Art History Radio Hour with Mette Sandbye
Mette Sandbye is a Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. With an educational background in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Cultural Communication, and a PhD on photography and memory in contemporary art, Mette specializes in photography studies. However, she also has a long career as a critic of contemporary art. Her books include the first history of Danish photography, Dansk Fotografihistorie, which she edited in 2004, and another co-edited anthology, Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography (2014). Her current research focuses on the relationship between amateur photography and collective history since the 1960s, centred on the family photo-album. In 2019, she embarked on a collaborative Nordic project on women as professional photographers in Scandinavia 1880-1930.
Date: 27 October 2021, 17:00
Venue: On Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Mette Sandbye (Copenhagen)
Organising department: Department of History of Art
Organiser contact email address: admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Art History Radio Hour - Michaelmas Term 2021
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark