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Oct 23, 2012 • Comments Closed SSHoP has initiated an innovative approach to appreciating the work of practising photographers under the title ‘Photographers in Close-up’. This is for work that is in the process of being undertaken and for a small group to be given an insight into what the photographer is doing. The first photographer is to be Jenny Wicks...
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Sep 26, 2012 • ‘Towards @earth: 40 Years of Dispatches from an Unofficial War Artist’ Peter Kennard is an acclaimed photographic artist who abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of new forms of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience. This search has resulted in the making of powerful photomontage and installation work covering major...
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Mar 8, 2012 • Comments Closed 2012 Annan Lecture. Thursday April 5 at 6.00 Jeffrey room, The Mitchell Library. Admission Free ‘The Word and the Image: Narrative in Fiction and Photography. James Robertson, in conversation with Robin Gillanders. James Robertson won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010 for his novel And the Land Lay Still in which...
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Jan 14, 2012 • Comments Closed West Dunbartonshire Council in partnership with Scottish Society for the History of Photography 14th January, 11AM – 12 noon: Robert Grieves Transport Archive Tim Aymes, Scottish Motor Museum Trust, will be discussing the Scottish transport photographs from the Robert Grieves Archive and Scottish Motorsport. Dumbarton Heritage Centre, Dumbarton Library, Strathleven Place, Dumbarton, G82 1BD. Free....
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Oct 23, 2011 • Comments Closed Genii Loci: Work in Progress Friday 28th October at 6.00pm Hawthornden Lecture Theatre National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Free, no booking required. Karen Knorr is an internationally acclaimed photographic artist who has published widely and won numerous prestigious awards for her intelligent and beautiful images involving interior installations and constructions. Since the early 1980s her...
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Jun 24, 2011 • Comments Closed If you were in the audience for last year’s brilliant Photographer’s Lecture, you’ll want to try and get to Simon Norfolk’s exhibition at Tate Modern. Characteristically, Norfolk’s message is the futility of war and the outrageousness of imperialism. This exhibition explores the current situation in Afghanistan by revisiting – or as he puts it, re-imagining...
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Apr 28, 2011 • Comments Closed Friday 13 May 2011, 10am-4pm. £20 (£10) Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh. To complement the ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander exhibition at the Dean Gallery, this symposium will address the cultural significance and legacy of August Sander’s hugely ambitious and methodical photographic analysis of the people of Weimar Germany. From his early contribution to...
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Apr 25, 2011 • On Saturday 7 May a (free) symposium is being held in the Burrell in Glasgow in connection with the exhibition of digital images from John Thomson’s photographs of life in China. The event promises to be wide-ranging and illuminating. Speakers include Sara Stevenson, Nick Pearce, Fung Ming-Chu (Deputy Director of the National Palace Museum in...
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Apr 25, 2011 • Comments Closed FotoSpace in Fife is seeking submissions from members of Scottish Photographers. Donald Stewart has written with information about this: Dear SSHoP Member, It is a rare event that sees the opening of a new gallery dedicated entirely to photography. However this is exactly what is happening in Fife at the Rothes Halls and Fife Foto...
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Mar 15, 2011 • Comments Closed Katherine Tubb: Sex, Drugs and Cabaret: 1920s Berlin through the photography of Marta Astfalck-Vietz Tuesday April 12 at 6.00 pm Mackintosh Lecture Theatre Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street Free, no booking required Until her recent re-discovery, Marta Astfalk-Vietz was almost completely unknown, even in her native Germany, but is now recognised as an...
To Paris in January! Members of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography and the Royal Photographic Society Historical Group shepherded by Donald Stewart had the privilege of a private tour of the exhibition Primitifs de la Photographie – Le Calotype en France 1843-1860 and a visit to the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale...
To Bradford for a two-day conference ‘Niépce in England’ (October 13-14 2010) dealing with four images. Two days? Just four images? Surely, hardly enough for a hundred photo-people, art historians, etc, to talk about for that duration, surely some mistake? Not at all. Fascinating. Of the images, only one was a photograph in the modern...
