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Exhibition | Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier | Centre for Contemporary Photography

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Vivian Maier New York City, September 10, 1955, Gelatin silver print, 30.5 x 30.5cm, Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection, courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Vivian Maier | Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier Dates: 3rd October—26 October 2014 at CCP Australia, 404 George Street Fitzroy Artists: Cherine Fahd, Vivian Maier, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Debra Phillips, Patrick Pound, Clare Rae, Simone Slee, David Wadelton and Kellie Wells. Curated by Naomi Cass, Louise Neri and Karra Rees. During her lifetime, Vivian Maier (1926—2009) produced more than 100,000 photographic images, which remained largely undiscovered until after her death. CCP celebrates this reluctant artist’s timely relevance, juxtaposing her work with contemporary Australian photography, performance and video. Maier’s prolific body of…

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Seminar Series | How to Feel: The Promise of Emotion

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Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Melbourne. Over three sessions this series will consider emotions from a range of disciplines, within the context of the exhibition True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works. The Face (7 August) addresses crying and the expressed face in art and literature. Chair: Penelope Lee, CHE Melbourne Tom Whelan, Australian Catholic University      Stephanie Trigg, CHE, The University of Melbourne Christopher Chapman, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra         Public Space (14 August) presents three diverse…

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Talks | Robert Rooney at CCP

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Robert Rooney Children, Hawthorn East 1 1958, courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. Image via http://www.ccp.org.au/news.php?id=200

Robert Rooney: A Night of Talks As part of the 
Centre for Contemporary Photography’s new exhibition Robert Rooney: The Box Brownie Years 1956-58 CCP is holding a night of talks. Artist Philip Brophy, writer and curator David Homewood and Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts, ANU School of Art, will speak on and around the work of Robert Rooney. Children and adolescents are often seen as ragged kid-flaneurs, re-mapping familiar urban or suburban spaces. Using a diverse range of historical Australian sources, Martin Jolly will explore these secret, under…

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Lectures | CCP 2012 Lecture Series

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Join CCP for the 2012 Lecture Series, surrounded by the exhibition CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things, curated by Kyla McFarlane. Entry by gold coin donation. Hear from internationally renowned artists Richard Billingham (UK) and Anne Noble (NZ); Kim Simon, Curator of Gallery TPW, Toronto and Sandra Barnard (NSW), one of Australia’s formost fine art hand-printers. Thursday 23 August 6pm RICHARD BILLINGHAM (UK) Artist talk UK artist Richard Billingham speaks about his photographic, film and video practice. Richard Billingham graduated from Sunderland University, UK in 1994 with a degree in painting. In 1994,…

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National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum

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National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum 8th - 10th February, 2012 Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) The Forum will present emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photographers and photo-media artists with the opportunity to join key photo-media industry specialists, artists and educators from across Australia. A series of presentations and workshops will run over two and a half days that will enable Indigenous artists and photographers to further develop industry and technical knowledge, whilst networking with artists and curators…

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Symposium ‘Photography as Crime’

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Photography as Crime Free Symposium presented by Monash University and CCP Saturday 15th October, 1–5pm, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy In conjunction with the In camera and in public exhibition, Monash University Art and Design and Centre for Contemporary Photography will host a free symposium on photography, privacy and public space, to be held at CCP. What are the key legal and philosophical issues relating to photography in public places? What pressures are recent changes in the relationship between publicity and privacy putting on the meaning and significance of ‘privacy’, the body and…

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Lecture: George Eastman House: Past, Present, Future

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Le main de Madame Hugo ca. 1853–1854, George Eastman House Collection, Andrew Burford, Taylor 2010

Kodak Salon Lecture George Eastman House: Past, Present, Future Dr Alison Nordström will survey the history of George Eastman House—the oldest museum of its kind in the world—since its opening in 1947. Nordström will address the formation of Eastman House collections and the influence of those collections on our understanding of photographic history. She will discuss the seminal Eastman House exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape (1975). In its day, New Topographics signalled the emergence of a new approach to landscape photography. Finally, Nordström will consider how contemporary artists like…

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Lecture by Victor Burgin ‘Face a Histoire’ (CCP, Melbourne)

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FACE À L’HISTOIRE A Lecture by Victor Burgin Venue: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy (404 George St, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia) Tel. + 61 3 9417 1549 E info@ccp.org.au W www.ccp.org.au Date: Wednesday 16th March, 2011, 6:16pm No bookings. Seats strictly limited. Gold coin donations gratefully accepted. Centre for Contemporary Photography, in association with the ARC-funded research project Genealogies of Digital Light, is pleased to announce a lecture by Victor Burgin. In October 2008 I was invited to join a group of artists and academics in Cyprus to inaugurate the ‘Famagusta…

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Panel Discussion: Is Photography Global?

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Is Photography Global? Panel Discussion at the Centre for Contemporary Photography Date: 6:15pm - Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 What are the relations involved in the global production of photographs? In what ways are new technologies influencing, shaping or impinging on these relations? Does photography have a specific place in globalisation? Are some kinds of photography more global than others? ‘Is Photography Global?’ aims to begin an international conversation among critics, historians and practitioners of photography on global thinking within the discipline. Paul James (Director of the Globalism Institute, RMIT), Natalie…

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Talk - Hidden and in plain view: considering Taryn Simon’s Index

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Hidden and in plain view: considering Taryn Simon’s Index Inspired by rumours of WMDs and secret sites in Iraq, American photographer Taryn Simon decided to address secret sites in her own country. For An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar 2006, Simon photographed hidden places and things within US borders. Her subjects range across realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion. As Australians, what do we make of Simon’s America, are we both intrigued and repelled? While this series has been described as the ‘aesthetic antithesis…

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