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Conference: (New) Perspectives on Seaside Photography

10 Jul 2014 – 11 Jul 2014

Event times

9.30am - 5pm, both days

Cost of entry

£66 / £40 students / £55 day rate (Thursday only)

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Sidney Cooper Gallery

Canterbury, United Kingdom

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  • Canterbury West or Canterbury East
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About

This conference explores seaside photography in its very broadest sense and provides an exciting critical space for debate and enquiry: the seaside as boundary between different environments; its location in contemporary photographic practice; seaside photography in an historical context, including class, gender issues and youth; the vernacular; the demotic; regeneration and the rise of leisure as captured in seaside imagery etc. Day 1 takes place at the Sidney Cooper Gallery. Day 2 takes place at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Transportation will be provided for all speakers and delegates. Confirmed Speakers: Martin Parr Brigitte Lardinois (Deputy Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at the University of the Arts in London) Audrey Linkman (author of The Victorians Photographic Portraits and Photography and Death ) The conference responder is Professor Val Williams (Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at the University of the Arts in London)

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