Musée et photographie – École du Louvre / Musée du Louvre – Atelier doctoral 2024 (scadenza 22 ottobre 2023)

Musée et photographie. École du Louvre / Musée du Louvre. Atelier doctoral 2024.

Appel à candidatures.

Pour la huitième année consécutive, l’École du Louvre et le musée du Louvre (direction des Études muséales et de l’Appui à la recherche) organisent en commun un atelier doctoral, une journée par mois de janvier à mai/juin 2024, au Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon (musée du Louvre, entrée Porte des Arts).

Le musée du Louvre témoigne par son histoire et sa très riche documentation photographique de la place indiscutable et nécessaire de la photographie en tant que médium documentaire et objet artistique. De la même manière, l’École du Louvre par son enseignement sur l’objet illustre la place occupée au fil des évolutions technologiques par le support photographique dans la constitution et la diffusion des savoirs en archéologie et en histoire de l’art. L’atelier doctoral des deux institutions interrogera en 2024 la multiplicité des usages de la photographie au musée.

Dès le XIXe siècle, la photographie a transformé le musée. Prenant le musée pour objet, devenant objet de musée, s’imposant au cœur de nombreuses pratiques muséales, favorisant la connaissance et la popularisation des collections, leur instrumentalisation et leur détournement, la technique a construit autant la réalité que l’imaginaire des musées. Poursuivi au XXe siècle avec le développement des techniques d’impression, de la photographie en couleurs, et de nouveaux médias, ce processus s’accélère encore, toujours plus globalement, en plus haute résolution, voire en trois dimensions. Le musée s’invente par la photographie ; son histoire s’écrit par elle. Médium de la mémoire, la photographie a une dimension muséale. L’atelier doctoral suggère d’approfondir les thèmes suivants :

Le musée comme objet de la photographie. Les musées et leurs collections ont été photographiés très tôt et abondamment. Une visite muséale est généralement préparée et suivie, voire remplacée, par la vue de photographies. Comment le musée existe-t-il par extension de lui-même, en tant qu’objet photographique ? En quels lieux, sous quelles formes, par quels acteurs, avec quels droits, pour quelles pratiques et quelles idées ? En retour, comment la photographie détermine-t-elle la visite au musée, et la réalité des musées ?

La photographie au musée. Au musée, la photographie est un outil, qui sert à étudier, gérer, faire connaître, s’approprier les collections. La photographie est aussi objet de musée, au sein de fonds d’archives ou de dispositifs muséographiques, comme document ou œuvre d’art. On considèrera les pratiques aussi bien que les collections photographiques, du daguerréotype à la photogrammétrie, et aux autres techniques d’imagerie.

Photographie, arts et sciences. Au-delà des musées, la photographie informe l’élaboration, la diffusion et l’appropriation des connaissances en histoire de l’art, en archéologie et dans d’autres sciences. Au cœur des rapports entre les musées, la recherche, l’enseignement, les publications et la société, elle favorise une perception spécifique des objets : longtemps monochrome, souvent hors d’échelle, avant tout visuelle et bidimensionnelle. Quelles sont les forces et les travers de la photographie ? Comment penser le musée par-delà la photographie ?

Les participant(e)s à l’atelier présenteront en français ou en anglais leurs travaux en histoire de l’art, histoire des sciences, archéologie, muséologie et autres sciences sociales. Il s’adresse en priorité aux doctorant(e)s (de toutes institutions), mais des candidatures liées à des projets de post-doc s’inscrivant particulièrement bien dans la problématique pourront être considérées. Invité(e)s et visites complèteront le programme. Une large place sera donnée aux discussions. Les voyages des participant(e)s résidant hors de l’Île-de-France pourront être pris en charge dans certains cas (indiquer vos besoins dans la candidature).

Merci d’envoyer vos candidatures (lettre de motivation, CV, exposé du projet sur une page) d’ici au 22 octobre 2023 en un seul document pdf à troisiemecycle@ecoledulouvre.fr et philippe.cordez@louvre.fr, objet : Atelier doctoral Louvre.

Organisation
Cecila Hurley-Griener, HDR, Centre de recherche de l’École du Louvre / chercheuse rattachée aux collections spéciales, responsable du pôle patrimonial, Université de Neuchâtel
Françoise Mardrus, directrice, direction des études muséales et de l’appui à la recherche, musée du Louvre
Philippe Cordez, HDR, adjoint à la directrice, chef du service de l’appui à la recherche, direction des études muséales et de l’appui à la recherche, musée du Louvre

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Museum and Photography

École du Louvre / Musée du Louvre
Doctoral workshop 2024

Call for applications

For the eighth consecutive year, the École du Louvre and the Musée du Louvre (Museum Studies and Research Support Department) are jointly organizing a doctoral workshop, one day per month from January to May/June 2024, at the Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon (Musée du Louvre, entrance Porte des Arts).

