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UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies

Photography and the City Conference

Thursday 29th June

VENUE William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD

Conference Programme

Thursday 29th June

VENUE William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD

10.00am Registration, tea/coffee

11.00am Welcome Address

Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)

11.15am Plenary Address

1: Peter Hales (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Centrifugal Cities

12.15pm Lunch

1.30 - 3.00pm

Panels A1 - A3

A1: Urban Change I

Terje Borgersen, (Norwegian Univesity of Science & Technology), City Photography - On Voyeurism and Urban Spectatorship

C.Y. Jim (University of Hong Kong), Vicissitudes of Urban Greening in Hong Kong: Systematic Analysis of Historical & Contemporary Photographs

Paulo Catrica (Photographer), The New Towns Programme: Photography, Ideology and Landscape

A2: Architecture

Ian Leith (English Hertiage), Bedford Lemere: City Photographer

Aleksandra Idzior (University College of the Fraser Valley), Photographic Images as Evidence Against the Urban Status Quo in Georgii Krutikov's 'City of the Future'

Neil Hertz, (Johns Hopkins University), People and Stones

A3: Homelessness

Colin Jacobson (University of Westminster, London), Making the Visible Invisible: Photography and the Urban Homeless

Robert Terrell & Jean McIntosh (California State University & West Valley College), Guerilla Photography For a Better Community

Martina Mullaney (Photographer), Killing Time

3.00pm Tea/Coffee

3.30 - 5.00pm

Panels B1-B3

B1: Street Photography

Steven Jacobs (Ghent University), What Ever Happened to Street Photography?

Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin), HEADS: Philip-Lorca diCorcia's Potrayal of Urban Consciousness

B2: Urban Change II

Lúcia Marques (University of Lisbon), Lisboa: A Study Case on the Photographic Construction on the City's Image

Sri-Kartini Leet (University of Northampton) Spatial Topographies: The City Imag(in)ed from Centre to Periphery

B3: Absence/Emptiness

Marianna Michalowska (Adam Mickiewicz University), Identity of Emptiness: Photography of Urban Space as a Representation of Eastern Europe Lost Identity

Agnė Narušytė (Vilnius Academy of Rine Arts), Soviet City: From Youthful Zest to the Aesthetics of Boredom

Steffi Klenz (Photographer), Nonsuch

6.30pm Gallery of Photography

Temple Bar, Opening of American Ruins, an exhibition of works by Camilo José Vergara

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Friday 30th June

VENUE William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium

9.00am Plenary Address

II: Camilo José Vergara (Photographer),
American Ghetto Online

10.00am Tea/Coffee

10.30 - 12.00pm

Panels C1- C3

C1: Mixed Media

JoAnna Mancini (NUI Maynooth), Inverting the City, Embodying the Collector: Louis Prang's Chromolithographs for Oriental Ceramic Art: The Collection of W.T. Walters

Paul Halliday (Goldsmith College, London), Blurred Visions: Painting, Photography and the Street

Lia Chavez (Goldsmith College, London), Language of Light: Rhizomatic Visions of the Urban Network

C2: Reform

Gary Boyd (University College Dublin), In the Shadows of the Old Town: Thomas Annan and 19th Century Glasgow

Dag Petersson (The Royal Library, Copenhagen), Jacob Riis in Copenhagen, 1866-1869

Kerstin Schmidt (University of Bayreuth), "Flashes from the Slums": Social Photography and the Reconfiguration of Urban Space

C3: Suburbs

Raphaële Bertho Photography, Suburbs and Psychogéography

Holley Wlodarczyk (University of Minnesota), Intermediate Landscapes: Construction Photographs of Late Twentieth Century Suburbia

Eric Sandeen (University of Wyoming), What We Bought: Robert Adams and the Development of Metropolitan Denver

12.00pm Lunch

1.00-2.30pm

Panels D1- D3

D1: Ruins I

Darien Jane Rozentals (University of New South Wales), The Transforming Aesthetic of Industrial Ruins in Manchester

Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), The City in the Ruins: Photography, Urban Revolution and the Visual Economy of the Easter Rising

D2: Skyscraper

Derrick Price (University of Plymouth), The Skyscraper and the Photograph

Meredith TeGrotenhuis (Northwestern University), Lofty Domains: Fantasies of Ascent in Elevated Urban Views of the 1930s

Mary Woods (Cornell University), Women on Top: Photographing New York City Skyscrapers

D3: Tourism

Bruno Notteboom (University of Ghent), From Monument to Landscape & Back Again: Photography in the 'Bulletin du Touring Club de Belgique' in the Early Twentieth Century

Alejandrina Escudero (The National University of Mexico), Taxco, Mexican Shangri-La

Gerlinde Miesenboeck (University of Lapland), Creating the Tourist Imagination of Rome Through Photography in Contemporary Travel Guides

2.30pm Tea/Coffee

3.00 - 4.30pm

Panels E1 - E3

E1: Urban Ethnography I

Greg Smith (University of Salford) Sidewalk Snaps: Photography and the Politics of (In)visibility in Mitchell Duneier's Urban Ethnography

Maeve Hickey (Photographer) & Lawrence Taylor (NUI Maynooth), Through the Eyes of Children: Photographing a Mexican Border City

E2: Images in the City

Anne Cronin (Lancaster University), Advertising and the Possibilities of the City

Catherine De Lorenzo (University New South Wales), Realising Riley in Branly

Neli Dobreva (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris),
Documentary Approach of the "Urban Real": The Embodied Real of 9/11 Images

