Ecologies of Photography: Materials, Industries, and Environment in the American West. The conference takes place in person only and attendants are kindly asked to register via the following link:
https://huntington.org/ecologies-photography.

Conference Schedule

Friday, March 1
9 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
9:30 a.m. | Welcome & Remarks
• Susan Juster (The Huntington Library)
• Monica Bravo (Princeton University) and Carolin Görgen (Sorbonne Université)

10 a.m. | Session 1: Past Made Present
• Moderator: James A. Ganz (Getty Museum)
• Martha “Marni” A. Sandweiss (Princeton University)
“How New is the New History of Western Photography?”
• Elizabeth Hutchinson (Barnard College, Columbia University)
“Shooting in the Ice: Photographs from Arctic Revenue Cutters in the Late Nineteenth Century”
• Binh Danh (San Jose State University)
“Self Landing: Daguerreotypes on the Western Landscape”

Noon | Lunch

1:30 p.m. | Session 2: Extraction of Materials and Labor
• Moderator: Linde Lehtinen (The Huntington)
• Katherine “Kappy” Mintie (Yale University)
“Missing the Forest for the Trees: Pulp, Pollution, and Landscape Photography in the Pacific Northwest”
• Alan C. Braddock (William & Mary)
“Looking at Cows / Reanimating Gelatin: The Biopolitics of Photographic Emulsion”

3 p.m. | Break

3:30 p.m. | Viewing Session (speakers only)

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Saturday, March 2
9 a.m. | Registration and Coffee

9:30 a.m. | Session 3: Native Sovereignty
• Moderator: Monica Bravo (Princeton University)
• Jordan Reznick (Grinnell College)
“Grinding Stone v. Photograph: Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe Ecological Rights and the Malakoff Diggings Case”
• Emily Cornish (University of Michigan)
“Āina and Accession Photography during the Kalākaua Era”
• Cara Romero, Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
“Cara Romero: Inseparable from the Land”

11:30 a.m. | Gallery Session
• Viewing of Cara Romero’s Pasa Robles (2021) in Borderlands exhibition

Noon | Lunch

1:30 p.m. | Session 4: Against the Classical Landscape
• Moderator: Carolin Görgen (Sorbonne Université)
• Christine Hult-Lewis (Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)
“Copper, Gas and Fire: Carleton Watkins’s Subterranean Anaconda Mine Photos”
• Yves Figuereido (Université Paris Cité)
“‘Desert In Sight’: The Contribution of Amateur Photography to the Formulation of Ecological Practices”
• Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)
“Air Tour of Southern California: Aerial Portraits of the American West by Geoscientist John W. Shelton”

3:30 p.m. | Break

3:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks
• Monica Bravo and Carolin Görgen