Mono 68 Photography & Memory event
Published on Mon 16 Feb 2015
Mono 68: One city, One month, One camera
Photographs by Phil Thomson, Dundee, November 1968
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee
Friday 6 March at 6pm
Photography and Memory – a series of short talks followed by a discussion exploring the role of photography in capturing Dundee and other cities, and how our memories and our ideas about architecture are shaped by photographic images.
The event will start in the Lamb Gallery with an introduction by Caroline Brown (Deputy Archivist at the University of Dundee). We will then move into Baxter Suite Room 1.36 for four presentations:
- Journalist and author Norman Watson will discuss some of the earliest photographic images of Dundee.
- , Architecture lecturer and Deputy Dean of the School of the Environment, will explore the ways that architecture was captured by film and photography around 1968, contrasting the architects’ own imagery with that of other photographers and film-makers.
- , director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research, will discuss the role of nostalgia in looking at past photographs, something that has been very apparent in the reactions to the exhibition and the Mono 68 Facebook page.
- Finally we are delighted that artist and designer Phil Thomson will be paying a return visit to Dundee to discuss the photographs in the exhibition and his interest in capturing information and stories about them as part of a project he calls nostaphonics.
Attendance is free and there is no need to book – just meet in the Lamb Gallery.
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The exhibition runs until March and is open Mon-Fri 09.30-20.30 Sat 09.30-16.30.