Workshop: „Encounters with the Photographic Archive“ mit Elizabeth Edwards
9. April 2025, 09:30–17:30 Uhr
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Johannessaal
Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Wien
„Encounters with the Photographic Archive“
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Researching, Representing and Exhibiting Photographs – Examples from Central and Southeastern Europe and Kurdish Regions
This workshop examines critical approaches to engaging with visual archives in the 21st century, emphasizing processes of reinterpretation and rediscovery. It focuses on photographic archives created across various historical periods, regions and contexts, shaped by different production histories and sociopolitical conditions. Through a series of case studies, the workshop explores how photographs – be they private, un/sighted, or official – have been produced, archived, collected, used and exhibited. The focus is on the uncovering and critical engagement with existing private and public photographic archives.
With contributions by: Vida Bakondy (historian, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies/ÖAW, Vienna), Radovan Cukić (curator, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade), Elizabeth Edwards (visual and historical anthropologist, Prof. Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester), Katarina Matiasek (curator, Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna), Susan Meiselas (artist and photographer, New York), Robert Pichler (historical anthropologist and photographer, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies/ÖAW, Vienna), Maria Six-Hohenbalken (social anthropologist, Institute for Social Anthropology/ÖAW, Vienna), Martina Trognitz (linguist and archaeologist, ÖAW Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna), Eva Tropper (curator, Museum Joanneum, Graz)
