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Photographic interiors: Between Staging and Documentation
Intérieurs photographiques : entre mise en scène et documentation
Published on Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Abstract
A one day symposium on the roles and practices associated with photography and printed images within private interiors and domestic life, between staging and documentation
Announcement
Presentation
Along with other printed image technologies, photography is a major component of the ordinary visual environment that papers domestic surfaces. In addition, it is a privileged way of documenting interiors. Living spaces prove to be the locus of the life of images. Following both images and the practices that they are associated with around the interior, is a means of thinking out discontinuities but also juxtapositions and porosities between private and public, family genealogy and political affiliation, the massification of images and the singularity of lives.
Program
9h00 : Welcome
9h15-9h45 : Introduction
9h45-11h45 Narrative Construction and the Staging of the Self
- Melody Davis (Smithsonian Senior Fellow, the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History, Professor Emerita of Art History, Russell Sage College) The Construction of Domestic Selfhood in Stereoscopic Narratives from the Underwood and Underwood Collection of the National Museum of American History
- Giulia Paoletti (Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of Virginia, Visiting Associate Professor (25-26), Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University) The Non-Linearity of Photographic Walls
- Ondine Duché (Doctorante HAR - Université Paris Nanterre) Living Space, Festive Space: Domestic Photographic Practices in Student Partying Culture Modération : Ece Zerman
12h00-13h30 : DÉJEUNER
13h30-16h00 SESSION 2 Appropriating Interiors
- Barbara Bessac (enseignante-chercheuse à NYU London) Imagining the chambre de bonne: a Fragmentary Iconography for an Out-of-sight Interior
- Philippe Artières (DR, IRIS, CNRS-EHESS) At the Old Folks’… Inside Private and Institutional Homes for the Elderly, France 1960-1970
- Léo Bulliard (Doctorant FNS, Université de Neuchâtel) Inside the Hut of a Swiss ‘missionary lady’: a European, Feminine Bubble in Colonial Territory
- Anne Monjaret (ethnologue, Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique (CNRS-EHESS) Iconographic Presences in Labourers’ Workshops. Interior Views for a Photographic mise en abyme
Modération : Manuel Charpy
16h15-18h15 : SESSION 3 Fragile Interiors: Traces and Archives
- Hoda Nedaeifar (University of Toronto) Tilted Traces: Bahman Jalali’s Photograph of Khorramshahr in 1982
- Katerina Seraïdari (Chercheur associée au Centre d’Anthropologie de Toulouse, CAS) The Bulgarian Skull and the Portrait of Thérèse: Photographic Interiors on the Battlefront (1917–1918)
- Sandra Križić Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb) Photographs on the Walls of Temporary Homes: Learning from Vernacular Snapshots
Modération : Éliane de Larminat
Conclusions
Subjects
Places
- galerie Colbert, salle Vasari - INHA, 2 rue Vivienne
Paris, France (75002)
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Tuesday, April 07, 2026
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Information source
- Manuel Charpy
courriel : manuel [dot] charpy [at] inha [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 .
To cite this announcement
Manuel Charpy, « Photographic interiors: Between Staging and Documentation », Study days, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58079/15xlz
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Manuel Charpy
