PhotoResearcher
The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial
PhotoResearcher No. 41
English
Edited by Dr. Sara Dominici.
Softcover
144 pages
217 x 280 mm
2024
ISSN 09582606
The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial is the first edited volume of PhotoResearcher to explore the darkroom as a topic of analysis. Its aim is to examine the darkroom as a generative space, looking in particular at how its changing material constitutions, social settings, and the experiences that these factors enabled and constrained, impacted on the wider discipline of photography. In doing so, this special issue begins to unearth those histories of ecological transactions between people and their physical and chemical environments, of labour, of class, gender, and racial inequalities, but also of collaboration, that subtend our global photographic heritage, and to start a critical conversation on the place that the darkroom has occupied in the wider history of photography.
PhotoResearcher no. 41 originates in the international conference “In the Photographic Darkroom”, which Dr. Sara Dominici convened at the University of Westminster (London) in June 2023. The conference brought together artists, writers, theorists, researchers, and scholars to contemplate the photographic darkroom as a somewhat overlooked space in the histories and theories of photographic image-making.
The journal contains contributions by Jennifer Tucker, Junko Theresa Mikuriya, Michelle Henning, Michael Pritchard, Franziska Lampe, Núria F. Rius, Kelley Wilder and Uschi Klein, and closes with a case study in the form of a conversation between CREAM doctoral researcher, Lucy Rogers and three members of the London-based collective The Gate Darkroom, Carô Gervay, David Whiting, and Jonathan Blower.
(source: https://cream.ac.uk/publications/photoresearcher-no-41-the-darkroom-chemical-cultural-industrial/)
About the Editor
Sara Dominici is Senior Lecturer, Course Leader for the MA Art and Visual Culture, and Course co-Leader for the MA Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture and the MA Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture with Professional Experience at the University of Westminster. Dominici is a scholar of photographic history and visual culture with expertise in popular photographic practices from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Her current research focuses on two main areas, i.e., the history of the photographic darkroom, and the intertwined histories of camera technologies and modern forms of transport (i.e., trains, cycles, and motorcars).
(source: https://cream.ac.uk/people/sara-dominici/)
About the Journal
PhotoResearcher is a journal published twice a year by The European Society for the History of Photography. It was first published in 1990, featuring a guest editor in every issue.
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(source: http://www.eshph.org/journal/photoresearcher-no-11990/)