Through its history and its rich photographic documentation, the Louvre Museum testifies to the undeniable and necessary place of photography as a documentary medium and an artistic object. Similarly, the École du Louvre, whose degree programmes include working with objects, illustrates the place occupied by the photographic medium (in its various manifestations) in the formation and dissemination of knowledge in archaeology and art history. The doctoral workshop organised by the two institutions in 2024 will examine the multiplicity of uses of photography in the museum.

As early as the nineteenth century, photography transformed the museum. Taking the museum as its object, becoming a museum object, establishing itself at the heart of many museum practices, promoting awareness and popularization of collections, their exploitation and (mis)appropriation, technology has shaped both the reality and the imagination of museums. Continuing in the twentieth century with the development of printing techniques, colour photography, and new media, this process is accelerating even more globally, in higher resolution, and even in three dimensions. The museum is invented by photography; its history is written by it. As a medium of memory, photography has a museum dimension. The doctoral workshop suggests exploring the following topics:

The museum as an object of photography. Museums and their collections have been photographed very early and extensively. A museum visit is usually prepared and followed, or even replaced, by the viewing of photographs. How does the museum exist by extension of itself, as a photographic object? In which places, in which forms, by which actors, with which rights, for which practices and ideas? In return, how does photography determine the visit to the museum, and the reality of the museums?

Photography in the museum. In the museum, photography is a tool used to study, manage, publicize and appropriate collections. Photography is also the subject of museums, in archives or museum facilities, as documents or works of art. Both practices and photographic collections will be considered, from daguerreotype to photogrammetry, and other imaging techniques.

Photography, arts and sciences. Beyond museums, photography informs the development, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge in art history, archaeology and other sciences. At the heart of the relationships between museums, research, education, publications and society, it fosters a specific perception of objects: monochrome for a long time, often out of scale, above all visual and two-dimensional. What are the strengths and shortcomings of photography? How can we think of the museum beyond photography?

Workshop participants will present their work in the history of art, the history of science, archaeology, museology and other social sciences in either French or English. It is primarily aimed at doctoral students (from all institutions), but applications related to post-doc projects that are particularly relevant to the issue may be considered. The programme will also include some visits and some contributions from guest speakers. The workshop is intended as a space for discussion. Travel expenses for participants residing outside Île-de-France may be covered in some cases (please specify your needs in the application).

Please send your applications (cover letter, CV, project description on one page) by October 22, 2023 as a single pdf document to troisiemecycle@ecoledulouvre.fr and philippe.cordez@louvre.fr, subject: Louvre doctoral workshop.

Musée et photographie. École du Louvre / Musée du Louvre. Atelier doctoral 2024.

Appel à candidatures.

Pour la huitième année consécutive, l’École du Louvre et le musée du Louvre (direction des Études muséales et de l’Appui à la recherche) organisent en commun un atelier doctoral, une journée par mois de janvier à mai/juin 2024, au Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon (musée du Louvre, entrée Porte des Arts).

Le musée du Louvre témoigne par son histoire et sa très riche documentation photographique de la place indiscutable et nécessaire de la photographie en tant que médium documentaire et objet artistique. De la même manière, l’École du Louvre par son enseignement sur l’objet illustre la place occupée au fil des évolutions technologiques par le support photographique dans la constitution et la diffusion des savoirs en archéologie et en histoire de l’art. L’atelier doctoral des deux institutions interrogera en 2024 la multiplicité des usages de la photographie au musée.

Dès le XIXe siècle, la photographie a transformé le musée. Prenant le musée pour objet, devenant objet de musée, s’imposant au cœur de nombreuses pratiques muséales, favorisant la connaissance et la popularisation des collections, leur instrumentalisation et leur détournement, la technique a construit autant la réalité que l’imaginaire des musées. Poursuivi au XXe siècle avec le développement des techniques d’impression, de la photographie en couleurs, et de nouveaux médias, ce processus s’accélère encore, toujours plus globalement, en plus haute résolution, voire en trois dimensions. Le musée s’invente par la photographie ; son histoire s’écrit par elle. Médium de la mémoire, la photographie a une dimension muséale. L’atelier doctoral suggère d’approfondir les thèmes suivants :

Le musée comme objet de la photographie. Les musées et leurs collections ont été photographiés très tôt et abondamment. Une visite muséale est généralement préparée et suivie, voire remplacée, par la vue de photographies. Comment le musée existe-t-il par extension de lui-même, en tant qu’objet photographique ? En quels lieux, sous quelles formes, par quels acteurs, avec quels droits, pour quelles pratiques et quelles idées ? En retour, comment la photographie détermine-t-elle la visite au musée, et la réalité des musées ?

La photographie au musée. Au musée, la photographie est un outil, qui sert à étudier, gérer, faire connaître, s’approprier les collections. La photographie est aussi objet de musée, au sein de fonds d’archives ou de dispositifs muséographiques, comme document ou œuvre d’art. On considèrera les pratiques aussi bien que les collections photographiques, du daguerréotype à la photogrammétrie, et aux autres techniques d’imagerie.

