Symposium organised by Institut pour la Photographie in co-production with Les Rencontres d'Arles
Two days of interaction with researchers, artists, curators and auctioneers through presentations, conversations, screenings and lectures.
The Institut pour la Photographie brings together institutions, photography agents and photographers to exchange ideas and viewpoints on archive management, its history and its development from analogue to digital.
The second day will be dedicated to the same theme as the research support programme launched by the Institut in 2018: Photography, object of dissemination
The dissemination of photography will be addressed through its visual media: from printing to books and digital tools, from agency sales to shared photography, from postcards to political magazines. Navigating between the material and cultural history of the image, the day's events will analyse the use of photos in film, contemporary art, media and politics. Catarina Boieiro, Aurélien Froment, Audrey Leblanc, Christel Pedersen and Raquel Scheffer are conducting their research with the support of the Institut's Programme.
DAY 1
2.30PM WELCOME
2.45PM INTRODUCTION
Tuesday 2 July
3.00PM ROUND TABLE on the preservation of photo archives In partnership with the review Transbordeur. Photographie. Image. Société.
With SABINE SUSSTRUNK – Professor and Director of the Image and Visual Representation Laboratory (IVRL, IC) and Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI, CdH), EPFL
CLARA BOUVERESSE - Lecturer at the University of Evry
DOMINIQUE VERSAVEL - Head of photography at the Prints and Photography Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and head of the 20th century photography collections
PIERRE CIOT - President of the Society of Authors of Visual Arts and the Still Image (SAIF)
5.15PM PRESENTATION of the project "Cable, copy, code. Photography and Information Technology" by the editorial board of the journal Transbordeur. Photographie. Image. Société.
10.00AM WELCOME
1.00PM
CHRISTEL PEDERSEN
"Greetings from Reykjavik - Disseminated Archives" because the 60s and 70s saw the development of a transnational and anti-institutional network based on the dissemination of documentation and photographs from the Icelandic art scene.
A graduate of the University of Copenhagen and Université Paris 8, Christel Pedersen is an author, translator, researcher and independent curator.
CLÉMENT CHÉROUX
Presentation of the exhibition " Snap Share, transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks", 2019 Senior Curator of Photography at SFMoMA
AURÉLIEN FROMENT
Cinema in the spirit of Pierre Zucca
Here, photos from another era, designed to promote films in the press and outside cinemas, take the place of the films they represent on the big screen at the Théâtre d’Arles.
Aurélien Froment is an artist. He lives in Edinburgh, where he teaches photography at the Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh.
WALTER MOSER
A study of photos on set.
Head of the Photography Department, Albertina, Vienna, Walter Moser curated the "Film Still" exhibition in 2016.
MAGALI NACHTERGAEL AND ANNE REVERSEAU
Postcards, a raw anthropology of images
A look at the ideas and research surrounding the circulating images we all know and love, for a deeper insight into the exhibition «Cartes Postales. Nouvelles d’un monde rêvé» (Postcards. News from a far-off world), which they curated at the Rencontres d'Arles, 2019.
Magali Nachtergael is a lecturer at Université Paris 13 and Anne Reverseau is an NFRS Scientific Researcher at the University of Louvain.
LE ROMAN ALGÉRIEN (THE ALGERIAN NOVEL), Katia Kameli, 2016, 15 mins
SCREENING
This film, crafted as an immersion in Algerian history, through a collection of postcards sold in a street in Algiers, is a fascinating reflection of colonial and post-colonial iconography.
3.00PM AUDREY LEBLANC
Disseminating one's own maps of the world and society: iconographers and televised news programmes (1960- 1986) Photo agencies sold their photos to the former French broadcaster, ORTF. As part of their relationship with ORTF, photo researchers’ contribution to the management of collections helps explain the dissemination - through the material management of images - of a map of the world and its values in the media environment.
Audrey Leblanc is a doctor of the EHESS specialising in history and civilisations. She teaches at the University of Lille and jointly leads a research seminar entitled "Photography, publishing, press: a cultural history of image producers’ at Cehta/EHESS.
ESTELLE BLASCHKE
Towards the augmented image. The automation of photography's information structures. Today, with the digital processing of images, the data itself is as valuable as the photo's visual side, turning the very notion of the image on its head.
Senior FNS researcher, Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne.
CATARINA BOIEIRO
A critical archaeology of images: photography as a tool for disseminating the liberation movement (in Portuguese-speaking African countries).
EVENT
A study of the contemporary use of photos produced in a colonial or anticolonial context - to expose, assemble or deconstruct the images of the past, to give them a "new life" in the face of the Anticolonial Archive.
Catarina Boieiro is a graduate of EHESS, an independent curator and works in programming and production, collaborating with film researcher Raquel Schefer.
VITA NOVA, Vincent Meessen, 2009, 27 mins
SCREENING
Vita Nova reviews an image published on the cover of Paris Match in 1955, showing a child from colonial troupe saluting, which rose to fame after its deconstruction by Roland Barthes in Mythologies (1957).
