[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: The Ethics of Photography (grad) (9/30/06; 2/11/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Ethics of Photography
A one-day graduate student symposium
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

This one-day graduate student symposium will address the ethics of
making and viewing photographs and the changing conceptions of the
ethical concerns inherent in those practices throughout the history of
the medium.

In 1977, Susan Sontag suggested that, "in teaching a new visual code,
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at
and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more
importantly, an ethics of seeing" (_On Photography_). In the decades
since Sontag?s text, scholars and critics of photography have turned
increasingly to questions of power, intention, and agency in examining
the relation between subject and photographer, between photograph and
viewer. This symposium investigates moral purpose in the history of the
medium and its contemporary practice to evaluate the status of
photography as an ethics of seeing.

We invite interpretations of this theme as 30-minute papers from
graduate students working on all aspects of the arts and humanities.
Cross-disciplinary approaches and comparative studies are particularly
welcome.

Topics may include but are not restricted to:
-The ethics of subjecthood (the person depicted in the photograph)
-Medical and scientific photography
-Debates over reality, truth, and the photograph
-The role of photography in social reform
-Issues and questions raised by technological developments
-Narrative and performativity in portraiture and other practices
-The negotiation of class relations and social positions
-The gap between intention and use
-The rise of ethical codes for professional photographers
-Gender dynamics
-Propaganda, nationalism, and politics
-colonialism, empire, and post-colonial responses
-The role of photography in humanitarian organizations and debates
around photography itself as a humanitarian practice

The program will include discussion sessions with curators, archivists,
and artists. The day will draw to its close with a keynote lecture by
Richard Billingham, whose portraits of his family were collected for the
publication Ray's A Laugh (1996).  Recent work such as Black Country
(2004) examines landscape and memory.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Morna O?Neill,
Research Department, Yale Center for British Art, PO Box 208280, New
Haven, CT 06520-8280, USA  or to morna.oneill at yale.edu by September 30,
2006.

Travel funds for speakers are available upon application.

Support for this symposium has been generously provided by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.



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Morna O'Neill
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Department
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
PO Box 208280
New Haven, CT  06520
USA

tel  203.432.6774
fax  203.432.5946
e-mail  morna.oneill at yale.edu

web site  http://www.yale.edu/ycba

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