Photographie, arts et sciences. Au-delà des musées, la photographie informe l’élaboration, la diffusion et l’appropriation des connaissances en histoire de l’art, en archéologie et dans d’autres sciences. Au cœur des rapports entre les musées, la recherche, l’enseignement, les publications et la société, elle favorise une perception spécifique des objets : longtemps monochrome, souvent hors d’échelle, avant tout visuelle et bidimensionnelle. Quelles sont les forces et les travers de la photographie ? Comment penser le musée par-delà la photographie ?

Les participant(e)s à l’atelier présenteront en français ou en anglais leurs travaux en histoire de l’art, histoire des sciences, archéologie, muséologie et autres sciences sociales. Il s’adresse en priorité aux doctorant(e)s (de toutes institutions), mais des candidatures liées à des projets de post-doc s’inscrivant particulièrement bien dans la problématique pourront être considérées. Invité(e)s et visites complèteront le programme. Une large place sera donnée aux discussions. Les voyages des participant(e)s résidant hors de l’Île-de-France pourront être pris en charge dans certains cas (indiquer vos besoins dans la candidature).

Merci d’envoyer vos candidatures (lettre de motivation, CV, exposé du projet sur une page) d’ici au 22 octobre 2023 en un seul document pdf à troisiemecycle@ecoledulouvre.fr et philippe.cordez@louvre.fr, objet : Atelier doctoral Louvre.

Organisation
Cecila Hurley-Griener, HDR, Centre de recherche de l’École du Louvre / chercheuse rattachée aux collections spéciales, responsable du pôle patrimonial, Université de Neuchâtel
Françoise Mardrus, directrice, direction des études muséales et de l’appui à la recherche, musée du Louvre
Philippe Cordez, HDR, adjoint à la directrice, chef du service de l’appui à la recherche, direction des études muséales et de l’appui à la recherche, musée du Louvre

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Museum and Photography

École du Louvre / Musée du Louvre
Doctoral workshop 2024

Call for applications

For the eighth consecutive year, the École du Louvre and the Musée du Louvre (Museum Studies and Research Support Department) are jointly organizing a doctoral workshop, one day per month from January to May/June 2024, at the Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon (Musée du Louvre, entrance Porte des Arts).

Through its history and its rich photographic documentation, the Louvre Museum testifies to the undeniable and necessary place of photography as a documentary medium and an artistic object. Similarly, the École du Louvre, whose degree programmes include working with objects, illustrates the place occupied by the photographic medium (in its various manifestations) in the formation and dissemination of knowledge in archaeology and art history. The doctoral workshop organised by the two institutions in 2024 will examine the multiplicity of uses of photography in the museum.

As early as the nineteenth century, photography transformed the museum. Taking the museum as its object, becoming a museum object, establishing itself at the heart of many museum practices, promoting awareness and popularization of collections, their exploitation and (mis)appropriation, technology has shaped both the reality and the imagination of museums. Continuing in the twentieth century with the development of printing techniques, colour photography, and new media, this process is accelerating even more globally, in higher resolution, and even in three dimensions. The museum is invented by photography; its history is written by it. As a medium of memory, photography has a museum dimension. The doctoral workshop suggests exploring the following topics:

The museum as an object of photography. Museums and their collections have been photographed very early and extensively. A museum visit is usually prepared and followed, or even replaced, by the viewing of photographs. How does the museum exist by extension of itself, as a photographic object? In which places, in which forms, by which actors, with which rights, for which practices and ideas? In return, how does photography determine the visit to the museum, and the reality of the museums?

Photography in the museum. In the museum, photography is a tool used to study, manage, publicize and appropriate collections. Photography is also the subject of museums, in archives or museum facilities, as documents or works of art. Both practices and photographic collections will be considered, from daguerreotype to photogrammetry, and other imaging techniques.

Photography, arts and sciences. Beyond museums, photography informs the development, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge in art history, archaeology and other sciences. At the heart of the relationships between museums, research, education, publications and society, it fosters a specific perception of objects: monochrome for a long time, often out of scale, above all visual and two-dimensional. What are the strengths and shortcomings of photography? How can we think of the museum beyond photography?

Workshop participants will present their work in the history of art, the history of science, archaeology, museology and other social sciences in either French or English. It is primarily aimed at doctoral students (from all institutions), but applications related to post-doc projects that are particularly relevant to the issue may be considered. The programme will also include some visits and some contributions from guest speakers. The workshop is intended as a space for discussion. Travel expenses for participants residing outside Île-de-France may be covered in some cases (please specify your needs in the application).

Please send your applications (cover letter, CV, project description on one page) by October 22, 2023 as a single pdf document to troisiemecycle@ecoledulouvre.fr and philippe.cordez@louvre.fr, subject: Louvre doctoral workshop.

Organization
Cecilia Hurley-Griener, HDR, Centre de recherche de l’École du Louvre / Researcher attached to Special Collections, Head of the Heritage Cluster, University of Neuchâtel
Françoise Mardrus, Director, Museum Studies and Research Support Department, Musée du Louvre
Philippe Cordez, HDR, Deputy Director, Head of the Research Support Division, Museum Studies and Research Support Department, Musée du Louvre

RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia: presentazione dei nn. 11 e 12 (25 maggio 2023, online)

Questa sera, a seguito dell’Assemblea ordinaria della Società Italiana per lo Studio della Fotografia (SISF) che avrà inizio in via telematica ore 17:00, verranno presentati gli ultimi due numeri di RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia.

