belief. The gendered dynamics of this investigation, related to issues of ‘control’ (scientific and otherwise), are also explored. What role did the photographs, and other forms of observation and control, play in the scientists’ efforts to validate, document, and (dis)prove the seemingly supernormal, yet peculiarly bodily, phenomena they witnessed? What of trust and deception? And what can the application of art-historical methods to such cases offer to the study of the relationship between science and extraordinary belief?

Dr Emma Merkling is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art as Principal Investigator on the grant project ‘Biomedicine and Belief:  Spiritualism, Observation, and Margery Crandon’s Extraordinary Body c. 1920–35′, funded by the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society. Her research focuses on the relationships between art history, history of science, and history of heterodox belief in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Courtauld’s Centre for American Art, the Science Museum, and the University of Stirling.

Science in the Séance Room: Stereographs, Medical Men, and the Testing of ‘Margery’ Crandon’s Extraordinary Body, c. 1925
Dr Emma Merkling
Monday, 14th November 2022
5:00pm - 6.00pm
London: Courtauld, Vernon Square campus, Lecture Theatre 2 and online via Zoom
Booking: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/?dm_i=AHZ,838NK,ML3WGR,X469A,1

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12201203699?profile=originalAfter Exposure. Histories of Photographic Development and the New Theory of Photography is a new website dedicated to the links and gaps between photographic exposure and development at the science-industry nexus, inspired by a multi-stage account of photography. It will also be the subject of a workshop exploring these themes with papers from Dawn Wilson (Hull)Kelley Wilder (Leicester)Martin Jähnert (Berlin)Stephan Graf (Zürich), and Omar Nasim (Regensburg)
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12201171292?profile=originalThe V&A has announced today further details on the second and final phase of the V&A’s Photography Centre, which opens in spring 2023. The Photography Centre will become the largest space in the UK for a permanent photography collection, and the seven galleries – four of which will be new additions – will showcase the museum’s world-leading holdings and enable visitors to experience photography and its diverse histories in new ways.

The V&A has collected and exhibited photography since the founding of the museum in the 1850s, and today its collection is one of the largest and most varied in the world. Phase One of the museum’s Photography Centre opened in 2018, with three galleries designed by David Kohn. 2023 sees the completion of the second and final phase of the Photography Centre with an additional four galleries, with base-build designed by Purcell, and fit-out designed by Gibson Thornley Architects.

Two of the new rooms will showcase global contemporary photography and cutting-edge commissions in rotating displays. The other new spaces - a room dedicated to photography and the book, and an interactive gallery about the history and use of the camera – will shine a light on the processes involved in photography, as well as the study and presentation of the medium. These new rooms join the three existing galleries, with two galleries for changing displays from the collection and a space dedicated to digital media, which will also present new content.

Marta Weiss, V&A Senior Curator of Photography and Lead Curator of Phase Two of the Photography Centre, said: “Photography lies at the heart of the V&A. The museum has collected photography since 1852 and continues to acquire the best of contemporary practice. As photography plays an ever-increasing role in all our lives, the expanded Photography Centre will be more relevant than ever. We look forward to welcoming visitors to explore the medium’s diverse histories and enjoy our world-leading collection.

Highlights of the opening displays will include recent acquisitions exhibited at the museum for the first time, including works by Liz Johnson Artur, Sammy Baloji, Vera Lutter, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tarrah Krajnak and Vasantha Yogananthan, as well as a monumental photographic sculpture by Noémie Goudal. Two major new commissions supported by the Manitou Fund will also be unveiled, with a photographic series by leading Indian artist Gauri Gill, and a digital commission by British media artist Jake Elwes. The Manitou Fund has committed to funding six commissions for the Photography Centre, which will see a new print and digital commission in 2023, 2025 and 2027. On completion, the Photography Centre will also feature new, themed displays, presenting works from the 1840s to the present day, beginning with Energy: Sparks from the Collection, exploring how all photographs need some form of energy to exist, and a smaller display, How Not to Photograph a Bulldog, featuring dog photography manuals from the Royal Photographic Society Library.

About the Photography Centre:

Phase 2 - Room 95 - Inside the Camera
Room 95 will be an interactive gallery exploring how cameras work and how they are used, from the Victorian view camera to the first iPhone. The highlight will be a walk-in camera obscura, demonstrating the optical phenomenon that is the basis of how all cameras work. A timeline of cameras will show their evolution, with accompanying animations explaining the inner workings of these iconic devices.

