Conference Program
Oct. 17 - Day One
Oct. 17 - Day One
9 Registration and coffee
9.30 Keynote: Sara Dominici, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster - The Flash and the Fixing of the Latent Image in the American Photographic Imagination, ca. 1890
10.30-12.30 Panel 1 - Flash: History and Counter-History / Le flash : histoire et contre-histoire - Chair: Kate Flint (University of Southern California)
- Niharika Dinkar, Associate Professor, Art Department, Boise State University [EN] - Flash-gun: Photogen, Gunpowder and the Pyrotechnics of Photography
- Shannon Perich, Curator, Photographic History Collection, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History [EN] - Insidious Violence in Flash Photography
- Giulia Paoletti, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Virginia [EN] - An Archeology of Flash as Seeing: The Xoymet in Senegal
- Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies, Yale University [EN] - “An Adequate Idea” - Mammoth Cave by Flashlight
12.30-2 Lunch
2-3.30 Panel 2 - The Flash as Commodity: Workers, Inventors, Consumers / Le flash comme produit : travail, invention, consommation - Chair: Carolin Görgen (HDEA, Sorbonne Université)
- Monica Bravo, Assistant professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University [EN] - There in a Flash: Magnesium, Mercury, and Mining Photography at New Almaden
- Stéphanie Barbier, Docteure en histoire de l’art, HICSA, Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne [FR] - Dimitri Rebikoff, le flash électronique et ses usages
- Michael Pritchard, Independent scholar and consultant to the Royal Photographic Society [EN] - Amateur Flash: ‘not so popular as it deserves’
3.30-4 Coffee Break
4-5.30 Panel 3 - Powder, Lightings and Smokes / Poudres, éclairs et fumées - Chair: Éléonore Challine (HICSA, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Denis Bernard, CEHTA, Centre d'Histoire et de Théorie des Arts, EHESS [FR] - L’éclair magnésique : vers un nouvel imaginaire photographique
- Isabelle Lynch, PhD candidate, History of art, University of Pennsylvania [EN] - Subterranean Fire: Photography by Magnesium Flash in the Dark Rooms of the Earth
- Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák, Curator, Historical Photo Department, Hungarian National Museum [EN] - The Aesthetics of Cave Photography
Oct. 18 - Day two
9 Coffee
9.15-10.45 Panel 4 - Stage, Backstage / En scène et en coulisses - Chair: Paul-Louis Roubert (EPHA, Université Paris 8)
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.45 Panel 5 - Photogenics and Visual Experiments / Photogénie et expérimentations visuelles - Chair: Flora Triebel (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
12.45-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.45 Panel 6 - Flash and Visualities: Narrating Social Spaces / Flash et visualités : mettre en récit les espaces sociaux - Chair: Ece Zerman (InVisu, INHA)
3.45 Coffee Break
4.15-5.30 The Ethics of Flash Photography, roundtable with Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Marvin Heiferman, Writer and curator; and Thy Phu, Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Justice, University of Toronto– moderated by Audrey Sands (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art)
9.15-10.45 Panel 4 - Stage, Backstage / En scène et en coulisses - Chair: Paul-Louis Roubert (EPHA, Université Paris 8)
- Arnaud Rykner, Professeur des Universités, Institut de Recherche en Études Théâtrales, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle [FR] - Le flash au magnésium et l’invention de la photographie de spectacle
- Colette Morel, ATER à l’Université Grenoble-Alpes, chercheuse associée au LARHRA [FR] - « Ébloui par le noir ». Le tourisme visuel des amateurs en coulisses
- Meghan Angelos, PhD Candidate, Art History, University of Delaware [EN] - Flashes of Movement: Flash Photography and the Development of American Dance Photography
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.45 Panel 5 - Photogenics and Visual Experiments / Photogénie et expérimentations visuelles - Chair: Flora Triebel (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- Julien Faure-Conorton, Chargé de recherche et de valorisation scientifique des collections, Musée départemental Albert-Kahn [FR] - L’éclair artistique : usages, enjeux et popularité du flash dans la photographie pictorialiste
- Allison Pappas, Independent Historian and Curator of Photography [EN] - “The Aerial Observer”: Motion, Space, and Flash in Photography’s Instrumentalization of Vision in the 1940s
- Cole Robertson, DPhil in Fine Art (Practice Led), Royal College of Art, London [EN] - Figured, Grounded: Flash and the Photographic Gestalt
12.45-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.45 Panel 6 - Flash and Visualities: Narrating Social Spaces / Flash et visualités : mettre en récit les espaces sociaux - Chair: Ece Zerman (InVisu, INHA)
- Lauren Pankin, Doctorante, LARCA, Université Paris Cité [FR] - Flash(back) : La vieille France qui s'en va
- Myles Little, PhD candidate, Art History, University of Southern California [EN] - Bruce Davidson’s Underground Nightmare
- Yechen Zhao, Assistant Curator, Art Institute of Chicago [EN] - Lighting Up the People’s Republic of China: Flash Photography and the Electrification of China After 1990
3.45 Coffee Break
4.15-5.30 The Ethics of Flash Photography, roundtable with Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Marvin Heiferman, Writer and curator; and Thy Phu, Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Justice, University of Toronto– moderated by Audrey Sands (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art)