E3: Space I

Ignaz Cassar (University of Leeds), Suspended Zones - Around London Prisons

Peter Mörtenböck (Goldsmith College London), Free Running: The City Between Image and Imagination

Gerard Smulevich (Woodbury University), The Reconfigured Frame

4.30pm Tea/Coffee

5.00 - 6.30pm

Panels F1 - F3

F1: Urban Ethnography II

James Fraher (Photographer) and Roger Wood (Houston Community College-Central), Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues, Collaborating to Document a Blues Community

Helen Liggett (Cleveland State University), Let All God's People Say Amen

Melinna Kaminari (Panteion University), Project <<Borderlines: in the Limits of the Contemporary City and the Archaeological Sites of Athens>>

F2: Surveillance

Gail Baylis (University of Ulster, Coleraine), Geographies of Space: City Surveillance and Nineteenth-Century Irish Eviction Photography

Teresa Castro (Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle), Blurring the City: Olivo Barbieri's Model Cities

Cyril Thomas (University of Paris X Nanterre), The "mise en scène" of Urban Surveillance in Contemporary Photography

F3: Street Photography II

Dervila Cooke (Trinity College Dublin), The Parisan Flàneur and the Book of Photographs of Paris

Alan Marcus (University of Manchester), Imaging Urban Youth: New York City in the 1930s/40s

Ariadne van de Ven (Photographer), The Eyes of the Street: With a Camera in Calcutta

10.00pmOutdoor Screening of Rear Window in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar

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Saturday 1st July

9.00 - 10am Paul Seawright

Invisible Cities: Stating the Obvious

10 - 10.30am Tea/Coffee

10.30 - 12.00pm

Panels G1 - G4

G1: Paris

Anne Ronayne (Croydon College), Auratic Traces: Hysteria, Ecstasy and The Photograph

Douglas Smith (University College Dublin), Double Exposure: Photography and the City in Brassaï

Nina Lager Vestberg (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dreaming Paris: Photography and Experience in the Post-War City

G2: Ruins II

Yasufumi Nakamori (Cornell University), Life Cycle of the City: Tokyo in Photography after the 1923 Kanto Great Earthquake

Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute), The Ruins of New York

G3: City/Nation

Miriam Paeslack (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst), Urban Photography in Post-Reunification Germany

Ian Wiblin (University of Glamorgan), Revisiting the Spectral City: Breslau/Wroclaw Photographically Reconsidered

Christina Quinlan (Dublin City University), Capital Consumption: Dublin in Late Modernity

12.00pm Lunch

1.00 - 2.30pm

Panels H1- H3

H1: Archive: John Joseph Dwyer (Western Australia, 1896-1917)

Geoffrey London (University of Western Australia), Bearing Witness: The Street Photographs of John Dwyer

Philip Goldswain (University of Western Australia), Prospects and the Picturesque: JJ Dwyer and the "Manufactured Landscape of Kalgoorlie"

William M. Taylor (University of Western Australia), Dark Portraiture: Social and Environmental Contexts for Dwyer's Kalgoorlie Night-Time and Mine Scenes

Clarissa Ball (University of Western Australia), The Crumbling of Empire and the Photographic Double in the Work of John Dwyer

H2: Identity

Judy Bullington (University of Sharjah), Through the Prism: Camille Zakharia's Photo-Montage as Medium and Message

Margarida Medeiros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), City Life, Photography Surveillance and the Influence of Michel Foucault

Warren Neidech (Goldsmith College, London), Urban Inversus: From the Inside-Out Body to the Constructive of the Intensive Field

H3: Modernity

Gary Van Zante (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Museum), Reconstructing New Orleans: Theodore Lilienthal's Photographic Campaign for the Paris World Exposition of 1867

Brian Stokoe (University of Northumbria), The Image of London: Photography and Modernity in the Cityscapes of E.O. Hoppé

Kim Knowles (Univeristy of Edinburgh), Modernity in Ruins: The Urban Photography of Man Ray

2.30pm Tea/Coffee

2.30 - 4.00pm

Panels J1-J3

J1: Urban Change III

King Tong Ho (AUT University), Documind

Nicolas Fève (Photographer), The City as Photographic Practice: Representing and Shaping Urban Ways of Seeing

J2: New Media

David Crawford (University of Göteborg), Realism vs. Reality TV in the War on Terror: Artworks as Models of Interpretation

Annie Gentes (National Institute for Telecommunications, Paris) Webcamed Cities: An Inquiry into New Representations of Cities on the Net

Olatokunbo Olaleye (Ryerson University), Digitizing Ibadan: Exploring Photoblogosphere as a Site of Resistance

J3: Space & Memory

Venda Louise Pollock (University of Glasgow), Dis/Re-membering the Gorbals: Collective Memory in the Photography of Oscar Marzaroli

Leonardo Ventapane de Carvalho (Fotopoétic, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Nostalgia: The City that Wasn't There

4.00pm Tea/Coffee

4.15 - 5.45pm

Panels K1 - K3

K1: Liminal Spaces

Bruno Chalifour (Photographer), The Dark Postmodern Side of American Cities Around the Great Lakes

James Brogden (University of Leeds), The New Unknown in the Well Known

K2: Urban Change IV

Men Xiaoyan (Photographer), Urban Photography in China

Joseph Lewandowski (Charles University Prague), Urban Photography as Social Critique

K3: Space III

Sergej Stoetzer (Darmstadt University of Technology), Photographic Representation of Urban Identites

Leonardo Caldi (University of Paris 8), Close Cities

Carlos Murad (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) Photopoetics and Urban Poiesis

5pm Tea/Coffee

5.30 - 6.30pm Roundtable Discussion

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