All LIP events at the Photographers' Gallery are held in conjunction with the RPS Contemporary Group and are organised with the Gallery.
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In this symposium some prominent figures in photographic education consider a range of pressing questions. Such as what is the purpose of photographic education? Who are photography courses designed for? And do we need photographic education in an age of digital imaging and the Internet? On the other had if the objective of all education is to produce well rounded personalities perhaps a fostering of visual awareness should take its place on every school and college curriculum, and photographic education should be considered within the widest possible context. Is there, therefore, enough photographic education in this country?
The panel will consist of Olivier Richon, Course Director in Photography at the Royal College of Art; Paul Hill MBE, FRPS, who is Course Leader on the practice-based MA in Photography at De Montfort University, Leicester; Carol Hudson FRPS, who teaches City & Guilds photography courses and has had considerable experience in teaching people with handicaps and in `community' education, and Paul Seawright who is Course Leader in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport. Paul Wombell, Director of the Photographers' Gallery, will be in the chair.
11.00 am; £12 (members), £18 (non-members)
11.00am : £12 (members), £18 (non-members)
Bill Jay played a seminal role in the rejuvenation of interest in British `art' photography in the 1970s. He was the first editor of Creative Camera which became internationally acclaimed and was influential in the establishing of many photographic galleries around Britain including the Photographers' Gallery. He now teaches photography at the Arizona State University and he is the author of several renowned books on photography including Occam's Razor which is required reading on many degree courses,
In this workshop Bill Jay will discuss the practicalities of writing, reading and talking about photography for those who think photographic criticism should be intelligible, enjoyable and useful. The workshop will also include slide presentations, provocative discussions and `how to do it' advice.
11.00am: £12 (members), £18 (non-members)
Please note. This event is still to be confirmed
These three talks will consider how through the combinations of scientific and photographic developments we are able to see that which was hitherto invisible to the eye.
7.00pm; Members £3.50 (£9 for the series); Others £5.00 (£12 series)
David Spears is a graduate zoologist and a lifelong photographer who has combined his enthusiasm for communicating science with filming skills. In this talk David will show on video magnificent imaging from the natural and manufactured worlds as well as from the inside of the human body. He will describe his working methods which include the use of conventional equipment in novel ways and especially developed apparatus. He also utilises the latest techniques such as optical and scanning electron microscopy, thermography and endoscopy. His TV programme, also called `Beyond the Naked Eye', appeared on BBC2 on 7 December.
This talk will consider how the early pioneers in photography were able to show for the first time what the eye had previously been unable to ascertain. Edweard Muybridge (1 83 0-1904) began his monumental studies of human and animal movement because of a horse racing fanatic, Governor Leland Stanford of California. Colin Osman says `My interest began with racing pigeons and their wing movements.' He adds `Most interesting were the experiments of Etienne Jules Marey (also 1830-1904) who investigated these movements firstly by machines and then through photography. He and Muybridge created a new way of seeing movement.' Colin Osman was the founder owner and then editor of the renowned photographic magazine, `Creative Camera', which was launched at the end of the 1960s, and which he for some edited simultaneously with `The Racing Pigeon'.
When astronaut Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon his first words were `Beautiful. Beautiful, Magnificent desolation'. With these words Aldrin could also have been describing the history of space photography. In this talk, Jeremy Millar will look at photographs taken of space, and from space, and explore its relationship to the culture of the period, as well as its influence on artistic practice, from Hiroshi Sugimoto to the New Topographics movement.
Jeremy Millar is an artist and, since December 1995, Programme Organiser at The Photographers' Gallery, London. He has written on many aspects of contemporary art and is currently working on a cultural history of speed over the past two centuries.'