Photography and the City

Photography and the City

Conference
29th June - 1 July 2006
Call for Papers

The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites single paper and panel proposals for a three-day international conference examining the relationship between the city and photography. The Institute welcomes proposals analysing historical, cultural, socio-economic, and technical aspects of this relationship. Practising photographers are encouraged to submit proposals. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners to examine and illustrate the role of photography in representing urban life and landscapes, and in shaping urban ways of seeing.

Plenary Speakers include: William J. Mitchell (Head of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, and author of The Reconfigured Eye and City of Bits)

Topics to be addressed might include one or more of the following themes:

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The technologisation of urban vision
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Photography and urban change
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Urban destruction and aesthetics of urban ruin
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Genre (landscape, advertising, street, architectural, etc)
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Space, place and identity
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Sexualising and racialising of urban vision
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Documentary approaches to the 'urban real'
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Voyeurism and urban spectatorship
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Urban surveillance
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The role of photographic images in urban environment
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The photographic imagineering of city identities



Please send one-page proposals with a brief CV by 31 March 2006 to:

Catherine Carey, Clinton Institute for American Studies, William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Tel: 353 1 7161560 Fax: 01 7161562
Email: Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie