Photography/Authenticity workshop, 16-17 May, University of Sheffield

Photography/Authenticity workshop, 16-17 May, University of Sheffield

This workshop will position Soviet and Central/East European
photography in the context of broader international debates relating
to the development of the photographic image as a witness to the
twentieth century. The improvement of print technology in the post-war
years positioned photography as a vital and accessible technology of
mass reproduction, yet it remained a marginalised field of artistic
culture. Photography functioned at an intersection of art and
authenticity, associated on the one hand with documentary realism,
naturalistic reportage and amateur practices, and on the other with
the experimental artistic traditions of early Soviet visual culture.

Program:
Day 1: Thurs 16 May - HRI, University of Sheffield

10.15-12pm: Panel 1
Photography and Place
Alla Bolotova, ‘Place-Making, Memory and Photography in Industrialised
Russian North’
Nicolette Macovicky, ‘Photography, Mythology, and ‘Dead Realism’:
Genre Photography in Socialist Poland’
Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, ‘Lithuanian School of Photography´: The
Aesthetics of Authenticity’

1.15-2.45pm: Panel 2
Amateur Practice
Thomas Werner, ‘The Soviet Photo Club, 1960s-70s’
Baiba Tetere, ‘What Was the Relationship between Professional and
Amateur Practices of Photography?’

3.00-4.00pm: Keynote:
Joan Neuberger, ‘Past and Presence: What One Leningrad Shop Window Can
Teach Us about Reading Photographs Historically’

4.30-6.00pm: Special event
Ivan Slezkine, ‘Religious Culture and the Practice of Communism’

Day 2: Fri 17 May – HRI, University of Sheffield

10.00-11.30am: Panel 3
Art and Photography
Amy Bryzgel, ‘Photography in the Work of Miervaldis Polis’
Julia Banwell, ‘Documenting violence through remains: An exploration
of the photography of Teresa Margolles’

11.45-1.15pm: Panel 4
Photography and Function
Margareta Tillberg, ‘Photos of Interaction: Man-Machine in the Journal
Tekhnicheskaia estetika, 1960s-90s’
Oxana Gavrishina, ‘Staged Documentary: Soviet Studio Photographs’

2.15-3.45pm: Round Table
Uses of Photography
James Smith (photographer)
Thomas Werner (curator)
Darcy White (archivist)
Susan Reid (art historian)

All welcome, free places are available. To register, please contact
Oli Johnson: [email protected]

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Dr Oliver Johnson
Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA, UK

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