Rhubarb-Rhubarb, a U.K. agency that trains and develops photographers, is hosting a debate on Thursday that will explore what photography is now. The title they’ve chosen for this panel discussion is “Photography Is Dead,” echoing French painter Paul Delaroche, who in 1850 asserted that “from today, painting is dead” because this thing called photography had just been invented. Of course, painting wasn’t and isn’t dead. And neither is photography—it’s just different. But, asks Rhubarb-Rhubarb, how?
“Have technologies opened a world up to non-professionals, that now threaten the industry with sub-standard images and information, or does it simply make photography more democratic? Does technology allow things to be meddled with too easily, or has technology given us more tools to open our minds to all new types of art and so therefore create new realities? Is copyright now completely undermined? Has photography lost its soul?”
Those attending Thursday’s discussion, to be held in Birmingham, England, are asked to bring two questions to the event, which will be chaired by Stephen Mayes, CEO of the VII photo agency, and will feature panelists Alison Nordstrom, curator of photography at George Eastman House; Jon Levy, publisher of Foto8; MaryAnn Camilleri of Magenta Publishing for the Arts; John Cross of Peter Bailey Company photo agency; and photographer Brian Griffin.
The debate is part of a larger event Rhubarb-Rhubarb is mounting called “The International Photographic Review,” a three-day exhibition and portfolio review featuring 40 gallerists, photo publishers, and agents. We’re proud to note that it will include a display of Nadav Kander’s work. “We are in the most fascinating, complex and contradictory time for photography, its makers, and for those who regard it for pleasure or economics,” Rhubarb-Rhubarb creative director Rhonda Wilson said in a press release. “We hope that the program inspires and ignites a passion in those who come and join us.”
Visit Rhubarb-Rhubarb’s site for more details and to buy tickets. A heads up: The organization’s Web developers have not seen fit to assign individual page titles to the content of the site, so you’ll have to go searching around to find the exact spot where the “International Photographic Review” information exists. I’d suggest that they make their next panel discussion on proper Web design, except that in that case, there’s really no debate.
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Photography is dead. Discuss.
Rhubarb-Rhubarb, a U.K. agency that trains and develops photographers, is hosting a debate on Thursday that will explore what photography is now. The title they’ve chosen for this panel discussion is “Photography Is Dead,” echoing French painter Paul Delaroche, who in 1850 asserted that “from today, painting is dead” because this thing called photography had just been invented. Of course, painting wasn’t and isn’t dead. And neither is photography—it’s just different. But, asks Rhubarb-Rhubarb, how?
“Have technologies opened a world up to non-professionals, that now threaten the industry with sub-standard images and information, or does it simply make photography more democratic? Does technology allow things to be meddled with too easily, or has technology given us more tools to open our minds to all new types of art and so therefore create new realities? Is copyright now completely undermined? Has photography lost its soul?”
Those attending Thursday’s discussion, to be held in Birmingham, England, are asked to bring two questions to the event, which will be chaired by Stephen Mayes, CEO of the VII photo agency, and will feature panelists Alison Nordstrom, curator of photography at George Eastman House; Jon Levy, publisher of Foto8; MaryAnn Camilleri of Magenta Publishing for the Arts; John Cross of Peter Bailey Company photo agency; and photographer Brian Griffin.
The debate is part of a larger event Rhubarb-Rhubarb is mounting called “The International Photographic Review,” a three-day exhibition and portfolio review featuring 40 gallerists, photo publishers, and agents. We’re proud to note that it will include a display of Nadav Kander’s work. “We are in the most fascinating, complex and contradictory time for photography, its makers, and for those who regard it for pleasure or economics,” Rhubarb-Rhubarb creative director Rhonda Wilson said in a press release. “We hope that the program inspires and ignites a passion in those who come and join us.”
Visit Rhubarb-Rhubarb’s site for more details and to buy tickets. A heads up: The organization’s Web developers have not seen fit to assign individual page titles to the content of the site, so you’ll have to go searching around to find the exact spot where the “International Photographic Review” information exists. I’d suggest that they make their next panel discussion on proper Web design, except that in that case, there’s really no debate.
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