Please join us on December 6 to hear two presentations that utilize interdisciplinary methodologies, combining art historical inquiry with conservation-based data analysis. Bryanna Knotts and Cynthia Yue’s presentation "Spheres of Influence: Material Affinities in the Photographs of Lola Álvarez Bravo, Tina Modotti, and Edward Weston" examines photographs that engaged with Mexico’s communities and contributed to its reimagination of national identity and belonging.

Please join us for a Photography Network with Dr. Alise Tifantale talk that examines photography’s community-building potential in a divided world. In July 1963, Taiwan-based photographer Chin-San Long (Lang Jingshan, 1892–1995) opened his solo exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil, organized by the city’s most well-known photo club Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante

Join us on June 14 to learn the tips and tricks for perfecting your zoom interview. The event will begin with a presentation by Boston University’s Director for PhD Resource Sasha Goldman who specializes in career planning and professional development for PhD students and postdocs. We will then hear from Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and Peter Wang, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, to hear about their recent experiences serving on a hiring committee for a museum job and interviewing for an academic track position. The workshop hopes to demystify some of the interview and job application process. Be sure to come with questions!

Join us for a lively conversation on April 12 with curators Karina Corrigan and Stephanie Tung from the Peabody Essex Museum. This program will celebrate their recent exhibition catalog Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China, a 2023 PN Book Prize Awardee.

Please join us on March 5 for a conversation with Casey Riley, Chair of Global Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). This conversation will center Mia’s recent exhibition In Our Hands, an exhibition and catalogue Riley co-organized/co-edited with fellow Mia curators and a council of primarily Native artists, scholars, and knowledge sharers.

Framing the Field: Photography’s Histories in American Institutions is an archival initiative focused on the institutional formation of the field of photography in the United States from the 1970s through 1990s.

Long regarded as a “middle-brow” art, at the turn of the twentieth century, photography emerged as a well-established and popular contemporary art medium.

Join us for a conversation about photograph conservation with Tatiana Cole, Associate Photograph Conservator for the Harvard Art Museums. This talk will focus on the history and development of photograph conservation, different approaches to preservation, and methods employed by conservators when treating photographic materials from the 19th century.

This roundtable investigates photography as a technology of modernity—from its earliest moments to the twenty-first century. It examines the medium’s itinerant character, its role in the visualization of cultural identity and diasporic modes of representation in Africa and the Middle East.

Please join us June 2 for a professional development workshop on Cover Letters. This workshop will offer information on the core components of cover letters for both museum and academic job applications. Leading the workshop will be Leslie Ureña, Associate Curator, Global Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Emily Voelker, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

The Photography Network is excited to host a conversation between research-based artists May Babcock and Lindsey Beal, both located in the Providence area.

Our 2023 event series launches on March 17 at 12pm, EST, with a Zoom presentation: Navigating the Archive: Marie Meyerding and Lily Cho in Conversation.

Thursday, December 8, 9 AM PST / 12 noon EST / 5 PM GMT 

Two institutional case studies, from the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and LACMA / Brooklyn Museum, will explore how curators think about and contextualize permanent collections in ways that will resonate with audiences, advance the institution’s mission, and open further interpretive possibilities.

Photography Network is proud to present this virtual program.

Recent scholarly discourse on photographies has treated the subject of art and photography as a relic of the past. Has the aesthetic been delegitimized as a vital area of scholarly research? In this presentation Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh, editors of a recent anthology of essays on art and photography in the 19th century, make the case for revisiting the material and metaphorical interplay between photography and the arts, with “arts” encompassing a range of media from the visual culture of the time.

Join us for a lively event honoring PN 2021 Book Prize Awardees Heather Diack, author of Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art (UMN Press, 2020), and Sarah M. Miller, author of Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland (RIC Books with MIT Press, 2020).