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Closing for Photography Stories at Fotografiska
On April 25th at 18:00-19:30, we will conclude the lecture series with a final conversation and discussion about the lecture series, photo history, and photo-historical research at Fotografiska in Stockholm.
A new historical overview of the history of photography in Sweden is now available. The book Photography Stories consists of 32 shorter and longer articles written by 16 different writers, spanning from the early 1800s’ first photographic experiments to today’s digital interfaces. Based on the book, a lecture series with 23 lectures by various chapter authors has taken place during the autumn/winter/spring of 2022-23.
Photographs have been used in parallel in a variety of ways since the early 1800s. At the same time, there are certain emblematic areas of use in each period. During the second half of the 1800s, for example, photography was used in a number of new sciences where the camera became the objective measuring instrument sought. At the same time, photography became a mass-produced commodity for the first time when portraits of royalty and other celebrities flooded Europe from the 1860s onwards. During the early 1900s, photography became an explicit art form, and a couple of decades into the 1900s, photography began to be used in earnest in news reporting, fashion, and advertising. Such periodic shifts with different, so to speak, photographic focal points are the organizing principle for the book as well as the lecture series.
All these historical events are as much an effect of technological advances as they are of economic, societal, and ideological contexts, and this lecture series includes not only a wide selection of photographers and image types but also the various actors and institutions that have shaped the histories of photography in Sweden.
The title of the book and lecture series reflects the pluralism of photo history. There is not one photo history in a definite form, but several parallel histories. The book’s title also emphasizes that behind every image there is a story – about techniques, photographers, image practices, and different eras’ perceptions of what an image is.
On April 25th at 18:00-19:30, we will conclude the lecture series with a final conversation and discussion about the lecture series, photo history, and photo-historical research at Fotografiska in Stockholm. The panel discussion can also be followed on Zoom:
https://folkuniversitetet-se.zoom.us/j/98876533593.
If you want to participate at Fotografiska, and are not a member of the Fotografiska family, we have a small number of audience seats to offer. Contact: mikael.cronwall@folkuniversitetet.se no later than April 19 if you wish to attend at Fotografiska.
Participants in the conversation are four of the book’s authors: Anna Näslund Dahlgren, professor of art history at Stockholm University, Niclas Östlind, PhD in photography and senior lecturer at HDK-Valand Gothenburg University, Anna Tellgren, PhD and curator of photography at Moderna Museet, and Marta Edling, professor of art history at Södertörn University and associate professor at Uppsala University.
More info via www.fotoskolansthlm.se
The lecture series is produced in collaboration between Anna Näslund Dahlgren, the book’s editor, and Mikael Cronwall, Fotoskolan STHLM. The lectures are organized by Fotoskolan STHLM with generous support from the Folkuniversitetsföreningen and participation from Centrum för Fotografi – CFF. The panel discussion takes place in collaboration with Fotografiska.
