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Art NOW series presents Geoffrey Batchen
Political Ecologies: Photography in Crisis
12 pm MT | February 13, 2023
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
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Geoffrey Batchen joins us virtually in the recital hall for this lecture.
As everyone knows, we are currently facing an ecological crisis that threatens the very survival of our species on this planet. What can art, and especially my own specialist interest, photographic art, do to induce us to act in the face of ecological degradation and climate change? How can photographs confront us with our own culpability in, and responsibility for, this state of affairs? How, in particular, can art practices link environmental concerns with social and economic ones and make all of them seem urgent? How can they present us with a political ecology in image form? This paper will address these questions through a comparison of the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtinsky and New Zealand photographer Joyce Campbell, with a particular concentration on a series of daguerreotypes made by Campbell in Antarctica in 2006.
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford. His latest book is titled Negative/Positive: A History of Photography (Routledge, 2021).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
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