25 maggio 2023, ore 18:00 (online)

Presentazione di RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, n. 11
Numero monografico “Fotografia e ambiente”, a cura di Antonello Frongia e Tiziana Serena
Discussant: Davide Papotti, professore ordinario di Geografia, Università degli Studi di Parma.

Presentazione di RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, n. 12
Numero monografico “Fotografia, identità, alterità”, a cura di Nicoletta Leonardi e Monica Maffioli
Discussant: Antonello Ricci, professore ordinario di Discipline DemoEtnoAntropologiche, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”.

Chi desidera partecipare ma non è socio SISF può richiedere il link scrivendo a info@sisf.eu o a afrongia@uniroma3.it.

Chi desidera associarsi può trovare le modalità sul sito SISF. Sono previsti quattro livelli di associazione: studente €10; ordinario €40, sostenitore €50, istituzionale €500. La quota associativa, con l’eccezione del livello studente, comprende l’invio della copia cartacea della rivista (prezzo di copertina €30).

La SISF – Società Italiana per lo Studio della Fotografia, nata nel 2006, è una comunità di studiosi, studenti, professionisti e appassionati che volontariamente condividono le proprie esperienze, competenze e attività nei campi dello studio, della conservazione, dell’editoria, della creazione, del giornalismo, della progettazione culturale attorno alla cultura della fotografia e dell’immagine. Il Presidente in carica è Giovanni Fiorentino, professore ordinario di Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi presso l’Università della Tuscia.

RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, fondata nel 2015 e diretta da Tiziana Serena (Università di Firenze) con Antonello Frongia (Università Roma Tre), è il periodico della Società Italiana per lo Studio della Fotografia. È riconosciuta dall’ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca) come rivista scientifica di classe A per le aree 10/B1 (Storia dell’arte) e 10/C1 (Teatro, Musica, Cinema, Televisione e Media Audiovisivi); è inoltre riconosciuta come rivista di livello scientifico per le aree 10 (Scienze delle antichità, filologiche, letterarie e storico-artistiche) e 11 (Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche).
La rivista è pubblicata da Forum. Editrice universitaria udinese sotto una licenza Creative Commons 4.0 ed è indicizzata in DOAJ, EBSCO, Google Scholar, ProQuest, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

Conferenza: “Cold War Visual Legacies. A public roundtable and symposium on photography and the Cold War” (25-26 maggio 2023)

25 May 2023 – Public Roundtable, 5 pm – 7 pm CEST – at SPUI25

26 May 2023 – Symposium, 9:30 am – 5:15 pm CEST – at SPUI25

Cold War Visual Legacies brings together critics, students, photographers, photojournalists, and curators working across the humanities and social sciences, to explore the manifold and diffuse ways that photography shapes visual culture in the afterlife of the global Cold War, particularly as they compel examination of the ongoing impact of imperialism and militarization.

For detailed information please view the program here.

To register for the public roundtable.

Venue: SPUI25 – Spui 25, 1012 XA Amsterdam Amsterdam

Convegno: “Aesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective” (Fribourg, 26-27 maggio 2023)

Aesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective / Réalisme en perspective / Perspektiven des Realismus (Fribourg, 26-27.05.2023)

Back to Reality! Whether in art or philosophy, recent years have witnessed an outright run on the real, under banners such as speculative realism, neo-materialism, documentality, eco-realism, speculative poetics, or object-oriented aesthetics. Only progressively it starts to become clear that what these approaches respectively mean by realism differs sharply. The workshop shall confront various epistemic and artistic strategies seeking to grasp the ever-evading nature of reality, and work towards understanding the reasons behind this renewed desire for touching the “thing itself”. If the only claim these different realisms seem to agree upon is the need to decentre the human perspective, could it be that perspectivalness itself provides a key to a novel understanding of reality?

Organized as part of the workshop series Aesthetics & Critique (https://projects.unifr.ch/aesthetics-critique/) with the participation of the SNSF-funded research project Real Abstractions (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/207845).

Conference programme

Participation is free, registration (by e-mail to alessandro.decesaris@unifr.ch or tobias.ertl@unifr.ch) is appreciated.

Convegno: “Le raccolte fotografiche storiche nelle Accademie di Belle Arti e nelle Scuole di Arti Applicate” (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, 18-19 maggio 2023)

Il convegno Le raccolte fotografiche storiche nelle Accademie di Belle Arti e nelle Scuole di Arti Applicate: un patrimonio da salvaguardare (qui il programma) si svolgerà il 18 e 19 maggio 2023 in modalità mista all’Accademia di Brera e su piattaforma Meet.

