Join us for our Victorian and Edwardian Art Research Centre’s seminar on the upcoming BP Spotlight Display 'Poor Man’s Picture Gallery': Art and Stereoscopic Photography.Ìý
Exploring how the reproduction of fine art imagery through the intimate hand-held form of stereoscopy has affected our understanding of both forms of art, the display raises questions about realism central to the nineteenth-century arts. This seminar will provide an opportunity to share research on the works in the display, and to consider the relationship between stereoscopes and fine art.
Programme
13.00–13.30
‘A Poor Man's Picture Gallery’
Denis Pellerin, CuratorÌý
13.30–14.00
‘Photography, cultural heritage and the expanding historical imagination’
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Director, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort UniversityÌý
14.00–14.30
‘Inside the Sepia Cube: stereoscopic photographs of sculptures as ideal exhibition space’
Dr Patrizia di Bello, Lecturer in History and Theory of Photography, Birkbeck, University of LondonÌý
14.30–15.00
Tea and biscuitsÌý
15.00–15.30
'The Death of Chatterton'
Professor Lindsay Smith, English, Sussex Centre for the VisualÌý
15.30–16.00
‘Knowledge in 3D: the art and science of the real’
Dr Kelley Wilder, Reader in Photographic History, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort UniversityÌý
16.00–16.30
‘Living Pictures for All: Realism, Art and Stereoscopy’
Professor John Plunkett, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of ExeterÌý
16.30–17.00
Discussion
Chaired by Professor Lynn Nead, Pevsner Chair Of History Of Art, Birkbeck, University of London