The Culture and Art of Family Photographs

The Culture and Art of Family Photographs
 

Speakers: Elspeth Brown, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, author of Work!: A Queer History of Modeling (forthcoming from Duke University Press); Deepali Dewan, Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, editor of the special issue “Family Photography”, Trans Asian Photography Review (Fall 2018); Sarah Parsons, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, York University, co-editor of special issue “seeing Family,” Photography & Culture (Summer 2017); and Thy Phu, Associate Professor of English Studies, Western University, and Principle Investigator of the Family Camera Network project, author of Warring Visions of Vietnam (forthcoming from Duke University Press)

 

What are family photographs? How do they shape our memories? How do they meditate experiences of migration? What can they tell us about our national histories?

 

(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation for Arts)