Washington University photo lecture: Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography
Wednesday, September 7
6pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture
Steinberg Auditorium, Washington University
The art-historical study of photography has typically focused on photographs that were published or exhibited in their contemporary moment. This focus has largely excluded private, underground, and subcultural materials as well as vast expanses of photography produced outside the context of the professional art world. By attending to the amateur photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) and to pictures that were little known or shown at the time of their making, this talk, from art historian Richard Meyer, argues for an alternative approach to the history of photography.
Wednesday, September 7
6pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture
Steinberg Auditorium, Washington University
The art-historical study of photography has typically focused on photographs that were published or exhibited in their contemporary moment. This focus has largely excluded private, underground, and subcultural materials as well as vast expanses of photography produced outside the context of the professional art world. By attending to the amateur photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) and to pictures that were little known or shown at the time of their making, this talk, from art historian Richard Meyer, argues for an alternative approach to the history of photography.
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