 | This is one of Richard Billingham's photographs of his working-class family that appear in the book "Ray's A Laugh." The British photographer will be the keynote speaker at the symposium on "The Ethics of Photography." |
The ethics of both making and viewing photographs will be the focus of a graduate student symposium taking place at Yale on Saturday, Feb. 10.
"The Ethics of Photography" will be held 9 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.
The symposium will explore how the ethical concerns of those who make and those who view photographs have changed throughout the history of the medium, as well as its contemporary practice. Talk topics will include "Photography as Propaganda," "Taking Liberties, Taking Pictures" and "American Images and Icons of War from the Civil War to the Present."
Acclaimed British photographer Richard Billingham will present the keynote address titled "Richard Billingham: Family Photographs 1990-2007."
Billingham has received the Citibank Photography Prize and was nominated for Britain's prestigious Turner Prize in 2001. He initially wanted to become a painter and took a series of family photographs, which he intended to use as source material for his paintings. Those photographs, later published in the book "Ray's A Laugh," document both working class poverty and the relationship between his alcoholic father, his mother and his brother. He was commissioned by Artangel to make the acclaimed film "Fishtank" for BBC2.
His book "Black Country" features landscape photographs of his home in the West Midlands; a forthcoming book, "Landscapes, 2001-2003," will include images from such places as Ethiopia, Greece and Pakistan. More recently, Billingham completed a body of photographs and video work about the psychological effects of captivity on zoo animals. These images will also be published in a new book titled "Zoo."
Other featured speakers at the symposium will include curators, archivists and practicing artists. There will also be open studio sessions with M.F.A. candidates in photography at the Yale School of Art. A complete schedule of talks and speakers can be found at http://ycba.yale.edu/education/pdfs/ethics%20of%20photo.pdf.
While registration for the symposium is recommended, admission to Billingham's lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
For more information or to register, send e-mail to ycba.research@yale.edu or call (203) 432-7192.
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