Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Discovering the work of Female Photographers

ONLINE CONFERENCE
24 October 2020
9am – 4.30pm
Free, book in advance

Let Us Now Praise Famous Women will explore the critical work of women writing about, collecting, and curating photography by women.

Key questions include how women’s voices are heard in the history and criticism of photography, the influence of the feminist movement on women photographers’ careers, and the role of museums in shaping the legacies of women photographers.

The day also foregrounds strategies for emerging photographers to find themselves in a supportive network of ideas and practice.

Convener

Taous Dahmani, University of Oxford

Taous Dahmani is a historian of photography, working between Paris and Oxford. She is a PhD fellow at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University Paris, where she taught 20th century history of photography.

 Speakers

Val Williams, University of the Arts London

Val Williams is Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of the Arts London. She is a coeditor of the Journal of Photography & Culture

Erika Lederman, Victoria and Albert Museum

Erika Lederman is a cataloguer of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is currently pursuing a DPhil at De Montfort University and the V&A, under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Programme.

Jessica Sutcliffe, author

Jessica Sutcliffe is the author of ‘Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer’

Patrizia Di Bello, Birkbeck, University of London

Patrizia Di Bello is Professor of History and Theory of Photography, Birkbeck, and editor in chief of History of Photography.

Deborah Cherry, NYU

Deborah Cherry is an art historian whose publications include ‘Maud Sulter: Passion’ (2015) and the co-edited collection ‘Tracey Emin: Art into Life’ (2020). She teaches contemporary art at New York University.

Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, Firecracker

Fiona Rogers is Director of Photography & Operations at Webber Represents and founder of Firecracker (established in 2011).

Max Houghton is Course Leader, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication.

Anna Fox, Fast Forward

Anna Fox is Professor of Photography at The University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham.

For the full program and the booking info, please go to the direct link.