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Speaking of Photography 2010-11


Jeudi 21 octobre

EV-1.605
 Concordia University



Robert Hariman, 
Northwestern University
 &
  John Louis Lucaites
, Indiana University




Boots and Hands:
 Visual Tropes and Democratic Public Culture

 


Photojournalism, broadly construed, is a mode of public art that schools us to "see" and to be "seen" as citizens. As such, it provides an iconography for how to "think" about political character, relationships, and events. This lecture explores the implications of such a political iconography by examining the somewhat odd penchant that photojournalists have for taking pictures that feature "feet" and "hands" (or some iteration of the same, such as shoes, boots, gloves, prostheses, etc.) either exclusively or primarily.

Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites are the authors of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy - a book and a blog, each dedicated to discussion of the role that photojournalism and other visual practices play in a vital democratic society. Robert Hariman is professor in the program of rhetoric and public culture, department of communication studies at Northwestern University, and is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power. John Louis Lucaites is professor of rhetoric and public culture in the department of communication and culture at Indiana University and an adjunct professor of American studies. He is co-author of Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African World.

Presented in collaboration with the international colloquium Imaginaires du présent. Photographie, politique et poétique de l'actualité

Speaking of Photography is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor, with additional support from the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; the Concordia University Research Chair in Art History; the Art History Graduate Student Association; Figura, centre de recherche sur le texte et l'imaginaire, Université du Québec à Montréal and free sex pics Château Versailles Hotel.


All lectures in the 2010-11 series are be held in EV-1.605, the York Amphitheatre, on the ground floor of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West. Metro Guy-Concordia

Lectures are free and open to the public.