'Photographic Societies and Camera Clubs'
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Historical accounts of clubs and societies are scarce, because many of these groups, considered to be minor, were not listed in the photographic annals and their collections have been broken up, dispersed or even lost. Yet, this club life was how people learnt photography, allowed its membership to receive by various ways a collaborative and efficient training through group participation. This one-day workshop, with 13 international speakers including Michael Pritchard (Royal Photographic Society) and Anne McCauley (Professor of History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University) 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.
Organised by Jason Bate (Birkbeck), speakers include Michael Pritchard (Royal Photographic Society), Sean Willcock (University of Oxford), Helene Orain (Independent Researcher), Alexandra Courtois de Viçose (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Anne McCauley (Princeton University), Carolin Görgen (Sorbonne University), Julie Gibb (National Museums Scotland), Janine Freeston (Independent Researcher), Robert Kehl (University of the Arts, Berlin), Alexandra Dennett (Harvard University), Mi Zhou (University of St Andrews), Francesca Issatt (Birkbeck/Victoria & Albert Museum), Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton). For full details of titles of papers, speakers and abstracts, contact Jason Bate - j.bate@bbk.ac.uk
Contact name:
Jason Bate