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Guest lecture by Dr Marine Cabos-Brullé

Dr Marine Cabos-Brullé holds guest lecture on “Photography in China and its Histories”

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 26 April 2022,  at 10:00 - 12:00

Location

Building 1483-444

Today in China, photography is playing an increasing important role locally. This is particularly noticeable in the flourishing market, the burgeoning of photography festivals, specialised institutions and publishers, which have endeavoured to support the production of photography. From an international perspective, numerous scholarly research, exhibitions and special media coverage testify to the growing interest in photographs of China in recent years. This appetite for photographs is accompanied by a desire to re-collect China’s past, due to the dramatic loss of artefacts after over a hundred years of political and social turmoil.

This lecture will explore the changing practices and multiples trajectories that have moulded photography in China. We will examine the reception of photographs in contemporary China, while shedding light on early developments. The lecture will offer insight into how a great variety of players have shaped and reshaped almost two centuries of Chinese visual culture.

Curriculum vitae.