Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History

Tuesday 16 June 2009 (with registration from 9.00am)
Wednesday 17 June 2009 (with registration from 9.30am)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

This conference will investigate the role of photographic archives and
collections in art historical studies. The discipline of art history and
the technologies image reproduction have developed concurrently and their
own histories are closely interlinked. The first part of the conference
will take place in London, where the focus will be on the role of
photography in shaping art history, with an emphasis on image collections
that were formed "scientifically" - that is with the specific purpose of
aiding research. The second part of the conference will be held in Florence
in the autumn of 2009, where the history, nature, and influence of specific
archives will be discussed.

A second purpose of this conference will be to look strategically at the
management of large photographic collections, using the perspective of
their history to face the challenges of the future.

Speakers include: Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), Mary Bergstein
(Rhode Island School of Design), Pascal Griener (University of Neuchatel,
Switzerland), Venetia Harlow (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Mark
Haworth-Booth (University of the Arts London and Victoria and Albert
Museum), Machtelt Israëls (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for
Italian Renaissance Studies and University of Amsterdam), Ann Jensen Adams
(University of California, Santa Barbara), Geraldine Johnson (History of
Art, University of Oxford), Christine Kuan (ARTstor), Hubert Locher
(Philipps-Universität Marburg), Andrea Mattiello (Independent Art
Historian), Dorothea Peters (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence),
Elisabeth Reissner (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Per Rumberg (The
Courtauld Institute of Art), Graham Smith (University of Saint Andrews,
Scotland), Stuart Whatling (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

To book a place: GBP 15 (GBP 10 concessions) Please send a cheque made
payable to 'Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events
Co-ordinator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, omerset House,
Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the
'Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History conference'. For
credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send
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Organised by Patricia Rubin (Courtauld Institute of Art) in collaboration
with Dr Costanza Caraffa (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)

PROGRAMME

Tuesday 16 June
9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.30 - 9.45 Welcome and Introduction: Patricia Rubin (Courtauld Institute
of Art Research Forum)

9:45 -10:30 Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), \'The Status of the
Surrogate: Reproduction before Photography\'

Session I: Photography, the Arts and the History of Art. Chair: Caroline
Elam (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

10:30 - 11.00 Pascal Griener (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland), \'The
Use of Art History Photograph in France (1860-1910): Symbolical, Cognitive
and Technological Values in Conflict\'

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11.30 - 12.00 Hubert Locher (Philipps-Universität Marburg), \'Hamanns
Choice. The Illustrations of the \"Geschichte der Kunst\" (1933) and the
Relation to the Picture Archive of the Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar in
Marburg\'

12.00 - 12.30 Geraldine Johnson (History of Art, University of Oxford),
\'Renaissance Sculpture and the Visual Historiography of Art History\'

12.30 - 13.00 Discussion

13.00 - 14.00 BREAK FOR LUNCH

14.30 - 15.00 Dorothea Peters (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence),
\'From Prince Albert's Raphael Collection to Giovanni Morelli: Photography
and the Scientific Debates on Raphael in the 19th Century\'

15.00 - 15.30 Venetia Harlow (The Courtauld Institute of Art), \'Dante
Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones: Collectors of Old Master
Photographs\'

15.30 - 16.00 Ann Jensen Adams (University of California, Santa Barbara),
\'The Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie and the Iconographic
Turn in Dutch Art History\'

16.00 - 16.30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16.30 - 17.00 Per Rumberg (The Courtauld Institute of Art),
\'\"Menschenrechte des Auges\": Aby Warburg's Picture Atlas Mnemosyne
Revisited\'

17.00 - 17.30 Machtelt Israëls (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University
Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and University of Amsterdam), \'\"I
would not speak of them to anyone else\": Photographs, the Berensons, and
the Discovery of Sassetta\'

17.30 - 18.30 Discussion

18.30 RECEPTION

Wednesday 17 June

9.30 - 10.00 Registration

Session II: Material, Memory and Archive. Chair: Maria Loh (University
College London)

10.00 - 10.30 Elisabeth Reissner (The Courtauld Institute of Art), \'Image,
Object, Archive\'

10.30 - 11.00 Mark Haworth-Booth (University of the Arts London and
Victoria and Albert Museum), \'Camille Silvy: The Photography of Works of
Art as Record and Restoration\'

11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11.30 - 12.00 Graham Smith (University of Saint Andrews, Scotland), \'The
Alinari Catalogue of April 1856

12.00 - 12.30 Andrea Mattiello (Independent Art Historian), \'Giacomo Boni,
Documenting Architecture Through Photographic Surveys in Post-unification
Italy\'

12.30 - 13.00 Discussion

13.00 - 14.00 BREAK FOR LUNCH

14.00 - 14.30 Mary Bergstein (Rhode Island School of Design), \'Marcel
Proust's Imaginary Museum\'

14.30 - 15.00 Stuart Whatling (The Courtauld Institute of Art),
\'Misshaping the Middle Ages? A Medievalist\'s View of the Digital
Archive\'

15.00 - 15.30 Christine Kuan (ARTstor), 'ARTstor: Archiving Archives -
Digitising and Sharing Photographic Collections Online'

15.30 - 16.00 Discussion

16.00 - 16.30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16.30 - 17.30 Archives in Transition: Planning for the Future
Round table panel on the current and future role of photographic
collections

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