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...
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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...
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NGV Public Programs presents Photography Symposium: Stormy Weather Sat 25 Sep, 10am-1.30pm The NGV is holding a a stimulating and informative symposium to mark the opening of the new photography exhibition Stormy Weather. Several of the artists included in the exhibition will present talks in which they discuss their working methods and how the...
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Penny Edmonds & Jane Lydon Date: Wednesday 15 September 6.15pm Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street, Fitzroy, Australia Further information: email: info@ccp.org.au Tel. 61 3 9417 1549 In their papers Penny Edmonds and Jane Lydon will address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and rights through colonial photography and performances. Chaired by Kate Darian-Smith. Penny...
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Dr Isobel Crombie Senior Curator, Photography, NGV The World Turns: Contemporary Asian Photography Thursday 19 August, 2010, 6pm for 6.30pm Presented by The Friends of the Gallery Library, National Gallery of Victoria. Mapping is an essential part of life. We create maps to help locate us geographically but we also construct them to orient...
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The Melbourne Art Foundation 2010 Lecture Bill Henson ‘The Light and the Dark and the Shades of Grey’ BMW Edge, Federation Square Monday 2 August, 6.00pm – 7.30pm Update: If you missed the lecture you can download an abridged version of the talk from Radio National’s Artworks website here – http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2010/2981304.htm Or you can...
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ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY May Mo(u)rn: A Site-Writing Professor Jane Rendell Time: 6.30pm, Thursday June 10th Venue: RMIT 8.11.68 (Building 8, 360 Swanston St. Level 11, lecture theatre 68, to the right of the lifts) May Mo(u)rn is a site-writing which takes a collection of abandoned black and white photographs of modernist architectural icons found...
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SNAPSHOT Contemporary Photography from the La Trobe University Art Collection An exhibition to be opened by Naomi Cass – Director, Centre of Contemporary Photography Tuesday 27 April 2010, 6-8 pm LUMA| La Trobe University Museum of Art RSVP Friday 23 April on 9479 2111 Dr Alana O’Brien, LUMA Curator Phone: 03 9479 2111 Fax:...
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