History of Photography pre-conference workshop
$40.00 – $45.00
Description
This workshop will survey photography’s major technical developments since its invention in the early nineteenth century, and examine how photography has been used and understood by practitioners over the centuries.
Instructor: Sharon Murray is a PhD candidate in Art History at Concordia University specializing in photographic history and theory. She has published articles in Archivaria, Ceil Variable magazine, and the Journal of Canadian Studies, and a chapter in the book, Depicting Canada’s Children. Now based in Halifax, Sharon teaches courses on the history photography at NSCAD University. She is also serves on the Board of Photopolis: The Halifax Festival of Photography, and has organized national and international conferences, symposia, and lecture series both here and in Montreal. Sharon recently completed a contract with the Halifax Municipal Archives where she scanned and created descriptive records for thousands of the archive’s photographs.
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