考陶德開放時間 – 插曲 1, S6: 捕獲!

To celebrate the upcoming reopening of our gallery we are teaming up with our digitisation team, volunteers and students for our first Open Courtauld Hour of the season!

20th Century British photographer Anthony Kersting, the most prolific and widely travelled architectural photographer of his generation, will be the subject of the inaugural display in the new Project Space when The Courtauld Gallery reopens. The 1.1million photographs in the Conway Library – most of which have never been seen by the public – are currently undergoing a major volunteer-led digitisation project – supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund – which will put these images, including Kersting’s, into the public domain. Join us in previewing and traversing ’Kurdistan in the 1940s’, examining the materiality of these photographs, their digitisation and the gaining an insight into the stories, lives and people that only those connected to the project, the land and its subjects, can share.

For this hour we are delighted to be collaborating with Tom Bilson (Head of Digital Media at The Courtauld), Caterina Domeneghini (Postgraduate Scholar in the Humanities, Wolfson College, and recipient of an Oxford Micro Internship placement in The Conway Library, 六月 2021), Karla Iessa (Born in North Iraq and and now settled in the UK) and Phil Dimes (Courtauld Volunteer and Photographer). Tom will kick off the hour by introducing the digitisation project itself, Caterina will then reflect on her time at The Conway Library and think beyond ruins to give new insights into dealing with images of destruction and their restoration, Karla, whose hometown Qaraqosh is an ancient Assyrian city which was controlled by ISIS until 2016, will then talk about the value of the Kersting photos in terms of memory, family history, and share her own story and to round up Phil will share how and why he has walked and cycled in the footsteps of Tony Kersting, taking photographs to match Kersting’s own ones. The session will end with a panel discussion and give the audience the opportunity to ask questions to our speakers.

這個在線迷你係列將提供簡潔的一小時彈出講座包, 表演和詳細的對象研究課程，探索和慶祝我們的收藏, 藝術史研究, 策展和保護.

該系列將觸及相關問題——通過藝術史領域放大當代社會思維. These episodes will explore how the public, artists and galleries are adapting to a digital world, showcasing art historical research in light of this global pandemic and providing a platform for creative practice in the age of social distancing.

最重要的是, 因為藝術與所有人有關, 這些非正式會議將使與會者有機會訪問, 通過不同的視角參與和閱讀藝術和藝術史——通過重述隱藏的故事來改造和重新思考藝術史討論. 這些劇集將提供新的視角, 藝術實踐的新途徑, 通過影響我們所有人的主題來看待藝術並閱讀其歷史.

Open Courtauld Hour 由 Bloomberg Philanthropies 支持.