"Photography and the Art of Social Commentary" as part of Photo x Photo series of talks at Alliance Francaise, 72, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 24th October 2011
Time : 6:30 pm
Event Details : Alliance française de Delhi is proud to present the initiative Photo x Photo – a series of talks based on Contemporary Photography Practices in India. Conceived as a space for alternative discussions & exhibitions, it will host photographers, curators, critics and enthusiasts eager to share their ideas about the medium, in constructive and critical ways. The energy behind the Photo platform is geared towards raising levels of appreciation within and nurturing connections across various practitioners – students/teachers/researchers in photography/ lovers of visual arts, as well as the general public.
The unrestrained voice of an image finds depth and clarity when it is examined as a composite, a site for exposing as much as censoring its subject. Photography shifts its allegiances from being a testimony - a tale of events - to that of an art object, as much as it produces a corpus of desires in its viewers. Photographers, whether they are journalists, documenters or ‘art practitioners’ dealing with a conceptual field of references, have in one form or another, made a social commentary through their work.
The following presentations will be explorations of how commentary and visual communication intersect in unison, or at times tangled and contradictory ways. Especially when images are used in a photo-journalistic sense, there is always a text that also provides observations and annotations that directs the interpretation of the image. How then do photographers evolve a unique language of their own that may represent not only their vision, but the plea of the subject being captured?
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Entry : Free
For more information on the exhibition and talks, please contact: photoreader1@gmail.com
For more information on the exhibition and talks, please contact: photoreader1@gmail.com
Place : M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003
Landmark : Next to Annexe building of India International Centre
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market' & 'Jor Bagh'
The unrestrained voice of an image finds depth and clarity when it is examined as a composite, a site for exposing as much as censoring its subject. Photography shifts its allegiances from being a testimony - a tale of events - to that of an art object, as much as it produces a corpus of desires in its viewers. Photographers, whether they are journalists, documenters or ‘art practitioners’ dealing with a conceptual field of references, have in one form or another, made a social commentary through their work.
The following presentations will be explorations of how commentary and visual communication intersect in unison, or at times tangled and contradictory ways. Especially when images are used in a photo-journalistic sense, there is always a text that also provides observations and annotations that directs the interpretation of the image. How then do photographers evolve a unique language of their own that may represent not only their vision, but the plea of the subject being captured?
Related Events : Arts | Talks
"Photography and the Art of Social Commentary" as part of Photo x Photo series of talks at Alliance Francaise, 72, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 24th October 2011
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