Phase 2 - Room 96, Room 97, The Parasol Foundation Gallery Photography Now
Two new galleries will be dedicated to showcasing recent acquisitions of global contemporary photography, including special commissions. Highlights in the inaugural display will include works by Liz Johnson Artur, Sammy Baloji, Vera Lutter, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Vasantha Yogananthan, all acquired with the support of the V&A Photographs Acquisition Group. A series of self-portraits by Tarrah Krajnak, acquired with the support of the Parasol Foundation Trust, will also feature. A spectacular anamorphic sculpture by Noémie Goudal will bring photography off the wall to explore both geological time and the nature of perception.

A new commission, supported by the Manitou Fund, from leading Indian photographer Gauri Gill will also be unveiled. This new body of work depicts temporary architecture on the outskirts of Delhi, ingenuously constructed by farmers from repurposed materials. The makeshift dwellings housed farmers bringing their concerns from the village to the capital, in response to new laws that threatened their economic security.

Room 98, The Kusuma Gallery - Photography and the Book
A flexible space dedicated to Photography and the Book will reflect how books have been a fundamental way of presenting photography since the 1840s. The Kusuma Gallery, which has been funded by The Kusuma Trust, will visibly house the extensive Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Library, following the transfer of the RPS Collection to the V&A in 2017. The RPS Library contains journals, books, pamphlets and manuals from all over the world, spanning topics from aerial photography to X-rays. More than 20,000 books, published over nearly 200 years, will be available to visitors by request, with a selection of browsing books on open shelves.

The Kusuma Gallery will also feature changing displays of photographic books, periodicals and archival material. The first display will be How Not to Photograph a Bulldog, a light-hearted foray into one of the many topics covered by the photographic manuals in the RPS Library.

Films about the RPS Library and photographic processes will be shown on digital terminals for visitors to enjoy. This flexible space will also be used for teaching and other programming.

Phase 1 - Room 99, The Modern Media Gallery Digital Gallery

The Modern Media Gallery continues to be dedicated to digital media, challenging definitions of what photography is and generating questions around the use of photography today. The gallery will showcase a new digital commission by Jake Elwes, supported by the Manitou Fund.

Phase 1 - Room 100, The Bern and Ronny Schwartz Gallery Room 101, The Sir Elton John and David Furnish Gallery - Photography 1840s-Now

Developed during Phase One of the Photography Centre, these galleries will be entirely rehung for the 2023 opening. A new display, Energy: Sparks from the Collection, will shine a light on the diverse kinds of energy in photography – both the hidden processes intrinsic to creating a picture, and the subjects in front of a camera. Featuring works from the 1840s through to the present day, it will explore how, from the advent of photography, power in all its diverse forms has sparked the imaginations of photographers.

Situated in the V&A’s Northeast Quarter, the Photography Centre reclaims the beauty of seven original 19th-century picture galleries, restoring them to their original glory and purpose. Planned in two phases, the Centre is part of the V&A’s FuturePlan development programme to revitalise the museum’s public spaces through contemporary design and the restoration of original features.

Beyond the physical gallery spaces, a key focus for photography at the V&A is research and the development of new sector-leading initiatives. A major strand is The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, established in 2021 to support women in photography. Led by the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography, Fiona Rogers, and funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and The Parasol Foundation Trust, the Project encompasses a curatorial post alongside acquisitions, research, education and public displays. The Project’s first acquisition by Tarrah Krajnak will be included in the opening display, and an exhibition presenting the work of Laia Abril will open at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, 10-27 November 2022, in collaboration with the V&A and Photoworks.

The V&A is also delighted to announce additional support from The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation. Alongside significant funding of Phase Two of the Photography Centre, the Foundation has generously extended their commitment to a series of two-year Fellowships in photography for early-career curators until 2028. The V&A is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Phan as the second Curatorial Fellow in Photography, supported by The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, who will be in post until 2024.

The Photography Centre is being made possible by Sir Elton John and David Furnish, The Kusuma Trust, The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, The Parasol Foundation Trust, Modern Media, Shao Zhong Art Foundation and many other generous supporters.

The V&A will be releasing visuals of the new spaces closer to the opening.  

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12201201684?profile=originalInternational photographic societies and camera clubs burgeoned in the late nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The mutual support and collaboration amongst individual members along with the practical and educational undertakings of these self-reliant photographies is a fitting focus for the recognition of photographers who could assert themselves and see themselves as a community of practice of their own making.

