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March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23


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This image of dead American infantrymen who fell at Agua Preita in Mexico is part of the Beinecke Library's collection of photos related to U.S. military involvement in the Mexican Revolution.



The relationship between photography, history and memory examined in student conference

In her essay “On Photography,” writer and filmmaker Susan Sontag writes, “A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture.”

The relationship between image, history and memory will be explored at a graduate student conference titled “Photographic Proofs,” to be held Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, at Yale.

The event is a joint effort between the Photographic Memory Workshop and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Established nine years ago, the workshop brings together faculty, students and staff in an effort to foster cross-disciplinary conversation about the relationship between photography and individual and collective memory.

The conference will include an archival workshop, opening and closing keynote addresses and four faculty-moderated graduate student panels. The speakers represent a range of disciplines — from African-American and American studies, to art, English, history, theater and performance studies, the history of art, urban studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies — and hail from across the United States and the world.

The keynote speakers will be Professor John Tagg of Binghampton University, who will present a talk titled “File Photos: Documents, Terror, Truth and Style” at 5:30 p.m. on Friday; and Marion Belanger, a professional photographer, who will present “Outside and Within: Boundary, Border, Edge” at 6 p.m. on Saturday. Both talks will take place in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.

The conference will include four panels on Saturday: “Memory, Postmemory, Countermemory,” “Biopolitics of Images,” “Urban Place and Space” and “Photography/Performance.” A Friday workshop titled “Tactics in Evidence” is already closed to registration, but those interested in attending the other conference activities can find a complete schedule and registration information at www.photographicproofs.com.

In addition to funding from the Beinecke Library and the Photographic Memory Workshop, the conference has received support from the African American Studies Program; the American Studies Program; the Andrews Society; the Graduate School Dean’s Fund for Student-Organized Symposia; the Department of the History of Art; the Public Humanities Initiative; the Yale School of Art; the Whitney Humanities Center; the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; the World Performance Project; and the Yale University Art Gallery.


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