Open World Album

As part of their ongoing exhibition Open World Album, Photographs 1842-1911 (4 April to 2 July 2023), Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris has organized a symposium in the museum on 15 and 16 June 2023. Professor Geoffrey Batchen is one of the keynote speakers.

With researchers, photo-historians and curators from around the world (Emmanuel Kasahérou, Edouard de Saint-Ours, Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman, Jennifer Bajorek, Manuel Charpy, Céleste Haller, Aston Gonzalez, Jane Lydon, Angela Wanhalla, Frank Ogou, Christine Barthe and Annabelle Lacour, Alexander Supartono, Maria Inez Turazzi, Patricia Zalamea, Jürg Schneider, Batchen and Rahaab Allana), this two-day symposium intends to reflect on the plural histories of photography. Based on their authorial/artistic practices and experiences, the speakers will address the transcontinental circulation of images and albums, examine the positioning of the "photographed" and their relationship to the medium; and expand on the significance of alternative photographic narratives.

Jules Itier (France), Monsieur Itier's Cange Under Sail on the Nile, 1845-46 daguerreotype