Who’s afraid of art and photography? A presentation by Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh

Written By Stephanie Burchett

Thursday, June 9 at 9am PDT • 12 Noon EDT • 5pm BST

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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. 

This program is generously supported by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

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