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Photography's Afterlives Conference

This conference will bring together artists, photo historians, curators, and theorists of visual culture who will reflect on the afterlives of everyday vernacular images.

5/6/2022
9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Hanover Inn Ballroom
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Conferences

The conference will bring together artists, photo historians, curators, and theorists of visual culture who will reflect on the afterlives of everyday vernacular images.  Speakers will discuss how photography as a practice of everyday life acquires new meanings as images are collected, displayed, and reframed in changing historical and political circumstances. Looking at a variety of photographic genres (portraits and selfies, ID and passport photos, family photos, school pictures, street photos, prison photographs, tourist images and more) from different parts of the world, they will explore the ways in which photography not only documents but actually shapes personal, social and political life.  This comparative discussion across photography’s multiple geographies and histories promises to add to current theoretical inquiries into everyday photographic practices.  Engaging specifically what photos do when they are taken, and what they continue to do as historical and memorial objects, this conference will also reflect on what they could do as media of activism and social transformation.

For more information, contact:
Kelly Palmer
kelly.l.palmer@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-3378
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=66297

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.