Modulo di partecipazione: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FNBeASXdkEglyPf_qO6WdwhRrmw-KrzO6oyr_5Gc1sk/edit

Info: fotografie.accademie@gmail.com

Call for contributions: “Il colore fotografico in Italia: pratiche, linguaggi, estetiche” (RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, 8 settembre 2023)

È stata pubblicata la nuova call for contributions per la sezione monografica del n. 14 di RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, dedicata a “Il colore fotografico in Italia: pratiche, linguaggi, estetiche”. La scadenza per l’invio dei contributi (max 42.000 caratteri) è l’8 settembre 2023. Il testo integrale e le indicazioni della call sono disponibili qui.

La redazione è inoltre lieta di valutare in qualsiasi momento proposte di saggi per la sezione “Ricerche in corso” (max 35.000 caratteri). Gli autori sono invitati a consultare le linee-guida e le norme bibliografiche della rivista.

RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, fondata nel 2015 e diretta da Tiziana Serena, è il periodico open access della Società Italiana per lo Studio della Fotografia. È riconosciuta dall’ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca) come rivista scientifica di classe A per i settori scientifico-disciplinari di Storia dell’arte (10/B1) e Teatro, Musica, Cinema, Televisione e Media Audiovisivi (10/C1); è inoltre riconosciuta come rivista di livello scientifico per le aree 10 (Scienze delle antichità, filologiche, letterarie e storico-artistiche) e 11 (Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche).

Recensione: Julian Bell, Insider Outside (Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, until 4 June 2023)

London Review of Books, vol. 45, n. 10 · 18 May 2023

Vermeer, ‘Woman in Blue Reading a Letter’ (c. 1663–64)

‘Can it be a coincidence that Vermeer’s rise to prominence occurred in the later 19th century, after eyes had become attuned to daguerreotypes? His art seems to record appearance as tonally as a photosensitive sheet, with as little reliance on contours, and the question of how much he relied on lens technologies has been a constant of subsequent scholarship. Many argue that his pointillés – his dewdrops of bright paint – derive from effects seen in a camera obscura’s projected image. Some compare them to pixels. Again, though, we might remember the weirdness. Oil painting relies on brushes, which are liable to generate lines and dynamism. To eschew those possibilities would long have seemed perverse.’

Read more

Workshop: Comparative perspectives on photography in French and British colonial contexts: heritage, research, politics (Maison Française d’Oxford, 10-11 May 2023)

© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford & © Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Bohumil Holas

https://www.mfo.ac.uk/event/workshop-comparative-perspectives-photography-french-and-british-colonial-contexts-heritage

Participants can either attend onsite or online.
To attend the event onsite, please register here
To attend the event online, please register here


Convened by Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Maison française d’Oxford) & Christopher Morton (Head of Curatorial, Research & Teaching and Associate Professor, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)

Colonial photographic archives have increasingly been acknowledged as ‘contested, critical sites of collection, reflection and re-invention’ (Tamar Garb), raising issues at the intersection of heritage, research and politics. How these issues have been formulated and addressed in museums, universities and societies has sometimes differed across locations and cultural traditions. This informal workshop brings together curators, historians and anthropologists to take stock and compare perspectives on photography in French and British colonial contexts, taking as a focus photographic archives kept at the Pitt Rivers Museum as well as those constituted by the Instituts Français d’Afrique Noire that operated across French West Africa in the middle decades of the twentieth century.


10th May

2:00- 2:30 Tea and coffee

2:30 – 6:30 PM: session 1 at the Maison Française d’Oxford
Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum), Introductory remarks
Anaïs Mauuarin (Ghent University/Musée d’Art et d’histoire de Bruxelles), “IFAN’s Photographic Policy: Images at the heart of Colonial Science” (per videolink)
Julie Cayla (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), “From Colonial Science to Transnational Heritage. The photographic constellation of the Institut français d’Afrique noire (IFAN)”

4:30- 4:45: Tea and coffee break

Fatima Fall et Ismaila Camara, (Centre Recherche et de Documentation du Sénégal- CRDS, Saint Louis, Sénégal), Les fonds photographiques au CRDS et chez des privés à Saint-Louis (per videolink)
Carine Peltier-Caroff (Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris), “la politique documentaire et les projets de recherche des collections de photographies du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac”

6:30 -7:30 PM: Wine and cheese
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11th May

9:30-11:30 AM: session 2 at the Maison Française d’Oxford
Anna Sephton (Pitt Rivers Museum/University of Brighton), “Stretching Queerness, Inhabiting Whiteness: Irene ‘Freddie’ Heseltine’s Photographic Collection of 1930s South Africa”
Anne Friedrike Delouis (MFO/Université d’Orléans), “The photographic archive of a German museum ethnologist’s private mission to India: stylistic experimentation and commercial entanglements in the 1930s”

11:15- 11.30: Tea and coffee break

11:30- 12:30 AM: Keynote Lecture
Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute, London), “(Counter-)Archives and the photographic construction of heritage”

12:30-1:30 PM: Lunch break

2:00-4:30 PM: session 3 at the Pitt Rivers Museum (for speakers only)
2:00 – 3:00 PM: Viewing of archives and group discussion (research room)
3:00 – 3.30 PM: Refreshments in the Natural History Museum café
3.30 – 4.30 PM: Final remarks and round table discussion, led by Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort university/university of Oxford/V&A Research Institute)(research room)

Workshop: Photographs That Unmake Citizens (The Developing Room, Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, April 28, 2023)

The Developing Room at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis is pleased to announce its workshop:

Photographs That Unmake Citizens.

