This two day international conference examines war photography as the
result of pragmatic and strategic transactions and interactions
concerning business, militarism and consumption. International speakers,
including scholars, curators, picture editors and artists, will address
the ways in which issues of supply and demand have shaped the field of
war photography, and how this field has articulated with other forms of
industrialised and commercial activity.


PROGRAMME

Thursday 31 July (Durham Light Infantry Museum & Durham Art Gallery)

16.00 Welcome
Janet Stewart (Durham University), Director of the Centre for Visual
Arts and Culture

16.20 Panel 1: Contemporary Currencies
CHAIR: David Campbell (Independent, www.david-campbell.org)

Simon Faulkner (Manchester Metropolitan University)
'The Photographic Collective and the Market: The Case of ActiveStills in
Israel/Palestine'

Rhys Crilley (University of Birmingham)
'Like and Share Forces: The British Army, Images and the Clean War
Narrative on Facebook'

Simon Ward (Durham University)
'Archiving Modern Conflict: The Art and Business of Curating War
Photography'

Melanie Friend (Artist, University of Sussex)
'The Home Front: An Introduction to the Exhibition' (Durham Art Gallery,
Gallery One)

Panel discussion

18.30 Drinks reception and opportunity to view the exhibition The Home
Front on display in Gallery One

20.00 Dinner (Zizzi, Durham city centre)


Friday 1 August (Collingwood College, University of Durham)

9.00 Tea and coffee

9.30 Panel 2: Magazines and Photojournalism
CHAIR: tbc

Beth E. Wilson (SUNY College at New Paltz)
'World War II and the Corporate Creation of the Photojournalist'

Yining He (Writer, Curator of Go East Project)
'Insights into Chinese War Photography: Studying Pictorial Magazines of
the Chinese Communist Party'

Lívia Bonadio (Telegraph Magazine)
'Negotiating Conflict Imagery'

Panel discussion

10.50 Tea and coffee


11.20 Panel 3: Professional Photographers & Wartime Markets
CHAIR: tbc

Pippa Oldfield (Durham University)
'From Flowers to Firing Squads: Sara Castrejón's Portrait Studio in the
Mexican Revolution, 1910 – 1920'

Olli Kleemola (University of Turku)
'Finnish War Photographer A. G. Salonen and his Impact on the
Photo-Albums of Finnish Soldiers in the Continuation War 1941–1944'

Anthony Penrose (Lee Miller Archives)
'Lee Miller and British Vogue'

Panel discussion

12.40 Lunch


13.30 Panel 4: Photographic Industries
CHAIR: Hilary Roberts (Research Curator of Photography, Imperial War
Museum)

Colin Harding (National Media Museum, UK)
'How the British Photographic Industry Reacted to the Outbreak of War in
1914'

Patricia A. Nelson (European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm
School of Economics)
'The Impact of War on Photographic Companies in Japan and Germany'

Rachel Snow (University of South Carolina Upstate)
'Photography's Second Front: Kodak's "Serving Human Progress" Campaign'

Panel discussion

14.50 Tea and coffee


15.10 Panel 5: Marketing Images of Destruction
CHAIR: Tom Allbeson (University of Edinburgh)

Sandra Camarda (University of Luxembourg)
'Dreadful like a Postcard: Portraying War and Destruction in Illustrated
Postcards of Luxembourg (1914–1918)'

Jedge Pilbrow (University of Brighton)
'Positioning the Sniper Photograph'

Kevin Hamilton & Ned O'Gorman (University of Illinois)
'The Business of Timing: Lookout Mountain Laboratory, EG&G, and Temporal
Logics of Cold War Photography'

Panel discussion

16.30 Final panel discussion
CHAIR: Janet Stewart (Durham University)

17.15 Close


Locations

Durham Light Infantry Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads
Durham, DH1 5TU
UK

Collingwood College
Durham University
South Road
Durham, DH1 3LT
UK


Full details or programme, speakers and how to register online at
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/news/warphotoconf/

The Business of War Photography is co-convened by Dr. Tom Allbeson and
Pippa Oldfield, Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery and Doctoral
Fellow at Durham University.

The conference is presented in association with the Centre for Visual
Arts and Culture at Durham University, in partnership with Durham Light
Infantry Museum & Durham Art Gallery and Impressions Gallery, Bradford.
Concessionary rates for postgraduate students are supported by a grant
from the Royal Historical Society.