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SEMINAR “TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF PHOTOLITERATURE AND THE PHOTOBOOK”: Portraits and literature
“In the Shop Window, in the Pocket, on the Mantelpiece, and in the Text: Photographic Card Portraits in the Work of Thomas Hardy”
Sarah Hook, Wolfson College
“I would give anything for a good photograph taken at the right minute”, A.C. Swinburne and the Fetishism of Representation”
Andria Pancrazi, Oriel College
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This international seminar series brings together researchers working on photography and the book with interdisciplinary approaches, connecting the aesthetic and material dimensions of the photobook with social, economic and political perspectives.
Whilst the scope of the seminar encompasses general aspects of “photography and literature” — such as photographically illustrated fiction, writers’ portraits, the use of photographic activities, products or metaphors in writing — the primary theme of the seminar is the history and current state of the photobook. The aim is to encourage and disseminate research on its social history, its physical forms (including digital), its relations with the art market/bibliophile market, its networks of production, circulation, readership, as well as its engagement with race, whiteness, colonialism, gender and sexuality, and, where pertinent, its ethnographic methods.
Since the end of the economic model that allowed photojournalism to flourish in periodicals over the course of the twentieth century, photographers have increasingly resorted to alternative spaces, and most notably the book. Since the well-distributed publication of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History (2004), interest in photographers’ books has increased dramatically at auction houses, and the question of “value” has become insistent and complex. Book studies, anthropology, sociology, comparative literature, history of art… different disciplines can help shed light on the social meanings of photobooks, hence the need for an interdisciplinary seminar.
www.mfo.cnrs.fr/calendar/portraits-and-literature
Date:
7 March 2018, 17:15
Venue:
2-10 Norham Road, OX26SE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser:
Paul Edwards (Université Paris Diderot - MFO)
Organiser contact email address:
Paul.EDWARDS@cnrs.fr
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Robert Hoare
