Levels of Life: Photography Imaging and the Vertical Perspective.Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionThis trans-disciplinary conference and exhibition investigates how images made on the vertical axis are encountered, interpreted, decoded, created and utilised, to explore the ways in which they have changed, or could change, the world.
Thursday 30th June 10:00 – 18:00 (conference) Friday 1st July Sat 2nd July
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More Information“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.” — Julian Barnes, Levels of Life. As discussed in Barnes’ book, when the French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, put his two passions — hot air ballooning and photography — together in the 1850s the first aerial picture of the earth came into view. Since then, the perpetual quest to reach further heights and greater distances has fuelled the human imagination and generated architectural, aeronautical and optical innovations that have radically altered human perception. 160 years on and the aerial view is ubiquitous, photography has expanded so that moving and still images from above are created by a wide range of increasingly autonomous machines, and many of our actions on the surface of the earth are controlled by, and intentionally designed to be seen from, this perspective. At the same time, the ability to look further down the vertical axis, to microscopic levels, has been extended through developments in areas such as microscopy and spectrometry. This conference and exhibition is organised by Daniel Alexander and Sara Knelman and is a collaboration with the Photography Programme at London College of Communication, the Photographers’ Gallery, and The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image. This event will take place at the Photographers Gallery on the 30th June and the London College of Communication on the 1st and 2nd July. It will also be streamed online. The full conference schedule is available at The Photographers Gallery website, and from the dropbox download link on this page. Conference and exhibition schedule can be downloaded from the dropbox link below: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cc5ea9n7tcwjxbe/AADYPsFiHSm_Pb6lfI5mAVita?dl=0 **please note your details will be passed onto photographers gallery. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
