Lecture Series - Speaking of Photography 2011-2012

A Series of Lectures at Concordia University

Speaking of Photography is an ongoing, annual series of public lectures on the history, theory, and practice of photography organized by the Department of Art History. Since 2007-08 we have welcomed photographic scholars from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

We are pleased to announce the 2011-12 lecture series.

Local Space/Global Visions explores the "visual geography" of the year 1900, the moment when amateur cameras, half-tone reproduction processes, and multinational corporations expanded photographic production and distribution exponentially, and quite literally set the stage for a "world culture" of imagery. Shelley Rice's lecture will highlight three separate projects: Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Notes; Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet; and the PhotoGlob AG collection of scenic views. She will show how the image economy of this historical period - with its emphasis on networks, franchises, portability, and outreach, and its inherent tension between the domestic and the international, the artistic and the commercial, the elite and the mass - laid the foundations for our contemporary visual environment.

Shelley Rice is an Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, and Department of Art History, College of Arts and Science, at New York University. She is the author of Parisian Views and Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, and the co-author of numerous books and catalogs, including The Book of 101 Books: The Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century and Paris et le Daguerréotype. Her essays have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice, Tate Papers, French Studies, and Études photographiques, among others. Shelley Rice has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts Awards, a Hasselblad Research Fellowship, and the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay. In 2009 she was named a Chevalier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Speaking of Photography 2011-12 is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor, with additional support from the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; members of the Art History Graduate Student Association; Ciel Variable magazine; and Château Versailles Hotel.

Additional information

Shelley Rice
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Local Space/Global Visions: Archives, Networks, and Visual Geography Around 1900
Friday, 9 March 2012, at 18:30 in EV-1.605

Where:
All lectures in the 2011-12 series are to be held in EV-1.605
York Amphitheatre,
Ground floor of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West
Metro Guy-Concordia

Please note that fall 2011 lectures will be held on Tuesday evenings, and winter 2012 lectures will be held on Friday evenings.

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Past lectures:

Tanya Sheehan
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
National Expressions: Rethinking the History of the Photographic Smile
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 18:30 in EV-1.605

Anthony W. Lee
Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College
A Shoemaker's Story
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, at 18:30 in EV-1.605

Kelly Dennis
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and the History of Photography, University of Connecticut
Digital Proximities: Internet Art and the Economies of Porn
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, at 18:30 in EV-1.605

Deborah Willis
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
Friday, 10 February 2012, at 18:30 in EV-1.605