CONF 21.11.2018

Photography, with or without capitalism (Paris, 18-19 Dec 18)

Paris, INHA, Salle Vasari, 18.–19.12.2018

Blanc Guilaume & Dahmani Taous

Under the scientific responsibility of
Michel Poivert, Guillaume Blanc and Taous R. Dahmani
(Panthéon-Sorbonne University / Paris 1)

Organised by
Guillaume Blanc and Taous R. Dahmani

What ?
International Symposium

When?
18-19 dec. 2018

Where?
INHA
2 Rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
salle Vasari (1st floor)

Programme:

Tuesday 18 December

9h Morning coffee & Speakers reception

9h30-10h Welcome speech
Taous R. Dahmani & Guillaume Blanc

10h-11h Opening Keynote Address

Steve Edwards - University of London (Birkbeck College)
"Making a Case: Daguerreotypes in Britain"

11h-11h30 Coffee break

11h30-12h30 Photography as commodity

- Estelle Blaschke – Université de Lausanne (Centre des Sciences Historiques de la culture)
"Augmented photography as commodity"
- Amandine Gabriac – Université Paris-Diderot (Identités, Cultures, Territoires)
"Inventors of photography and their inventions in the 19th century : altruistic geniuses or ordinary capitalist ? (1839-1901)"

12h30-14h00 Lunch

14h00-15h00 Professions and industry

- Nicolas Le Guern – Independent researcher (formerly De Montfort University, Photographic History Research Centre)
"Photography and industrial investment in the twentieth century: the scientific collaboration between Mannes, Godowsky and Eastman Kodak."
- Éléonore Challine – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Histoire culturelle et sociale des arts)
"Imaginaires et réalités de l'industrie photographique en France (1868-1905)"

15h00-15h30 Coffee break

15h30-16h30 Critical potentials of an iconography

- Édouard Arnoldy – Université de Lille (Centre d’Etude des Arts Contemporains)
"Le chiffonnier, les « médias photographiques » et la Théorie Critique"
- Jeroen Verbeeck – KU Leuven (Art History Department)
"A World of Wealth Without Workers: Work as a negative presence in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story (1989-1995)"

16h30-17h30 Anti-capitalist practices and uses

- Mathilde Bertrand – Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (Cultures, Langues et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones).
“Existe-t-il une pratique photographique alternative ?” Formes et pratiques d’une photographie anticapitaliste en Grande-Bretagne dans les années 1970s"
- Maxime Boidy – Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (Littératures Savoirs et Arts)
"La photographie sans le spectacle. Retournements visuels dans la critique situationniste"

17h30-18h30 First day panel discussion

Wednesday 19 December

9h Morning coffee & Speakers Reception

9h30-11h00 Ambiguous attitudes and practices

- Clément Paradis – Université de Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne (Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Expression Contemporaine)
"Félix Thiollier, photographe du libéralisme : un renversement des axes politiques de la représentation"
- Lucy Mounfield – University of Nottingham (Department of History of Art)
"Blurred Lines: Amateur Photography, Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption"
- Rowan Lear – University of West London (London School of Film, Media and Design)
"Does Not Stain The Fingers: Photographing as Fingerwork and Feminised Labour"

11h00-11h30 Coffee break

11h30-13h00 Aesthetics and counter-aesthetics of capital

- Ulrike Lune Riboni – Université Paris 8 (Centre d'Étude sur les Médias, les Technologies et l'Internationalisation)
"Images pauvres, images des pauvres ?"
- Gail Day – University of Leeds (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies)
"Aesthetics & Counter-aesthetics in Allan Sekula’s TITANIC’s wake"
- Paul-Louis Roubert – Université Paris 8 (Laboratoire Arts des images et art contemporain)
"Mélancolies photographiques"

13h00-14h30 Lunch break

14h30-16h00 At the margins of capitalism ?

- Chris Balaschak - Flagler College (School of Creative Arts and Letters, Visual and Performing Arts)
"Advocacy and Non-Iconicity in Robert Van Lierop’s “Mozambique Portfolio” (1972-76)"
- Julie Bonzon – University College London (History of Art Department).
"Towards new photographic narratives? Showcasing the work of three young South African photographers: Musa Nxumalo, Lebohang Kganye and Phumzile Khanyile"
- Aurélie Journée-Duez – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale)
"Esthétique anti-capitaliste et perspective décoloniale aux Etats-Unis- Une critique du commerce des images de l'exotisme par l'artiste autochtone Zig Jackson"

16h00-16h30 Coffee break

16h30 – 17h30 Second day panel discussion and conclusion

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Photography, with or without capitalism (Paris, 18-19 Dec 18). In: ArtHist.net, 21.11.2018. Letzter Zugriff 19.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/19594>.

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