HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Focus Sessions, Q&A, & Social Gathering!
In order to kiss 2022 goodbye and to go into the new year filled with optimism, joy, and color photography inspiration, Janine and Hanin have prepared December special just for you! This informal session will be organized as follows:
1. Janine Freeston: "Women Making Color Photographs" (15 + minutes)
Who are the women who produced color photographs? How did they contribute to the nascent trichromatic color photography processes at the turn of the last century? Are there more of them languishing in archives who have yet to be fully appreciated and how scholars uncover it? As the history of photography continues to evolve in its appreciation of women photographers, the substantial significance that women contributors made to color photography requires consolidation, such as Angelina Acland, Agnes Warburg, Violet Blaiklock, Marjory T. Hardcastle and Olive Edis to name a few. This talk highlights women working on unresolved color processes that demanded more technical, scientific and methodological prowess than that required from their counterparts working in monochrome. For example, some processes lacked chromatic fidelity, and yet a cohort of experimenting highly skilled photographers, a significant number of whom were women, persevered to offer numerous nuanced improvements that had evolved through their practical experiences or supplied work that supported the commercial potential that color photography presented.
I hope to appeal to members of this working group to interrogate their own resources and work together in amassing geographical, technical and biographical findings from the locations they are familiar with to provide a cogent and geographically balanced historical perspective highlighting the means and methods of contributions made by women beyond the exhibition of images.
2. Looking backwards/looking forwards: 2023 schedule aka what we have in store for you! (10 minutes)
3. For you
The rest of our time together during this session will be spent socializing, asking questions, discussing in break-out rooms in a relaxed setting whilst Hanin tells her jokes. Why? Because we would love to get to know each and every one of you better and continue building our color photography community. This has been an beautiful journey for us and we are thrilled to be heading to 2023 together with you. Feel free to invite your friends and colleagues to join. Pets are also welcome. We love seeing them on camera!
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Target audience: Gender Studies, History of Science, History of Physics, Group Members, Interested Parties.
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