Overview

Date and time: Tuesday 13 December, 19.00
Location: 7 - 9 William Road, London NW1 3ER

An evening with the journal Photography & Culture.

This talk explores ideas around the photographic excursion and ramble as experienced by photographers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Professor Elizabeth Edwards considers ways in which the relationship between photography and the historical imagination – as a creative dialogue between past and present – were figured through the embodied experience of the photographer walking through the landscape, informed by a heightened awareness of historical topography, and its subsequent translation into photographs.

This talk emerges from an eight-year project by Professor Edwards on amateur photographers and the photographic survey movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Professor Elizabeth Edwards is Director of the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. She has held academic and curatorial posts in Oxford and London and has written extensively on the relations between history, photography and anthropology, and on the material and haptic engagements with photographs.

This year long Writing Photography series aims to investigate different approaches to writing about photography both creatively and academically.

Booking info: Once you have purchased your tickets, please print out your email confirmation, or make a note of your order reference number, and bring it to the talk. You will not be sent tickets.

Concessions: Students, registered unemployed, or those aged over 65, are eligible for concessionary tickets priced £3.50. To claim this discount enter the code TALKS2 when you go to Checkout. You will need to provide proof of your concessionary status when you arrive for the talk.

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