Eastman House Curator to Lecture on Bowdoin Exhibition Mar. 31

Story posted March 30, 2009

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Anna Atkins, Cyanotype: From the Great Observatory, Chatsworth, August 26, 1851.

Alison Nordström, curator of photographs at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, will present a lecture in conjunction with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's exhibition The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age.

Nordström's talk, titled "Ideas in Things: The Changing Vocabularies of Photographic Process," will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, 2009, in Searles Science Building, Room 315. The lecture is open to the public and admission is free.

The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age examines the paradoxical return of contemporary photographers to archaic photographic practices in today's digital age. In sharp contrast to the almost universal embrace of digital technology is the preference of a growing contingent of photographers who are revisiting nineteenth-century approaches to photography. The exhibition provides a singular opportunity to study contemporary images alongside vintage examples by their nineteenth-century predecessors.

Alison Nordström is on the faculty of the Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Master of Arts, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Program and is international editor of Photography and Culture, University of Arts, London.

For more information about the lecture or exhibition, call 725-3275.

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