Join Sierra College Photography Professor Randy Snook for this interactive presentation on the history and cultural as well as personal meaning of family photographs.
As we celebrate the 180th birthday of the public announcement of a viable photographic process (January of 1839), this is an ideal time to discuss what family photographs have meant to the various generations, including our own. We will weave in the writings of Roland Barthes, photographic history and our own experiences with family photographs. For this presentation/discussion you are encouraged to bring a few old photographs. The photographs will be used as a starting point to discuss how and why family photographs have been taken during the last 180 years, what the photographs meant when they were captured and the meaning they have for us now. These images could be anything from tintypes to Polaroids to faded color prints.
Professor Randy Snook teaches in the Photography Department at Sierra College where he teaches a variety of courses including photo history and 19th century photographic processes.
Join us for 6:30 p.m. refreshments care of Starbucks and the program from 7 to 8:15 p.m.