Date
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**Note Special Time**
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm BST
Presenters: Catlin Langford 
Talk Title: Autochromes and Representation
Please refer to the resource section for reading material. 
In this session, we will consider ideas around autochromes and representation. We will look at means of representing the unique materiality of autochromes, as well as questions around the representation and exploration of the process through the lens of colonialism, imperialism, and ethics, reflecting on accessibility, exposure, interpretation, and learning. We will initially reference the V&A’s collection of over 2,500 autochromes, noting recent activities to explore, catalogue, publish and exhibit this collection, before moving to the collections of the National Geographic and Albert- Kahn Museum, the latter having recently reopened in Paris following extensive renovations.    
 
Target audience: Newcomers to the research on color photography circa 1900, PhD students, curators, conservators, established researchers.
 
Reading material:
Doug Peterson, ‘Preserving the National Geographic Society’s Autochrome Collection’, Digital Transitions Heritage, 11 March 2019, https://heritage-digitaltransitions.com/preserving-the-national-geographic-societys-autochrome-collection/
 
Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen and Milena Nikolova, ‘The Kahn Archive: A Visual Memory That Is Truly Comopolitan?’, in Cosmopolitics of the Camera: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet, Intellect, 2020 (pages: 155-77) https://nordopen.nord.no/nord-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2688900/Jakobsen.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
Suggested further reading:
Brian Hochman, Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology, University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
 
Please note that the reading material "Colour Mania" written by Catlin Langford has been posted for the purpose of study and should not be transmitted to third parties without the consent of the author.