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Sarah Parsons

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Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, York University, Lead editor, Photography and Culture. Thinking about privacy and photography

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Sarah Parsons

@sparsons.bsky.social

2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre!

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Fellowship | The Image Centre

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December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Dr Beatriz Pichel

@beapichel.bsky.social

The next Ethics of Medical Photography Network seminar will be on Mon 8 Dec, 2 pm UK time, online and we'll discuss a very hot topic: consent! We couldn't have better speakers: @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Arya Thampuran. Book your place here: forms.gle/QUxL41SwixUH...

The Ethics of Medical Photography Network Online Seminar

Join us for the next online seminar! Date: Monday 8 December 2025 Time: 2-3.30 pm UK time Platform: Ms Teams ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY Speakers: Dr Arya Thampuran (Durham University...

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October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM

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Christina Riggs

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PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social · Oct 24

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Annual Conference 2026

Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

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October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM

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Christine Slobogin

@slobogin.bsky.social

Our next Corner Society (and the last one of the season!) is on April 16!

Please join us (in person or online) to hear Brynne McBryde speak about her brilliant work on photographic manipulation in medical journals.

Wednesday, April 16, 5:30 pm, Rochester Academy of Medicine or online.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CORNER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

"A Certain Interest in Curiosity": Manipulation in Early Medical Photography and the Erotics of Pathologized Viewing

Brynne McBryde, PhD
Collegiate Fellow
University of Maryland

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
5:30 pm Lecture
6:45 - 7:15 Social Gathering

In 1869 an innovative new medical journal the Photographic Review of Paris Hospitals (Revue photographique des hôpitaux de Paris) made its debut. Unlike previous journals and textbooks, which relied on hand-made prints for illustrations, the Photographic Review published photographs taken in the Paris hospitals, touting their “truth” and “superiority to other visual mediums.” What are we to make, then, of the fact that several of the photographs in the journal have quite clearly been manipulated? This talk looks carefully at the types of images that were published in the Photographic Review, the ways they were manipulated, and the dynamics of elite male social networks in nineteenth-century France to explore the motivations of the journal’s editors and readers and how they have become sanitized by notions of medical objectivity today. Together, we will consider the role that pleasure played and plays in viewing and sharing images of extreme physical difference and what, if anything, separates medical looking from other forms of visual consumption.
Please be aware that this talk includes photographs of nude people, some featuring genitalia, whose level of consent is impossible to determine.

More information and registration here: https://www.raom.org/event-6111713

March 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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Steffen Siegel

@steffensiegel.bsky.social

“Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History?” A conference at The Image Centre in Toronto, March 31 through Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Here is more:

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February 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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Dr Beatriz Pichel

@beapichel.bsky.social

The call for papers for the annual Photographic History Research Centre conference is out! This year we're thinking through the many meanings of value. "Photography, Value, History", 17-18 June, hybrid. Send us your proposal by 10 Jan! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #PhotoHist