16th & 17th June 2015, University of Lincoln, UK

Historians, curators and photographic practitioners have begun to re-examine older forms of photography, yet many cultural studies of nineteenth-century photography have been overly reliant upon twentieth-century theoretical constructions.

This multidisciplinary conference will move away from these models, exploring issues such as early photographic ‘authorship’, traditional technological narratives, and the ideologies of photographic realism.

Keynote Speakers:

– Professor Kate Flint (University of Southern California)

– Professor Lindsay Smith (The Sussex Centre for the Visual, University of Sussex)

– Dr. Kelley Wilder (Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University)

– Professor Larry Schaaf (Director of the William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Conference Programme and registration: http://www.rethinkingphotography.com/

image by NALIS Foundation