Research Seminar to be given by Professor Michael Carrithers, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Here I regard photographing, alongside mapping and graphing, as material processes – interpreting ‘material’ widely to include skills, algorithms, protocols and routine social relations as well as technical apparatus – which people in the public sphere use to persuade others of an interpretation of a collective situation. In this case I am concerned with the interpretation of East Germany within the German public sphere as a whole.
I’m interested from a photography and representation point of view, obviously, but also because one way or another, I’ve spent a lot of time in the former GDR, and always struck by how the American anti-Communist polemic pervades, even today, our perceptions of life as they say, “under Communism”. That very phrase implies the boot.
Wish I could make it. Let’s please have a review, if you do go along.
DCAP seminar this evening
Durham Centre for Advanced Photography launches its seminar series this evening. I love all this stuff:
I’m interested from a photography and representation point of view, obviously, but also because one way or another, I’ve spent a lot of time in the former GDR, and always struck by how the American anti-Communist polemic pervades, even today, our perceptions of life as they say, “under Communism”. That very phrase implies the boot.
Wish I could make it. Let’s please have a review, if you do go along.
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