25 to 28 August 1994, Lysebu Conference Centre, Oslo/NO
Among others, the following persons of our Society can be seen on this picture: Anna Aunt – National Institute for Historical Photography, Oslo (N), Eva Dahlmann – Curator, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm (SE), Giuliana Scimé – Art historian, Milano (I), Jean-René Beguin – Ministère de la Culture, Paris (F), Miguel Galmes – Head, Institut d’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya, Barcelona (E), William Main – Head, Center for Photography, Wellington (NZ), R. Derek Wood – Historian & compiler of ESHPh’s photohistorica 1993, Bromley (UK), Etsuo & Hideko Fujii – Photographic scientists, Tokio (J), Margaret Harker Farrand – President of the ESHPh, Croydon/Surrey (UK), Roger Erlandson – Head, National Institute for Historical Photography, Oslo (N), Armgard Schiffer – Landesmuseum Joanneum, Bild-und Tonarchiv, Graz (A), Anna Auer – Board of the Photographic Society of Vienna (A), Jens Jaeger – University Hamburg (G), Steven F. Joseph – Photo historian, Brussels (B), Roger Taylor – Curator, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford (UK), Helmut Kleinsteuber – Scientist at the Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Oldenburg (G), Karl Steinorth – Vice-President of the ESHPh, Head, Kodak PR Department, Stuttgart (G) David Faddy, University of Westminster, London (uk) Peter Schicht, Photographer, Berlin (g) Roy Green, Administrator of the ESHPh, Croydon (uk) Ingeborg Th. Leijerzapf, Riijks Universiteit, Leiden (nl) Christine de Naeyer, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (f) Melinda B. Parson, University of Memphis, Tennesse (usa) Leif Preus, Head, Preus Fotomuseum, Horten (n) Bernardo Riego, Universidad of Cantabri, Santander (E) Johan M. Swinnen, High Institution for Fine Arts-Flandres, Antwerp (b) Ritva Tähtinen, Head, The Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki (fin) Peter J. Agius, Thickets, Oxford (uk) Roger Kockaert, Photographic restaurator, Brussels (b) Johan Swinnen, Art historian, Antwerp (b) Vegard S. Halvorsen, Chairman, Norwegian Society for the History of Photography, Sentrum (N) Hans Christian Adam, Picture researcher, Göttingen (g)
25 August 1994
Roger Erlandsen, Director of the National Institute for Historical Photography, Oslo
»What a foreigner should know about the history of photography in Norway – a short introduction«
Session I: Current topics
Eva Klerck Gange, photographer, curator, Association of Art Photographers, Oslo
»The Norwegian photographer John Riise: cubism and surrealism«
Giuliana Scimé, professor, art historian, Milano
»Eberhard Schrammen and Toni von Haken: The Rediscovery of two Bauhaus masters«
Anna Auer, Board of the Photographic Society in Vienna
»Magic books and wishing-wand – A personal portrait of Josef Maria Eder (1855-1944)«
Eva Dahlman, Fotosekretariatet, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
»Bertha Valerius, Rosalie Sjøman and Lotten von Drüben – pioneers among the women photographers in Sweden«
Jean-René Beguin, Service des Achives Photographiques, Ministère Culturelle, Paris
»L’obsédant élément Sodium, ou quand le loup dévora le chien«
26 August 1994
Session II: Current topics
Melinda B. Parsons, University of Memphis, Tennessee
»Nature, social reform, and the ‘Elemental Purity’ of Northern Landscape: Eadward Steichen and Fritz Thaulow«
Arne Eggum, Curator, Edvard Munch Museum, Oslo
»Munch and Photograph«
27 August 1994
Session III: Main subject – Landscape photography
Margaret Harker Farrand, President of the ESHPh
Keynote: ‘Landscape photography: documentation or art?’
Roger Taylor, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
»‘Darkness and light’ – Victorian landscape in Britain 1839-1865«
Karl Steinorth, 1st Vice-President of the ESHPh, Stuttgart
»German landscapes taken by Theodor and Oskar Hofmeister in the beginning of this century«
Per Jonas Nordhagen, professor, Department of Art History, University of Bergen
»From national icons to tourist photography – Grand themes in the depiction of Norwegian scenery«
Henrik Dupont, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
»Aerial views as landscape photography – Examples from the Danish collections at the Royal Library Copenhagen«
William Main, Director of New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington
»Landscape photography in New Zealand«
Christine De Naeyer, art historian, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
»Belgian landscape through the eyes of photographic missions«
Francois Mechain, photographer, artist, Les Eglises d’ Argenteuil
»Le Paysage, une voie obligée ?«
28 August 1994
Session IV: Current topics
Hideko and Etsuo Fujii, photo-chemists, Tokyo
»Restoration of faded colour photographic images by GIS colour scanner«
Svante Warfvinge, Archivist and Chairman of the Swedish Society for the History of Photography, Karlskrona
»Adolf Söderström, Swedish pharmacist and photographer«
Virgilius Juadakis, Litauen Institute of Journalism, Vilnius University
»Nature in Lithuanian photojournalism 1904 – 1994«
Jens Jaeger, Hamburg
»Photographic societies in Britain in the 19th century«
R. Derek Wood, photo historian, Bromley, Kent
»Photocopying in January 1843: the treaty of Nanking«