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LECTURE
ALISON NORDSTRÖM“A THOUSAND WORDS: INTERSECTIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE”
“A THOUSAND WORDS: INTERSECTIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE”
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 6:30 pm
Venue: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
“Useful Photographs: Documentary as History and Idea” is an illustrated overview of photographs we have called documentary, and how their uses and meanings have changed over time. In addition to such familiar image-makers as Timothy O’Sullivan, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, and Dorothea Lange we will look at how documentary photographs relate to social reform, modernism, photojournalism, and popular culture, as well as contemporary practice in such genres as travel, social science and art.
Alison Nordström, © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos, 2024
Alison Nordström is an independent scholar, writer and curator specializing in photography. Her long career in the field includes positions as Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography (FL), and Senior Curator of Photographs, Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House (NY). She has worked extensively with photographers and photographic institutions in Europe, Asia and the Americas; Her essays have been published by Aperture, Dewi Lewis, Kehrer Verlag, Steidl, Radius, Daylight, Routledge and University of Texas Press, among others. She has curated over 100 photographic exhibitions in nine countries, including Lewis Hine, Truth/Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945, and Ideas in Things: Photography and Materiality. In 2015 and 2016 she was artistic Director of Fotofestiwal Lodz, in Poland. She was the curator of Joan Fontcuberta: Crisis of History for the Hamburg Photographic Triennial in 2018, and of Findings. Torben Eskerod opening on view at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt in November 2020. She is currently a Research Associate in Photography at Harvard University.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 290 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
