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SUMMARY:Repetition and Difference: The Dissemination of Photography - Prof
 essor Geoffrey Batchen (Victoria University of Wellington)
DTSTART:20131127T170000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Blair
DESCRIPTION:Geoffrey Batchen's talk will address the effects and implicati
 ons of photography's relationship to reproduction. Among other effects\, p
 hotography's reproducibility allows photographic images to be widely circu
 lated\, but it also gives the same image the capacity to come in many diff
 erent looks\, sizes and formats. It also makes it possible for an image to
  appear in many places at once and to exist simultaneously at many differe
 nt points of time. Equally complicated is the way its capacity for reprodu
 cibility ties photography to the processes and social implications of capi
 talist mass production\, making any study of its effects an unavoidably po
 litical issue. Indeed\, a tracing of photography’s dissemination through
 out modern culture\, as evidenced in particular photographic instances of 
 repetition and difference\, reveals the medium to be fraught with its own 
 divided and multiplied identities. By exploring this one crucial issue\, B
 atchen aims to present a way of thinking about photography that can match 
 the extraordinary complexity of the photographic experience.\n\nProfessor 
 Geoffrey Batchen teaches art history at Victoria University of Wellington 
 in New Zealand\, specializing in the history of photography. His books inc
 lude Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (1997)\, Each Wild
  Idea: Writing\, Photography\, History (2001)\, Forget Me Not: Photography
  and Remembrance (2004)\, William Henry Fox Talbot (2008) and Suspending T
 ime: Life\, Photography\, Death (2010). He has also edited Photography Deg
 ree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida (2009) and co-edit
 ed Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis (2012).
LOCATION:The History of Art Graduate Centre - 4a Trumpington Street
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