Dr Francesca Strobino
@francescastrobino.bsky.social
Photographic Historian, Lecturer at LABA, Florence (she/her)
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Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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October 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
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Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
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I heard @francescastrobino.bsky.social on this at #BSHS2025 - an amazing archive and fascinating story of 'scientific' crafting and manipulation #histSTM
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Nuncius Essay Prize!
Francesca Strobino with ‘Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science. Giorgio Roster and His Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides’
Francesca Strobino with ‘Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science. Giorgio Roster and His Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides’
July 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I heard @francescastrobino.bsky.social on this at #BSHS2025 - an amazing archive and fascinating story of 'scientific' crafting and manipulation #histSTM
Very grateful for the prize and excited to share this article!
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Nuncius Essay Prize!
Francesca Strobino with ‘Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science. Giorgio Roster and His Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides’
Francesca Strobino with ‘Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science. Giorgio Roster and His Hand-Coloured Lantern Slides’
June 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Very grateful for the prize and excited to share this article!
I'm really excited to finally share my article "Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science," awarded the 2024 Nuncius Prize.
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
June 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I'm really excited to finally share my article "Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science," awarded the 2024 Nuncius Prize.
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
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In "Negative Originals," Juanita Solano Roa explores race and identity through photographic practices in late nineteenth-century Medellín, Colombia. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #VisualCulture #Photography
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June 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In "Negative Originals," Juanita Solano Roa explores race and identity through photographic practices in late nineteenth-century Medellín, Colombia. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #VisualCulture #Photography
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The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
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Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
Symposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum
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April 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
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Two upcoming events being disorganised by me:
1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...
1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Two upcoming events being disorganised by me:
1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...
1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...
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The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
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What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... .
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Yesterday @francescastrobino.bsky.social officially received her PhD 🎉🎉
I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️
I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️
February 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Yesterday @francescastrobino.bsky.social officially received her PhD 🎉🎉
I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️
I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️
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William Henry Fox Talbot, British polymath and eminent pioneer of photography, was born today, on the day, 225 years ago.
In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1
In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1
February 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
William Henry Fox Talbot, British polymath and eminent pioneer of photography, was born today, on the day, 225 years ago.
In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1
In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1
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#InternationalWomensDay is 8th March. Please join me & Kris Belden-Adams in a unique 24hour online conference celebrating women of #photography.
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…
February 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#InternationalWomensDay is 8th March. Please join me & Kris Belden-Adams in a unique 24hour online conference celebrating women of #photography.
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…
60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr…
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The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... .
February 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... .
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You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .
February 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .
New article out! I wrote about a small collection of eight salted paper prints by W. H. F. Talbot, housed in the Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Library. In addition to discussing these photographs, it explores the role of diplomats in the diffusion of paper photography across Central Europe
William Henry Fox Talbot's photographs at the Kórnik Library. Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej. Z.41 - Wielkopolska Digital Library
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February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New article out! I wrote about a small collection of eight salted paper prints by W. H. F. Talbot, housed in the Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Library. In addition to discussing these photographs, it explores the role of diplomats in the diffusion of paper photography across Central Europe
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My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...
THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism”
Applications are invited for three fully-funded AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award (+3) beginning in September 2025.
The rising popularity of the 35mm Leica camera and the Parvo video camera i...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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This look amazing! A 24-hour “conference-a-thon” all about women of photography. Coming in early March.
#photography
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
#arthistory
egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...
#photography
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
#arthistory
egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...
2025 | Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025
egrove.olemiss.edu
February 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This look amazing! A 24-hour “conference-a-thon” all about women of photography. Coming in early March.
#photography
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
#arthistory
egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...
#photography
#womenphotographers
#photohistory
#arthistory
egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...
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I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In...
January 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In...
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I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
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#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...
CfP - Mechanical Reproduction of Artefacts / 19thCentury - Umění/Art journal
The peer-reviewed academic journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19th century. - Abstract...
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December 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...
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Funded PhD in photographic history: please share widely! With The Story, Durham and @durhamhistory.bsky.social, 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections' will examine the photo archive of the Durham Light Infantry regiment over its 90-year history. Apply by January 31st! 🗃️📜📷📸
Current Opportunities - Durham University
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December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Funded PhD in photographic history: please share widely! With The Story, Durham and @durhamhistory.bsky.social, 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections' will examine the photo archive of the Durham Light Infantry regiment over its 90-year history. Apply by January 31st! 🗃️📜📷📸
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I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Take Me to the River: Place and Material in Visual Culture
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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December 4, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....