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Art Study

From Documentary Photography Towards a Committed Photography: Notes on Politics of Photographic Representation

Details
Category:
Art Study
Dates:
Sep 01, 2020
Artists:
By award-winning documentary photographer, Steve Cagan
Location:
Virtual Lecture Series
Sponsored by:
AIIR
Supported by:
Aicon Contemporary

About

Vasl Artists’ Association invited interested participants to join a Zoom talk with award-winning documentary photographer, Steve Cagan.

The Lecture ‘From Documentary Photography Towards a Committed Photography: Notes on the Politics of Photographic Representation’ focused on how photography has a great power in convincing one that it is telling the truth. In this session, we looked at some challenges, such as social and ethical obligations imposed by the very strength of the medium on photographers who want to document social conditions and contribute to compaigns for change, especially while communicating across cultural borders.

Steve Cagan has carried out major projects in Latin America and industrial towns in USA over extended periods of time. His work explores strength and dignity in everyday struggles of grassroot people.

Steve has been a professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey; Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA; Universidad de El Salvador and Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany and is frequent speaker at national and international universities and institutions. His book, This Promise Land, El Salvador, won the 1991 Book of the Year Award of Association for Humanist Sociology. His latest book, with artist Mary Kelsey, appears in two versions, The Prince of Gold in English, and El Percio der Oro in Spanish.

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