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'Ways of Seeing': Women and Photography in Scotland
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Posted by: National Trust for Scotland
Deadline: Fri, October 11th, 2019
The aim of this symposium is to explore how photography is used to tell women’s stories. We are particularly interested in how this is done in historic houses and heritage/museum spaces, and intend to challenge the existing display and interpretation practices of these institutions. We are also especially interested in photographs taken by Scottish women or depicting women’s lives in Scotland, as well as photographs where the absence of women can tell stories of their overlooked and marginalised lives.
· How has the camera impacted the representation of Scottish women or women in Scotland?
· How has photography by women illuminated the stories of marginalised women?
· What are (especially Scottish) women’s unique ‘ways of seeing’ the world through the camera lens?
· How has the camera been used to objectify women in Scotland, or Scottish women abroad?
· How have women photographers in Scotland, or Scottish women abroad, taken control of their own image?
· How does gendering the ‘woman photographer’ position them as ‘other’?
· Where are the women in our public photographic collections?
· Where are the women of colour in our public photographic collections, and what are the consequences of their absence to our national identity?
· How are photographs being used (or failing to be used) to tell women’s stories in museum and heritage institutions, including historic houses?
· How has photography by Scottish women or women in Scotland been collected or displayed in the past?
As well as full-length papers, we welcome proposals for the Shutter Speed Session that will take place during the symposium. This will be a quick-fire series of 5-minute talks followed by questions. We intend to publish the proceedings in a special edition of Studies, the journal of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography.
Please send a proposed title and abstract of 200-300 words for a 20-25-minute paper (or 100 words for the Shutter Speed Session) to Ben Reiss at breiss@nts.org.uk.
Posted on Mon, July 22nd, 2019
Expires on Fri, October 11th, 2019
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