The educational projects of photographic societies and camera clubs were shaped by an infrastructure that enabled collaborative forms of communication; products of socio-technical networks that fostered new relationships of learning between the individual and the collective. From the late 1870s, the number of clubs and societies began to soar: the fourteen groups recorded in the British Journal of Photography Almanac in 1877 had grown to 365 by 1910. Almost weekly the pages of the photographic press reported the foundation of new clubs and societies. At a time when the number of amateur photographers themselves was expanding, and club life was seen as a respectable social occupation, the cooperative ethos on which these ‘local schools’ were built was considered by contemporary commentators as a ‘culture of rational exchange’ and fostering an ‘ideal of sociability identified with liberal education, eloquence and good fellowship’ (Sawyer, Photographic News, 1883: 286). These organisations ranged from amateur groups that emulated learned societies to less socially exclusive and formal, and to camera clubs based in hospitals, workplaces or mechanics institutes. There were national societies, such as the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, the National Photographic Association of the United States, the Société Française de Photographie, the Japan Photographic Society, and a plethora of album clubs and postal camera clubs exchanging prints or lantern slides for aesthetic critique.

12201202295?profile=originalHistorical accounts of clubs and societies are sparce, because many of these groups, considered to be minor, were not listed in the photographic annals and the greater numbers of their collections have been broken up, dispersed, and even lost. Yet, club life from an understanding of how people learnt (or should learn) photography, allowed its membership to receive by various ways a collaborative and efficient training and, through group participation, to escape some of the technical pitfalls which beset many photographers who proceeded to work alone.

This one-day workshop opens a critical conversation about the under-researched emergence and decline of these clubs and societies, outlines new ways to research, theorise, and interpret their educational projects, and asks what this reveals about the values and meanings that members attached to these practices and of how photography consolidated and strengthened the bonds amongst those groups.

To this end, we invite papers for 15 minute presentations from students, academics, practitioners, and museums and archives professionals at all career stages working in research areas such as photographic history, visual and popular culture, media and communication studies, medical humanities, social and cultural history, history of art, material and design cultures, archives and records management, and any other related fields of research.

What roles have the learning communities of photographic societies and camera clubs played in the histories of photography and visual culture? How did club life, at times recognised as popular and progressive, fraternal, instructive and sociable, cement cooperative strategies for growing bodies of amateur and professional photographers to learn from one another? Were these clubs and societies mostly ‘fraternal’ male groups? How did this space intersect with narratives of gender and subtexts of brotherhood in its educational and entertainment uses for female groups? Did any standout for their female or children’s membership?

Proposals may explore, but are not limited to:

  • Global histories of the camera club and photographic society (from any historical period)
  • Photographic societies and camera clubs as supplementary schooling
  • Amateur groups emulating learned societies
  • Launch of the Amateur Photographer in 1884 and the rise in popularity of Amateur Societies
  • International, national and regional differences in the organisation of both photographic societies and camera clubs
  • The role of periodicals in drawing together societies and clubs and consolidating communities of practice
  • Education, sociability and instruction within the practices of clubland culture
  • Society networks and intersecting communities of learning
  • The RPS and female ‘Colour Group’ members
  • The relationship between gender and clubland
  • Camera clubs specifically for women or children
  • Collaborative education to enhance members’ active participation
  • Scientific, medical, colonial photographic committees, societies or clubs
  • The material culture of clubrooms, exhibitions, soireés, meetings, lantern evenings
  • The social and cultural roles of exhibitions of societies and clubs
  • The relationship between the RPS and affiliated provincial camera clubs
  • Power relations in the clubroom
  • The legalities of club life and presidents, secretaries and officials, especially in small self-regulated clubs  
  • The relationship between postal, microscopical, album or lantern slide clubs and modern communication technologies in urban and non-urban contexts
  • Amateur photographers and the survey and record movement
  • Links with other types of bodies that sponsored photographic societies such as field, naturalistic and archaeological societies, companies
  • Photographic federations, unions, associations, and inter-society arrangements
  • The rise and decline of clubs and societies   
  • Researching societies and clubs in archives and special collections

Paper proposals should be submitted as one Word or PDF document to Dr Jason Bate j.bate@bbk.ac.uk by Monday 6th February 2023. The document should include:

  • Your full name
  • Email address
  • Institutional affiliation (when applicable)
  • Paper title
  • Proposal of no longer than 250 words for presentations of 15 minutes
  • Short biographical note (100-150 words)

Event format: The event will take place in the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre at Birkbeck in London (UK) in person, and we will be able to accommodate fifteen presentations, and offer £50 towards travel expenses for up to four PhD students. 

