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'Poor Man’s Picture Gallery': Art and Stereoscopic Photography – Research seminar Tate Research Centre: Victorian and Edwardian Art

4 November 2014 at 13.00–17.00
Michael Burr The Death of Chatterton

Michael BurrThe Death of Chatterton (red flowers) c.1861 photograph, hand coloured albumen prints on stereo card

Collection Dr Brian May

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. 

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, Curator 

13.30–14.00

‘Photography, cultural heritage and the expanding historical imagination’

Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Director, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University 

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 London 

14.30–15.00

Tea and biscuits 

15.00–15.30

'The Death of Chatterton'

Professor Lindsay Smith, English, Sussex Centre for the Visual 

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 University 

16.00–16.30

‘Living Pictures for All: Realism, Art and Stereoscopy’

Professor John Plunkett, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Exeter 

16.30–17.00

Discussion

Chaired by Professor Lynn Nead, Pevsner Chair Of History Of Art, Birkbeck, University of London

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4 November 2014 at 13.00–17.00

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