Conference: ‘What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth’ at The International Center of Photography

November 2008

 

Fazal Sheikh (American, b. 1965) 'The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan (Abdul Aziz holding a photograph of his brother, Mula Abdul Hakim)' 1997

 

Fazal Sheikh (American, b. 1965)
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan (Abdul Aziz holding a photograph of his brother, Mula Abdul Hakim)
1997

 

Conference

What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth

This conference brings together renowned photographers, artists, writers, curators, and scholars in a series of panels and conversations:

– Redefining Documentary: The State of Documentary Photography Today
– Art versus Document: An (Un)comfortable Union?
– Public/Private: Community in the Digital Age
– Who Needs Truth Anyway? The Uses and Ethics of Documentary

Participants include Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Nayland Blake, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Y. Levin, Maria Lind, Susan Meiselas, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Brian Wallis, and others.

 

 

The International Center of Photography
Presents A Two-Day Symposium
to Examine The Changing Nature of Documentary Practice.

Friday December 12th 2008 6 – 10pm
Saturday December 13th 2008 9 – 5pm

The Times Center
242 West 41st Street
New York City

The International Center of Photography website

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Europeana: connecting cultural heritage – digital paintings, books, films and archives

November 2008

 

Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive

 

 

Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive – is a project that began in July 2007. The website gives users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.

The digital content will be selected from that which is already digitised and available in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The website aims to have representative content from all four of these cultural heritage domains, and also to have a broad range of content from across Europe. The interface will be multilingual. Initially, this may mean that it is available in French, English and German, but the intention is to develop the number of languages available following the launch.”

 

 

Europeana collections website

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