Keynote speaker: Dr Michael Pritchard, photohistorian and Director of Programmes at the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

CfP: Photographic Societies and Camera Clubs
Thursday 25th May 2023

Birkbeck College, University of London, in person
Deadline for paper proposals: by Monday, 6 February 2023
Dr Jason Bate e: j.bate@bbk.ac.uk

Images: top: Group photograph of the Central Association of Photographic Societies at Kewes, 3 June 1939; lower: 1902 selectors of the RPS 1902 annual exhibition. 

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12201213458?profile=originalA new home for British photography will open in London in late January 2023. The Centre for British Photography will build on the world-renowned Hyman Collection of British photography and the work of the Hyman Foundation. Three floors of exhibitions will present the diverse landscape of British photography today, as well as an historical overview. The 8000 sq. ft. Centre will be free to visit year-round and will offer exhibitions, events and talks, a shop and an archive and library. 

The Centre will feature photographs from 1900 to the present, work by photographers living and working in the UK today, and images taken by those who emigrated to the UK. It will present self-generated exhibitions and those led by independent curators and organisations, as well as monographic displays. The Centre plans to stage numerous exhibitions throughout the year and also bring together the photographic community – professional and amateur - through its talks and events programme.

The Hyman Collection includes over 3,000 significant works by more than 100 artists including Bill Brandt, Bert Hardy, Daniel Meadows, Jo Spence, Karen Knorr, Anna Fox and Heather Agyepong. It is currently available as a global online resource, and it also has a history of lending to exhibitions outside London. Now, with this new home, regional museums, galleries and photography collectives will also be invited to use the central London space to present exhibitions and collaborate on talks and events. 

James Hyman, Founding Director, said: “The Centre for British Photography is for anyone with an interest in photography. Photography in Britain is some of the best in the world and we want to give it more exposure and support. With this new physical space, alive with exhibitions and events, we hope to create a hub that increases British photography’s national and international status. We hope that through this initial work to make a home for British photography we can, in the long run, develop an independent centre that is self-sustaining with a dedicated National Collection and public programme.”

Tracy Marshall-Grant, the Centre for British Photography’s newly-appointed Deputy Director, said: “The Hyman Collection is the pre-eminent British photography collection and that will be at the heart of our programming. Inclusivity and diversity have always been key to the Foundation and to the development of the Hyman Collection - for example, the collection is balanced in the numbers of works it holds by men and women. We will reflect this in the programming of the exhibition spaces and those we invite to show, talk and take part in events at the Centre. We also want to support British photographers through commissions, grants, exhibitions, acquisitions and sales.”

Opening exhibitions

12201213296?profile=originalThe opening events will include two major, new exhibitions: a self-portrait show co-curated by the campaign group Fast Forward: Women in Photography; and The English at Home - over 150 photographs which provide an overview of British photography focused on the domestic interior drawn from some of the major bodies of work in the Hyman Collection. Taking its title from Bill Brandt’s first book, The English at Home will range from Bill Brandt, Kurt Hutton and Bert Hardy to Martin Parr, Daniel Meadows, Karen Knorr, Anna Fox and Richard Billingham.

There will also be four In Focus displays that will spotlight specific bodies of work. These will include Jo Spence: Cinderella in collaboration with the Jo Spence Memorial Library at Birkbeck, University of London; and the series Fairytale for Sale by Natasha Caruana that was recently acquired by the Hyman Collection.

Also on display will be two bodies of work that were commissioned by the Hyman Collection: Spitting by Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox is a response to the original Spitting Image puppets in the Hyman Collection, and Wish You Were Here, a recent series commissioned from Heather Agyepong.

The gallery shop will also present a selling show Paul Hill. Prenonations. Large format platinum prints

Print sale

A print sale will go live on 17 November with funds raised going towards the Centre and the Hyman Foundation’s support of photographers in Britain, through commissions, grants, acquisitions and sales. Featuring the work of Martin Parr, Anna Fox, Julia Fullerton-Batten and David Hurn among others and priced at £70, the prints will be available to purchase from 17 November – 19 December 2022 on the Centre for British Photography website: www.britishphotography.org.    

The Centre for British Photography
49 Jermyn Street
London
SW1Y 6LX
www.britishphotography.org

Opens late January 2023

Instagram: @centre_for_british_photography

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12201210675?profile=originalAt the Crossroads: Qandahar in Images and Empires features the earliest known photographs of Qandahar, Afghanistan, taken between 1880 and 1881 at the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Today, they offer insights into the region, its local populations, and its rich cultural traditions.

The resource offers a free publication, an online preview of images, and stories which were developed by Getty in partnership with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

See: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/qandahar/index.html

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12201212868?profile=originalPhotographic representations of landscapes have been long used to promote the association between national identity and physical geography. This presentation considers a range of case studies drawn from the artistic practices of Yto Barrada, Bruno Boudjelal, Bouchra Khalili, and Laura Henno that complicate the narratives of national belonging, migration, displacement and homecoming in contemporary France. This presentation is based on material in Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice (Leuven University Press, 2022). 

