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Day 1: Thursday, February 25, 2016
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center

Day 2: Friday, February 26, 2016
9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Robert C. Ritchie Auditorium, The Huntington

Introductory Remarks and Session 1: Photographic Objectivity?

Introduction: Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute

Session Chair: Costanza Caraffa, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut

"Shared Vocabularies of Modernity: Photography, Archives, and the Paradigm of Objectivity"
Joan M. Schwartz, Queen's University, Ontario

Session 1: Photographic Objectivity? (Continued)

Session Chair: Costanza Caraffa, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut

"In Search of a True Likeness: Sir William Stirling Maxwell and the Photography of Art"
Hilary Macartney, University of Glasgow

"Documenting the War: Life Magazine's Coverage of World War II"
Melissa Renn, Harvard Business School

Discussion

Session 2: Using Photographs

Session Chair: Virginia Heckert, J. Paul Getty Museum

"An Archaeology of Seeing: Toward a Unified Theory of User Perspectives on Digitized Photographs"
Paul Conway, University of Michigan

"Personal and Institutional Photo Archives: Changing Subjectivities"
Glenn Willumson, University of Florida

Discussion

Introductory Remarks and Session 3: Series and Archives

Introduction: Laura Stalker, The Huntington, and Jennifer Watts, The Huntington

Session Chair: Anne Blecksmith, The Huntington

"The (Not So Private) Photo Archives—The Photography of Art and Series of Popular Gallery Albums in the 1860s"
Friederike Maria Kitschen, Gerda Henkel Stiftung

"To Make a Case: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Archival Installations at Fenway Court"
Casey Riley, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Session 3: Series and Archives (Continued)

Session Chair: Anne Blecksmith, The Huntington

"Photographic Albums as Archives of Palestinian History"
Issam Nassar, Illinois State University

Discussion

Session 4: Photographic Evidence?

Session Chair: Jennifer Watts, The Huntington

"The Photograph as Historical Evidence in the Digital Age"
Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University

"Accidental Archives: The Elusive Visual Image in the Writing of History"
Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University

Session 4: Photographic Evidence? (Continued)

Session Chair: Jennifer Watts, The Huntington

"The View from Everywhere: Objectivity and the Photographic Archive"
Kelley Wilder, De Montfort University, Leicester

Discussion

Closing Remarks