SPACE: Seminars on Politics, Art, Culture and Entertainment - Two evenings on politics and photography
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Two evenings on politics and photography
This two-part workshop explores the link between politics and photography. It considers how social documentary photographers look at the world and seek to change our understanding of it through images of struggle and solidarity. Drawing on the scholarship of photographic theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag and David Levi Strauss, the workshops explore the images of a number of photographers, including David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, John Thompson, Tina Modotti, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Yousuf Karsh, Matt Heron, Ernest Cole, Susan Meiselas, Sebastião Salgado and Martha Rosler. The first evening looks at the origins of social documentary photography and its golden age between the 1930s and 1960s. The second examines documentary photography’s turn towards and away from postmodernism since the 1960s. A short syllabus will be provided to participants in advance of the first meeting. This event is open to Birkbeck students and Be Birkbeck members and a maximum of 25 places are available on a first come first serve basis.
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Dr Dermot Hodson