Dick Weindling has published a blog on the Willesden factory which produced colour Vivex prints as Colour Photographs Ltd and hen as Colour Photographs (British and Foreign) Ltd. Vivex prints form much of the new Yevonde exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The first directors were involved with the Raphael studio in London's Knightsbridge.
Read the blog post here: http://kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2023/07/early-colour-photography-willesden.html
De Montfort University (DMU) is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Photographic History. DMU is an ambitious, globally minded and culturally rich university with a strong commitment to the public good. We strive to maintain a stimulating and inclusive environment that champions difference and celebrates success.
Faculty / Directorate
BA (Hons) History at De Montfort sits within the School of Humanities and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities. The School has a vibrant cluster of programmes which comprise of History, Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, Politics and International Relations. The university is one of just 17 universities worldwide to be an ambassador for the UN Sustainable Development Goals and one of 17 in the UK with the Race Equality Charter Mark. We are proud of our commitment to excellent teaching and learning, and our outstanding research profile.
Role
As a lecturer in Photographic History, you will teach and assess across a range of BA History and MA Photographic History modules, and take on a supervisory role for dissertations. You will take on some administrative duties, provide pastoral care and contribute to the student experience. Knowledge and willingness to contribute towards recruitment is desirable. The History team is research active and you will contribute through your research and scholarship to the Institute of History. Alongside the History team, you will work closely with the Photographic History Research Centre.
This is a temporary, full time (1.0 FTE) post to provide 12 months or when the post holder returns cover for maternity leave. We are looking for the successful candidate to start 1st September 2023.
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will have teaching experience and research interests in any period of modern history since c. 1780. A specialisation in one or more of the following is essential: Photographic History, Cultural History; History of Medicine is preferred. You will be expected to teach the BA History modules ‘Photography and Conflict’ and ‘Global Cities’ and postgraduate modules ‘Photography, Ethic and Emotions.’ You will also contribute to other team-taught courses on historiography and methodology. The successful candidate should be actively engaged in their own research and have experience of teaching and researching within a Higher Education environment. A PhD in a related area is essential. You will possess excellent communication, inter-personal and networking skills, with a strong commitment to delivering an excellent student experience and to working within a team.
Details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBD082/lecturer-in-photographic-history
Carolyn Peter started a new role as Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum on 12 June. Carolyn joined the Getty Museum as a part-time curatorial assistant in 2018 after a varied career as a museum director at the Laband Art Gallery (2006 - 2016), and curatorial positions in photography and graphic arts at the Hammer Museum, LACMA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She has her M.A. from London's Courtauld Institute of Art, where she wrote her thesis on the status of photography at the 1855 Exposition Universelle. Carolyn will be the presenting curator for 19th-Century Photography Now (curated by Karen Hellman) and the co-curator (with Karen Hellman) for Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer, both opening here on April 9, 2024.
Analogue photography is an industry of many moving parts; photographs are made of precious metals and materials that have complex histories. This series unpicks some of the politics of colonial projects and environmentalism, and how these link to analogue industries. We will draw on these discussions to enable us to develop more sustainable thinking and practice in photography.
This is a three-part, online workshop taking place over three Tuesdays in August: 1st, 8th and 15th from 5-7 GMT pm online. Experience open - we welcome practitioners wanting to build critical thinking skills.
Session 1: Groundwork: Towards A Decolonial Ecology (1st August)
Engagement with debates surrounding empires, environmentalism and analogue industries, and how these entangle in our present epoch of the Anthropocene:
How was colonialism rationalised and how does this continue to permeate contemporary photographic industries and worlds? What are some critiques of environmental movements? Who or what was sacrificed to make way for analogue industries?
In session activities include show & tell and short writing tasks
Self-directed work includes watching a video lecture by Dr. Malcom Ferdinand
Session 2: Material Mapping (8th August)
In this session we will analyse the material base of photographs and examine the many worlds that they entangle with. What are the metals, minerals and animal products that form photographic film and papers ?
You will be guided through how to trace materials relevant to your own practice (ie dye/ toner / paper) and generate a map of images that poetically describes the relations between this material and wider human and more-than-human worlds.
Self - directed work includes reading an article and preparing images for the final session.
Session 3: Light & Leaf: Connecting Worlds (15th August)
This final session culminates in a chlorophyll printing workshop. Chlorophyll printing is a simple photographic process that uses sunlight to print images directly on the leaf surface.
This session aims to combine the critical explorations of the first two sessions, with ecological printing methods.
Image, Empire & Ecology: Critical Perspectives
Alice Cazenave, co-director at the Sustainable Darkroom
Online, 1st, 8th, 15th August 2023
£80-95
Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/image-empire-ecology-critical-perspectives-tickets-668066483837
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker.
This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women photographers, both professional and amateur, who operated in New Zealand from the 1860s to 1960, either as assistants in the early studios or later running studios in their own right.
It takes the reader on a journey through the backrooms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographic studios, into private homes, out onto the street and up into the mountains, and looks at the range of photographic practices in which women were involved. Through superb images and fascinating individual stories, it brings an important group of photographers into the light.
Publication date: June 2023
NZ RRP (incl. GST): $75
Extent: 368 pages
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9951384-9-0
This exhibition draws on a major new publication from Te Papa Press and curator Lissa Mitchell. It presents a selection of portraits made by women photographers, and studio operators and employees, between 1860 and 1960.
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Ka takea mai tēnei whakaaturanga i tētahi whakaputanga matua hou nā Te Papa Press me Lissa Mitchell, te kairauhī. He whakaatu i tētahi kōwhiringa o ngā whakaahua kiritangata he mea waihanga e ngā wāhine kaiwhakaahua, kaiwhakahaere taupuni, kaimahi hoki, i waenga i ngā tau 1860 ki 1960.
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women photographers, both professional and amateur, who operated in New Zealand from the 1860s to 1960, either as assistants in the early studios or later running studios in their own right.
It takes the reader on a journey through the backrooms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographic studios, into private homes, out onto the street and up into the mountains, and looks at the range of photographic practices in which women were involved. Through superb images and fascinating individual stories, it brings an important group of photographers into the light.
Publication date: June 2023
NZ RRP (incl. GST): $75
Extent: 368 pages
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9951384-9-0
This exhibition draws on a major new publication from Te Papa Press and curator Lissa Mitchell. It presents a selection of portraits made by women photographers, and studio operators and employees, between 1860 and 1960.
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Ka takea mai tēnei whakaaturanga i tētahi whakaputanga matua hou nā Te Papa Press me Lissa Mitchell, te kairauhī. He whakaatu i tētahi kōwhiringa o ngā whakaahua kiritangata he mea waihanga e ngā wāhine kaiwhakaahua, kaiwhakahaere taupuni, kaimahi hoki, i waenga i ngā tau 1860 ki 1960.