We tend to think of photography and citizenship as having a positive relationship to one another. National identification cards and passport photographs confer citizenship on an individual and confirm that individual’s belonging to a particular political polity. Yet, photographs have also been used to unbind nationals, to undo citizenship, make non-citizens or even construct no-man’s lands. This workshop explores this very particular relationship of photograph and citizenship in four very different historical moments and geographies.

The event will be held in person, and is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a dinner.
[depending on interest, we may make the event available on Zoom as well]
To attend, please RSVP at developingroom@gmail.com
For more information see developingroom.com

Presentations:

April 28, 1:00 – 5:00pm

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Rutgers University: Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the Unmaking of Armenian Subjects, 1896-1908

Lily Cho, York University: Quiet Violence: Photography and Chinese Exclusion

Juan Carlos Mazariegos, Columbia University: A Death Squad Dossier: Undoing Political Recognizability Kylie Thomas, University College Cork: Photography – Apartheid – Erasure

The presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion.

Call for book chapter proposals: Virtual Photography (Leiden University, 2024)

Leiden University
Deadline: Jun 15, 2023 Ali Shobeiri

Call for book chapter proposals: Virtual Photography.

Over the past two decades, the medium of photography has repeatedly skipped its hasty demise (Mitchell, 1995) by readily adapting to its rapid technological transformations (Manovich, 1996; Rosler, 2004; Leister, 2013). Seemingly disinterested in prefixes such as “post-” (Batchen, 2000; Fontcuberta, 2015), “after” (Ritchin, 2009), or “non-” (Laurelle, 2011), photography has outlived its indexical past and ushered its way into the dematerialized, cybernetic, and algorithmic era. While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or expressing an internal feeling, photography is now capable of actualizing never-existed pasts and never-lived experiences. Thanks to the latest photographic technologies, we can now take/make photographs in computer games, interpolate them in virtual reality platforms, or synthesise them via artificial intelligence. While some see such epistemological shifts as the creation of a “new visual regime” (Rubenstein, Golding & Fisher, 2013), others view them as the promise of yet-to-come subjectivities (Bate, 2014). It is no longer a question whether photography is an “expanded field” (Baker, 2005) or still “expanding form” (Plummer, 2015), but to which direction it is transmuting post-haste.

Presently, the most ubiquitous and contentious threads of such photographic expansions are: Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality, and In-game Photography. Owing to the photographic features of popular video games such as Second Life, Skyrim, Fall Out 3, and The Last of Us, the (non)diegetic (Galloway, 2006), remediative (Rizov, 2021), affective (Möring & De Mutiis, 2019), aesthetic (Tavinor, 2010), isometric (Poremba, 2007), and cybernetic (Moore, 2022) features of in-game photography have been discussed. Yet, due to the rapid transformation of video game industry itself, in-game photography is continually generating new aesthetics and modalities, such as: screencast and screenshot photography (Gerling, Möring, & De Mutiis, 2023).

While the ontological implication of in-game photography is still an ongoing debate, the socio-cultural and ethico-political ramifications of AI imagery are yet to be explored. Because of the rapid popularization of the AI platforms such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion over the past couple of years, Boris Eldagsen’s AI generated image, called “the electrician”, has become the first AI image to win the Sony World Photography Award in 2023: the prize he refused to accept, thus putting into question the artistic legitimacy of AI photography as a medium. Obviously, not only AI photography necessitates a call for digital authorship and documentary veracity (DFA, 2023), but it also demands us to reformulate new ways of thinking about collectivity and individuality. Slowly but steadily, photography is also becoming part and parcel of Extended Reality platforms, consisting of: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Cross Reality. While Extended Reality photography became mainstream via IKEA’s 3D rendered images of furniture pieces in 2008, new features of ER photography are now being used in ecological psychology (Boffi et al. 2022), design and modelling (Hedman, 2020), and memory studies (Juan et al. 2022).

Whether we subsume such images under the category of the “technical image” (Flusser, 1985), the “operational image” (Parikka, 2023), the “poor image” (Steyerl, 2009), the “algorithmic image” (Rubenstein, 2013), or the “soft image” (Hoelzl & Marie, 2015), all such images retain and convey a photographic “function” (Zylinska, 2022). To cohesively account for the most recent photographic practices and technologies, our book proposes the term Virtual Photography as a binding theoretical and methodological framework. Although the term “virtual photography” has so far been loosely applied only to in-game photography, our book aims to consider any photographic practice that has a “virtual” core as Virtual Photography.

