Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography
By Oxford University
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Description
This major international conference was convened by Geraldine Johnson (University of Oxford), Deborah Schultz (Regent's University London), and Costanza Caraffa (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut). It is the sixth in the Photo Archives conference series. This conference took place on April 20–21, 2017. The conference investigated photographs and photographic archives in relation to notions of place. In this context, place was used to explore both the physical location of a photograph or archive, as well as the place of photography as a discursive practice with regard to its value or significance as a method of viewing and conceiving the world. Photographs are mobile objects that can change their location over time, transported to diverse commercial, artistic, social, academic and scientific locations. The photograph’s physical location thus has an impact upon its value, function and significance; these topics were explored at the conference through a range of archives and across disciplines. How might the mobility of photographs open up thinking about archives and, in turn, classificatory structures in disciplines such as Art History, Archaeology and Anthropology, or in the Sciences? The conference also addressed questions of digital space, which renders the image more readily accessible, but complicates issues relating to location. What is the place, or value, of the photographic archive in the digital age? It was sponsored by the Kress Foundation, the John Fell Fund and the History Faculty's Sanderson Fund at the University of Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography and the Phases of Digitisation | Nina Lager Vestberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) discusses the digital condition of photography through a phase model of digitisation. What do we talk about when we talk about digitisation? People working with photographic images ten | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Archive, Exhibition, Book: 'The Family of Man' Reconstituted | Shamoon Zamir (New York University Abu Dhabi) discusses the 'The Family of Man' exhibition and its related archives. Apart from early reviewers and commentators, everyone who has written on the famous The Family of Man Exhibition has done so without the | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Archiving Royal Heirlooms: The publication of the Crown treasures of the Galerie d'Apollon (Louvre) and its materiality | Pascal Griener (University of Neuchatel) discusses photographic reproductions of the French crown jewels made for their auction in 1887. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the royal heirlooms were exhibited in the Galerie d’Apollon in t | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: From Trash to Treasure: Loss, Value, and the Photo Archive | Catherine E. Clark (MIT) discusses the life cycle of anonymous photographic archives. This paper examines the trope of ‘trash to treasure’ in the history of photo archives. This paper’s key example is the revaluation and profit generation of an ar | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Saving Space, Mediating Place: Photography and the Reproduction of Collections and Archives | Estelle Blaschke (University of Lausanne) discusses the development and growth in use of microfilm during the 1920s and 1930s. The use of photography as a copying machine in libraries and museums started around 1870. While the potential and the advantag | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Photography as Protocol | Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University) discusses photography as a scientific protocol This talk examines the idea that photography has entered into the protocols of archive practice, informing and perhaps deforming them beyond recognition. What might a | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: The Laboratory as Photo Archive | Chitra Ramalingam (Yale University) discusses photographic collections within science laboratories Experimental practice in laboratories sometimes generates vast quantities of visual records. Such sites produce an imperative to analyse, store, and bring | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Vision in Doubt: Arctic Photography, Victorian Geology, and its Anglo-American Debates | Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews) discusses Victorian arctic photography in The Arctic Regions (1873) and an unpublished album. William Bradford's The Arctic Regions has often been cited as an exemplar of the Victorianera photobook. Published in 1 | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Sticking points: Photographic albums and the forgetful archives of Egyptian archaeology | Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia) discusses the 'forgetfulness' of photo albums from excavations in colonial and interwar Egypt. Almost every archive associated with fieldwork from archaeology's 'golden age' includes photographic albums. The a | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: The Relational Album: Photographic Networks, Anthropology, and the Learned Society | Christopher Morton (University of Oxford) discusses the concept of the relational museum applied to an album from the Anthropological Society in London. This paper takes the notion of the ‘relational museum’ – the concept that museum objects to so | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: The Archive in Transition: Reframing Josef Sudek’s Photographic Reproductions of Art | Katarina Masterova (Institute of Art History, The Czech Academy of Sciences) discusses the objecthood of Josef Sudek's photographic archive. This paper examines the process of revaluing Josef Sudek’s (1896–1976) professional archive of almost 20,000 | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI: Transports of Vision: Frederic Edwin Church's Photographic Collection of the Mediterranean and Middle East | Frederick N. Bohrer (Hood College) discusses Frederic Edwin Church's photographic collection. The 19th-century American painter Frederic Edwin Church’s photographic collection is an object lesson in archival curation. It does not fully illustrate or i | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI Welcome Day 2 | Opening remarks on the second day of the conference. Costanza Caraffa has been Head of the Photothek at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut since 2006. In 2009 she initiated the Photo Archives conference series dedicated to th | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photo Archives VI Welcome Day 1 | Opening remarks on the first day of the conference. Geraldine A. Johnson is Associate Professor of History of Art at Oxford University and a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. She is the editor of Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension | 9 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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