Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation

This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural
Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A.
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Supported by TORCH through
the Humanities Cultural Programme. Join us for an online
in-conversation with Prof Geoffrey Batchen and Dr Lena Fritsch,
discussing the work of pioneering British photographer and botanist
Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Her innovative use of new photographic
technologies linked art and science, and exemplified the potential
of photography in books. Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of Art
History at the University of Oxford and Dr Lena Fritsch is the
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum,
University of Oxford. This talk accompanies the 2020 Photo Oxford
festival, Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen.
Biographies: Geoffrey Batchen is professor of History of Art at the
University of Oxford. His books include Burning with Desire: The
Conception of Photography (1997), Each Wild Idea: Writing,
Photography, History (2001), Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless
Photograph (2016), and Apparitions: Photography and Dissemination
(2018). Dr Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary
Art at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Her monographs
on photography include Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese
Photography since 1945 (English version with Thames & Hudson /
Japanese version with Seigensha 2018), The Body as a Screen:
Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s (Georg Olms 2011), and
Yasumasa Morimuras Self-Portrait as Actress: Überlegungen zur
Identität (VdM 2008).