The Nonlinear History of Photography

Friday, July 10 at at 12 pm EST • 9 am PST • 5 pm GMT

Event held via Zoom • Registration Link

Photography Network membership is required to attend.

Please join us on July 10 at 12 PM EST as Hernease Davis discusses approaching teaching the history of photography through a nonlinear lens. 

Abstract:

Acknowledging that the invention of photography developed within a moving world, in the midst of ongoing political projects, is a necessary foundation to understand this medium’s everyday significance. Davis’s approach to photographic history is informed by scholarship that contextualizes photography within socio-political and colonial realities. When she teaches, she wants students to uncover how images work in society and how that is tied to power dynamics that formed centuries before photography was ever invented.

Speaker Bio:

Hernease Davis is a photo-based artist, educator and curator whose practice is spurred by her curiosity about process, one’s psychological nature and the meaningful connections made possible through art when individual complexities are acknowledged and welcomed. In her art practice, Hernease uses photography, crochet and sound to create multi-sensorial installations that explore complex notions of empathy. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., including the International Center of Photography, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Transformer Station/ Cleveland Museum of Art and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Hernease has taught graduate photo courses at the Visual Studies Workshop, Bard College and the New School. Hernease is an Assistant Curator at the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW), and the manager of VSW’s long-running artist residency program, the Project Space.