Wed 21 Nov, 2018 History of Photography, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Images of Futures Past: The Lebanese Rocket Society

From 1960 to 1966, a group of university students from Beirut’s Haigazian University designed and tested a series of rockets that would be capable of reaching beyond the earth’s atmosphere. This talk examines Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s film, The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012), an experimental documentary that sheds light…

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Wed 23 May, 2018 History of Photography, Panel Discussion, Research Forum

‘The Camera: Essence and Apparatus’

On the occasion of the launch of the book The Camera: Essence and Apparatus by Victor Burgin, please join us for a panel discussion between the author and Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck College, University of London), Clara Schulman (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux), and Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld Institute of…

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Thu 22 Mar, 2018 History of Photography, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Rethinking the Cold War Traffic in Photographs: Henri Car...

In 1967 IBM commissioned Henri Cartier-Bresson to produce a portfolio of photographic images depicting human relationships with technology around the world. These images, along with a selection from the photographer’s previous works, were realised in 1968 as the touring exhibition and photobook Man and Machine. In contrast to the images…

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Wed 22 Nov, 2017 History of Photography, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Sunil Janah and the development of a modern ocular aesthe...

This talk focuses on the remarkable visual archive of documentary photographer Sunil Janah (1918-2012). From young and brash bad boy recruit of the Communist Party of India to business-savvy photographer of Nehruvian technocratic India, we explore a career marked by the holocaust of famine, unlikely international affiliations, profound political disillusionment and…

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Mon 20 Mar, 2017 Dress Talks, History of Photography

Ad/dressing History: Thoughts on historical pageants as p...

The early twentieth century saw a craze for historical pageants – popular re-enactments of the history of a locality. In these the stress on authenticity of historical representation through words, scenes and costume was particularly important. I consider the role of photography in perpetuating these quasi-ritual processes, values and the…

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Wed 8 Jun, 2016 History of Photography, Research Seminars

Self(ie) control: Photography, discourse and social organ...

Selfies – or rather the popular conception of selfies, as problematic and trivial – demonstrate a connection between photographic practice and social discipline. My research has traced how the discussion of selfies establishes rules for conduct (“don’t take selfies here, or like this”) and identifies subjects with certain qualities (selfie-taker…

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Wed 2 Mar, 2016 History of Photography

Eating the Bones: an Exploration of the Politics of Plant...

In this artist talk, Corinne Silva will discuss recent works including site-specific photographic installation Imported Landscapes (2010) in which she explores the effect of human activity on land, geographic and political borders, migration and ecology. Made in Israel/Palestine, her photographic and sound installations in Garden State (2014) explore Israeli suburban…

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