As some major thinkers of the 20th century have shown, the term “virtual” is a vexed concept for its definition is inherently contingent upon other concepts (Virilio, 1994; Baudrillard, 1995; Levy, 1998; Quéau, 1998). For example, while virtual can be seen as an “ideal” (Berthier, 2004) or non-materialized real (Shield, 2003), it can also refer to the “realm of affect” (O’Sullivan, 2001) or “potential” (Massumi, 1995). Yet, as Gilles Deleuze has postulated, the virtual is neither opposed to the real nor to the possible, but to the actual. As such, in Deleuze’s words: “The possible is opposed to the real; the process undergone by the possible is therefore a ‘realisation’. By contrast, the virtual is not opposed to the real; it possesses a full reality by itself. The process it undergoes is that of actualisation” (1994, 211).

This is, according to Grant Tavinor, the first misstep in understanding the virtual: that we lay too much emphasis on the distinction between the virtual and the real, whereas something virtual can be fully real (2022). Following this thought, a virtual x is almost or nearly an x, but not actually so: “virtual retains the efficiency or function of a real x, while manifesting these in an unfamiliar or non-customary form” (25). Virtual Photography, too, follows a similar logic: it refers to a photography that retains the efficiency or function of real (camera-based) photography while manifesting these in an unfamiliar or non-customary form. In other words, we would like to think of virtual photographs as real photographs undergoing actualization.

Thus, by pivoting around the concept of “virtual” and via the medium of photography, our book project inquires:
What are the ontological and epistemological modalities of virtual photography in contemporary cultures and how can they enable us to conceive memory, identity, and subjectivity anew?

To this end, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary abstracts that reflect on the topic of Virtual Photography via the most recent photographic practices and technologies, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality, and In-game photography.

The proposed topics may include, but are not limited to:

Photography &
– Virtuality
– Actuality
– Artificial Intelligence
– AI creative freedom & copyright
– Deep learning
– Synthetic image
– Poor image
– Operational image
– Soft image
– Algorithmic image
– In-game photography
– Screenshot, Screencast, Screen image
– Virtual reality technologies
– Augmented reality
– Mixed & Cross reality
– Photogrammetry
– CGI
– Remediation
– Expanded field & expanding form
– 3D imaging
– Phasmagraphy
– Cybernetics
– Virtual memory & virtual time
– Phenomenology of the virtual

Abstracts:
We welcome English abstracts of 200-250 words that engage with, and reflect on, the theme of Virtual Photography through the most recent photographic practices and technologies, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality, and In-game photography.

Please send your abstract & a short biography to the following Email addresses no later than June 15th, 2023:
s.a.shobeiri@hum.leidenuniv.nl
h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl

A selected number of abstracts will be invited to submit a full chapter of 3,000 to 6,000 words.

Schedules & Deadlines:
Submitting the abstract: June 15th, 2023
Communication of acceptance/rejection: June 30th, 2023
Submitting the full chapter: December 1st, 2023
Provisional date for publishing the book: Mid-2024

“Virtual Photography” will be published full open access at an academic publisher in 2024.

Co-editors:
-Dr. Ali Shobeiri, Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture, Leiden University
-Dr. Helen Westgeest, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theories of Photography, Leiden University

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– Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton (London: Athlone, 1994).
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– Gerling, Winfried, Sebastian Möring & Marco De Mutiis, eds. Screen Images: Screenshot, Screencast, In-game Photography (Berlin: Kadmos Verlag, 2023).
– Hedman, Peter. “Viewpoint-Free Photography for Virtual Reality”. In Real VR: Immersive Digital Reality, edited by M. Magnor & A. Sorkine-Hornung. pp. 132-166 (Online: Springer, 2020).
– Hoelzl, Ingrid & Remi Marie. Soft Image: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
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– Poremba, Cindy. “Point and Shoot: Remediating Photography in Gamespace”. Games and Culture. Vol. 2. No. 1. (2007): 49-58.
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Reference:
CFP: Call for book chapter proposals: Virtual Photography (2024). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 23, 2023 (accessed Apr 24, 2023), <https://arthist.net/archive/39079>.

CFP V Jornadas sobre Investigación en Historia de la Fotografía. 1839-1939: Un siglo de fotografía – Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza (25-27 de octubre 2023)

Presentamos el cartel, «call for papers» y programa provisional de las V Jornadas sobre Investigación en Historia de la Fotografía. 1839-1939: Un siglo de fotografía, organizadas por la Institución Fernando el Católico y que celebraremos los próximos 25 a 27 de octubre en Zaragoza.

Programa provisional y «call for papers» de las V Jornadas: http://fotoaragon.cesar.unizar.es/?p=3219

La scadenza per l’invio delle proposte è il 15 giugno 2023.

CONF From Biennale to biennials. The impossible desire (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia/online, 26-28 Apr 23)

“From Biennale to biennials. The impossible desire / Dalla Biennale alle biennali. Il desiderio impossibile”.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Aula Magna “Silvio Trentin”, Ca’ Dolfin) and online (see below), April 26th – 28th 2023.