Olga Smith is a historian of contemporary art, writer and curator. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, she is developing a research project with a focus on ‘landscape’ as a form of picturing nature in the Anthropocene. She writes about photography and new imaging technologies, interchanges between art and intellectual ideas, cultural memory, exhibitions and environmental issues. Her research has been published in French, German and English in journals such as Art History, Moving Image Review, Art Journal, Photographies and Fotogeschichte. She is co-editor of Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Peter Lang, 2009) and sole editor of Photography and Landscape (Photographies, 2019). Her first monograph, Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice (Leuven University Press, 2022), received praise as groundbreaking in “opening new perspectives in global media historiographies” and winning grants from the Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft and Association for Art History. 

OLGA SMITH AT THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH CENTRE 
A Sense of Belonging: Territory, Borders, Identity in Contemporary Photography in France 
21 November 2022, 18:00 — 19:30
Online 
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12201210060?profile=originalLarry Schaaf has emailed to let BPH know of the passing of Elizabeth Schaaf, his partner, aged 81 years. Although not a photohistorian per se Elizabeth will have been well-known to many readers and was supportive of Larry's own research in to Talbot and early British photography. She was for many years at the John Hopkins Peabody Institute in Baltimore where she was archivist 

See: https://localtoday.news/md/elizabeth-mary-schaaf-who-archived-baltimores-music-history-at-the-peabody-institute-dies-capital-gazette-34833.html

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https://youtu.be/0GQOBPrK3UY

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12201206469?profile=originalThis ground-breaking exhibition presents the work of fourteen pioneering women photographers and filmmakers working in Scotland during the early 20th century. The women are Violet Banks (1886-1985), Helen Biggar (1909-1953), Christina Broom (1862-1939), M.E.M. Donaldson (1876-1958), Dr Beatrice Garvie (1872-1959), Jenny Gilbertson (1902-1990), Isobel F Grant (1887–1983), Ruby Grierson (1904-1940), Marion Grierson (1907-1998), Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982), Johanna Kissling (1875-1961), Isabell Burton-MacKenzie (1872-1958), Margaret Fay Shaw (1903-2004) and Margaret Watkins (1884-1969).

12201206857?profile=originalThese women present different accounts of Scotland, covering both rural and city places and communities. The exhibition will show the breadth of their photography and filmmaking, offering a critical analysis of their work and how these informed the work they made, and the different narratives we see emerging from their work in Scotland. It is the first time their work will have been seen together, and it uncovers a previously untold story within the history of Scottish photography. Exhibits will be drawn from a broad selection of private and public collections.

The exhibition is a partnership project with Jenny Brownrigg, Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art.

Glean: Early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland
12 November 2022-12 March 2023

Edinburgh, City Art Centre
Details: https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/glean-early-20th-century-women-filmmakers-and-photographers-scotland

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12201212252?profile=originalIn general photography and the visual arts fared reasonably well with today's announcement from Arts Council England of those organisations it will fund annually from 2023 to 2026.

Autograph ABP fared best with a 30 per cent increase from £712,880 to £1,012,880 and Photofusion and Photoworks saw their funding increase to £145,524 and £273,252 respectively.  Most organisations saw their funding maintained including Impressions Gallery (£206,003), Open Eye (£246,759), and The Photographers' Gallery (£918,867). 

Download the full dataset here: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/investment23

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12201208698?profile=originalThe Icon Photographic Materials Group is delighted to announce its upcoming online event: Lightning-talks (following on from the group’s Round Table events) accompanied by the group’s 2022 Annual General Meeting. The event will consist of a series of five-minute presentations followed by questions and discussion. As always the event is welcome to anyone with an interest in the care and preservation of photographic materials.

We invite abstract submissions from conservators and non-conservators, whether you work in public institutions, private practice or education. Subjects could include sustainability, education, career development, preventive conservation and storage, scientific and analytical research, documentation, treatment practices, theory, history and ethics, outreach and funding (among others!). 

If you’d like to give a five-minute presentation, please send a titled abstract (c.100 words) with your name and affiliation to phmgicon@gmail.com by Monday 14th November. Presentations should include around five PowerPoint slides, which should be illustrative rather than textual. Please get in touch as soon as possible for further details or to discuss your idea.

The Lightning-Talks event will be followed by a brief update from the group committee.

Lightning Talks and AGM
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 10 am - 1 pm
Online

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