Peter Turner Memorial Lecture 2009

'The Photographic Medium in a Post Medium Age'

5.00pm, Saturday 21 November 2009, followed by light refreshments.

The annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture will this year be presented by Prof. Anne Marsh - visiting from Monash University, Melbourne.Drawing on research for her recent book LOOK! Contemporary Australian Photography, Marsh will explore some of the issues that concern photography in the 21st Century. She will address critiques of the post medium condition and explore the influence of digital technologies and photo-installation through the works of several Australian art photographers who engage with the medium of photography in various ways.

About Anne Marsh:

Dr Anne Marsh is Professor of Theory and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University. Her latest book LOOK! Contemporary Australian Photography will be launched late 2009. She is author of Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph (2006), The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (2003) and Body and Self: Performance Art in Australian, 1969-1992  (1993). Anne’s research has been generously funded by the Australia Council Research (2005, 2009, 2009), and the Australia Council (2008).

About the Peter Turner Memorial Lecture:

Each year the College of Creative Arts brings an internationally significant photographic historian, theorist or artist to Wellington to deliver the annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture. The lecture has been established in the memory of the late Peter Turner – photographic historian, curator, author, editor, publisher and teacher. Associated with the memorial lecture is a Masters scholarship in Peter Turner’s name in Documentary Photography at the Massey University School of Fine Arts. The scholarship and memorial lecture series were launched in 2008 and are supported by a funds appeal. Donations to the fund may be made on the evening.

RSVP (acceptances only)

By: Noon Weds 18 November 2009
To: Maree Buutveld, email m.buutveld@massey.ac.nz with "Anne Marsh" in the subject line
Phone: 04 801 5799 x62300