This international conference is organized by the Department of Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the International Research Platform Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s) – MoDe(s) and the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA) of Grenoble Alpes University.

https://arthist.net/archive/39083

CFP Photography’s Frameworks (online, 12-14 Oct 23)

Symposium on “Photography’s Frameworks”, online, October 12th-14th, 2023.

Photography Network’s third annual symposium will be held virtually and hosted jointly with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. In honor of the UWC’s New Archival Visions Programme – an initiative to activate the university’s archival holdings through research, fellowships, and curatorial projects – this symposium considers the subject of frameworks in the study of photography.

https://arthist.net/archive/39082

Photography and Resistance: The Developing Room’s 7th Graduate Student Colloquium – Rutgers University, April 27, 2023

Yinka Shonibare, from Diary of a Victorian Dandy, 1998

The Developing Room, a working group at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, announces its seventh graduate student colloquium. The event is for Ph.D. students from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography—its histories and theories—plays a central role. This year we particularly encourage contributions on the subject of photography and resistance writ large.

Aerial Spatial Revolution in architecture and urbanism – Online symposium, Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura, 21 maggio 2022

Online, May 21, 2022

Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura

Aerial Spatial Revolution in architecture and urbanism. Online Symposium

Organized by Matteo Vegetti and Christoph Frank

Through interdisciplinary approach, the symposium explores the influence of the conquest of the air – from the first flight experiences to contemporary satellites – on the way of thinking, designing and practising space.

H 9.00-12.30
Welcome address:
Walter Angonese – Academy of Architecture (USI), director
Silvio Seno – DACD (SUPSI), director

Introduction:
Matteo Vegetti (SUPSI, USI)
Christoph Frank (USI–ISA)

Moderator:
Tommaso Morawski – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Speakers:
Marco Solinas – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
Raumrevolution. On the first planetary spatial revolution

Mark Dorrian – Edinburgh College of Art
Around the new vision

Natalie Roseau – École des Ponts ParisTech
The aerial thought of the large city. Subjectivities of the gaze and the unthinking of anthropization

Marco Rasch – Saxonia-Freiberg-Stiftung
The influence of the photographic birds-eye view on german urbanism

Christoph Frank – Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, USI–ISA
Seen from above, seen from below: towards an iconography of aerial destruction

Respondent:
Emmanuel Alloa – University of Fribourg

H 16.00-19.00
Speakers:
Sebastian Grevsmühl – EHEES-CRH, Paris
From spaceship earth to infrastructures of survival: a historical genealogy of a new scopic regime

Dario Negueruela del Castillo – University of Zurich
The reverse gaze of satellite exploration. The reconstituted face of the earth

Jennifer K. Levasseur – Department of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
An astronaut-eye view of changing urban development

Niccolò Cuppini – SUPSI–DEASS, Lugano
Air as infrastructure. On amazon urbanism

Lisa Parks – University of California, Santa Barbara
Vertical mediation and the current war in yemen

Caren Kaplan – University of California, Davis
Out of the blue: no-fly zones and atmospheric politics

Respondent:
Tristan Weddigen – Director of Bibliotheca Hertziana, University of Zurich

More information and link to the symposium: https://www.arc.usi.ch/en/feeds/12499

Guerra in Ucraina, fotografo russo (Alexander Gronsky) “cancellato” dalla mostra di Reggio Emilia e arrestato a Mosca: “Capisco chi esclude l’arte”

La sua foto del Cremlino scattata dietro le sbarre del blindato della polizia russa dove stava con altri manifestanti arrestati, il 27 febbraio

Michele Smargiassi, la Repubblica Bologna, 3 marzo 2022

https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/03/03/news/guerra_in_ucraina_fotografo_russo_escluso_dalla_mostra_di_reggio_emilia_e_arrestato_a_mosca_capisco_chi_esclude_larte-340049400/

Fotografía y exposición. Saberes cruzados – Fundación MAPFRE

https://kbr.fundacionmapfre.org/actividades/saberes-cruzados/

Desde su invención, la fotografía ha ido de la mano de la posibilidad de ser expuesta, presentada como objeto de valor artístico autónomo. De forma paralela, ha desempeñado un rol igualmente relevante como recurso expositivo a través de la reproducción de obras y archivos, así como en su vertiente escenográfica.

Los vínculos entre fotografía y exposición son objeto de creciente interés en las últimas cuatro décadas. Articulado a través de un enfoque cruzado entre los saberes historiográficos, teóricos y curatoriales, el ciclo se propone ahondar en la compleja imbricación que se ha desarrollado entre la fotografía, sus historias y sus teorías, con relación al ámbito expositivo, así como a las incógnitas que se abren en el futuro próximo respecto de su reconfiguración como espacio esencial de encuentro colectivo.

El ciclo se desarrollará íntegramente online todos los martes de marzo y abril. Bajo la dirección de Marta Dahó, contará con la participación de: Olivier Lugon, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Jordana Mendelson, Jorge Ribalta, Florian Ebner, Laura González Flores, Nicoletta Leonardi y Elvira Dyangani Ose.