Since the late nineteenth century, with Jacob Rijs and Lewis Hine as many others from all over the world, photography has been a medium for denouncing injustice, claiming for better life means and helping revolutionary causes. As a natural consequence of its documental nature it became the privileged medium for contemporary art that aim to challenge political and social establishment.
This conference will explore photographic creation as a social and leftist weapon and its publics all along the twentieth and twentieth-first century. It aims to examine the relationship between documentary photography, human causes and social ideals, class and political commitment, social and economical criticism. It will consider photographic practices and their production of both publics and politics, thinking specifically about the relationship between Leftist practices and the mainstream, but also on the relationship between contemporary art and social criticism, as well as art and propaganda. It will be accompanied by a film projection program at the Museum of Chiado – Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, the site where the conference will take place on 16 and 17 June 2016.
The film
projection program can be seen at the MNAC till 16 of July. ( See http://www.museuartecontemporanea.pt/en/programacao/texto/472 )
International Conference
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LEFT
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado
16-17 June 2016
PROGRAM*
Day 1 Thursday 16th June
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9:30 |
Registration |
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10:00 |
Welcome and Opening Session |
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10:15-11:00 |
Film Screening: Transmission from the liberated zone (2015, 30 min.) followed by discussion with Keynote Speaker Filipa César (artist/filmmaker) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 – 13:00 |
Paper Sessions |
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Panel 1 HISTORY, PROPANDA AND POLITICAL IMAGES Chaired by Teresa Flores |
Panel 2 THE WORKERS AND THE LEFT Chaired by Susana Lourenço Marques |
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Caught in the Act: Justice, Illusion, and Photography on the Victorian Stage Daniel A. Novak, University of Mississippi
Giuseppe Garibaldi, national hero and symbol of the left: creation of his myth through his photographic portraits Annalea Tunesi, University of Leeds, UK
Progresso, anticlericalismo e modéstia Nuno Pinheiro, Researcher for CIES/IUL
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Une révolte aux sels d’argent. Idéologie de gauche et renouvellement esthétique au sein des photo-clubs français (1945-1975) Guillaume Blanc, Université Paris 1
O 1º de Maio de 1974 n’O Século Ilustrado – uma narrativa imagética. Ana Catarina Caldeira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Deslocamentos conceituais da fotografia documental e da representação do proletariado Ludimilla Carvalho Wanderlei & José Afonso da Silva Junior PPGCOM – UFPE, Brasil |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30 – 16:00 |
Paper Sessions |
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Panel 3 DOCUMENTARY ISSUES: REVISIONS AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES Chaired by Paulo Catrica |
Panel 4 VISUAL FACTS AND MATTERS Chaired by Patricia Leal
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Reinventing Documentary (Again) Some Notes on the Pragmatism of Photography Jan Babnik - editor in chief of Membrana
Between the Gallery and the Street: the 1980s 'New Documentary' Movement Andreia Alves de Oliveira: (CREAM), University of Westminster, London
Photography, Irreality and the Document Miguel Faleiro, investigador independente |
We don’t need a gallery to put these pictures in our head, Louie Palu’s Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt Siobhan Angus, University, Toronto
No limite da representação: entre a informação e a arte Sandra Maria Lúcia Pereira Gonçalves Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – Brasil.
Ideology of Negative Witold Kanicki, University of Arts in Poznan (Poland)
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30 – 17:30 |
Keynote Speaker Steve Edwards The Open University, UK |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
Final Discussions |
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