Hello All - Sorry for cross-postings
This is to announce a conference entitled:
PORTRAITURE IN THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 1850-1910
which will be held on Saturday, November 8 and Sunday, November 9, 1997 at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. This conference is organized by the National Portrait Gallery and the Victorian Society in America in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art.
There will be an all day symposium on Saturday, November 8th. Check-in is at 9:30 AM at the National Portrait Gallery.
10:00 - Welcome and Introduction by Alan Fern, Director, National Portrait Gallery; John Simonelli, President, The Victorian Society in America; Barbara L. Michaels, Author, Gertrude Kasebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs and co-chair of the conference; and Mary Panzer, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, and co-chair.
10:15 - "Mathew Brady and Phrenology" - Charles Colbert, Author, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America
10:45 - "Walt Whitman, New York, and the Daguerreotype: Understanding the 'Leaves of Grass' Portrait" - Denise Bethel, Director, Photographs Department, Sotheby's Inc., NY
11:30 - "Witnesses to History: George P. A. Healy's Painting Webster's Reply to Hayne" - Sally Webster, Professor of America Art, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
12:00 - "'Jumping Babies Daguerreotyped': Techniques of Child Photography in the Victorian Era" - Peter Palmquist, Photographic Historian, collector, and author
2:00 - "Bronze Portraits in New York City Parks: More than Fifteen Minutes of Fame" - Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art & Antiques, New York City Department of Recreation
2:30 - "English Carte de Visite Photographic Portraiture, 1862-1867: The Politics of Fact, Values, and Viewers" - Joann Lukitsch, Assistant Professor of Art History, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
3:15 - "Not Mimesis, But Catharsis: Portraiture as Theatrical Response" - Lilly Koltun, Photographic Historian and Director General of the Archives Headquarters Accommodation Project, National Archives of Canada
3:45 - "The Miniature in the Age of Photography: Minerva Chapman's Portraits" - Mary Jo McNamara, Assistant Professor, Sate University of New York, Potsdam
4:15 - "Caricature as Portraiture: Americans through English Eyes in Vanity Fair" - Roy T. Matthews, Professor of History, Michigan State University; and co-author, In Vanity Fair
4:45 Closing Remarks
5:30 - Wine and Cheese Reception
Sunday, November 9, 1997: Morning Lectures & Exhibit Tours
10:00 - A.M. Check in at the National Portrait Gallery
10:30 - Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art - Mary Panzer, Curator of the exhibition and author, Mathew Brady and the Image of History, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery
11:00 - Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places - Eleanor Dwight, Guest curator of the exhibition, lecturer, and author
11:30 - Exhibit tours
The National Portrait Gallery is at F Street at 8th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. It is on the Metro red line at the Gallery Place stop.
The registration fee for both days is $60. Pre-registration is required. There will be no on-site registration. The registration fee does not cover accommodation, transportation, or meals. All registration requests must be postmarked by November 3rd. To register, and for more information, contact:
The Victorian Society in America
219 South Sixth Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
phone: (215) 627-4252
fax (215) 627-7221
web site: www.libertynet.org/~vicsoc
Hope to see lots of you there!
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