FOTOSYMPOSIUM DECEMBER 2010
International photography symposium in Gothenburg
This final symposium on photography in 2010, organized as a collaboration between the
School of Photography, University of Gothenburg and the Hasselblad Foundation, covers the
theme of portraiture.
Så här hade vi skrivit på svenska:
Högskolan för fotografi och Hasselbladstiftelsens sista symposium 2010 inriktas mot porträtt
och skildring av människor.
When: Thursday 2 December, 09.00 – 17.00
Where: Tian, University of Gothenburg, Vasaparken, Gothenburg
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee
09.30 – 11.00
Tanya Sheehan, Rutgers University, USA,
"Look pleasant, please! Histories of the Photographic Smile"
Tanya Sheehan is Assistant Professor of American Art and Visual Culture at Rutgers University, USA. Her
forthcoming book, Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (2011) examines
the medical models and metaphors that defined the space of the urban portrait studio. She is also
working on a book that analyzes the prolific references to race in transatlantic photographic humour,
from 1839 to the mid-twentieth century.
11.15 – 12.15
Fröydi Laszlo, MA student, School of Photography, University of Gothenburg
12.15 – 13.30
Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30
Annica Karlsson Rixon, Ph.D. student, School of Photography, University of
Gothenburg
14.30 – 14.45
Coffee
14.45 – 16.15
Geoffrey Batchen
“Even Portraits Will be Made”
Geoffrey Batchen is currently Professor of Art History at Victoria University, New Zealand. He is the
author of numerous books, including Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (1997); Each
Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (2001); and Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance
(2004). Most recently he has published What of Shoes? Van Gogh and Art History and Photography Degree
Zero, an anthology for the MIT Press about Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida: Reflections on
Photography.
16.15 – 17.00
Discussion and questions
Very welcome!
Symposium language: English.
FOTOSYMPOSIUM DECEMBER 2010
Hasselbladstiftelsen
Högskolan för fotografi vid Göteborgs universtitet