Conference: ‘What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth’ at The International Center of Photography

 

 

Fazal Sheikh. The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan (Abdul Aziz holding a photograph of his brother, Mula Abdul Hakim) 1997

 

CONFERENCE
What is Real? Photography and the Politics of Truth

“This conference brings together renowned photographers, artists, writers, curators, and scholars in a series of panels and conversations:
- Redefining Documentary: The State of Documentary Photography Today
- Art versus Document: An (Un)comfortable Union?
- Public/Private: Community in the Digital Age
- Who Needs Truth Anyway? The Uses and Ethics of Documentary

Participants include Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Nayland Blake, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Y. Levin, Maria Lind, Susan Meiselas, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Brian Wallis, and others.”

 
The International Center of Photography 
Presents A Two-Day Symposium 
to Examine The Changing Nature of Documentary Practice.

 

Fri. Dec. 12 2008 6–10 pm 
Sat. Dec. 13 2008 9–5 pm

 

TheTimesCenter
242 West 41st Street
New York City

 

http://www.icp.org/events

Europeana: connecting cultural heritage – digital paintings, books, films and archives

 

 

“Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive – is a 2-year project that began in July 2007. It will produce a prototype website giving users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. The prototype will be launched in November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media.

 

The digital content will be selected from that which is already digitised and available in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The prototype aims to have representative content from all four of these cultural heritage domains, and also to have a broad range of content from across Europe. The interface will be multilingual. Initially, this may mean that it is available in French, English and German, but the intention is to develop the number of languages available following the launch.”

 

 

See the video that takes a trip through the kind of thing you can find on Europeana. See the new look and download the demo ppt. http://dev.europeana.eu/home.php

 

Can’t wait for the real thing!