Vernacular

photography
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

CONTENTS
1
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEME
VENACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY
2
POST-MORTEM OR MEMORIAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
3
FAMILY LIFE
4
COLLECTIVE MEMORY
5
AUTHOR
6
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK

Vernacular
photography
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

Invented in France and England in the first part

of the 19th Century, Photography was for a long time
stuck in the portrait studio where the upper classes went
to have their picture taken. Within months of
Daguerres 1839 announcement of his photographic
breakthrough in Paris, many amateurs began
experimenting with the daguerreotype process
capturing their members of their families in what would
be the first family photographs.
By the 1890s there had been a tremendous rise in
amateur photography with the arrival of smaller formats
and more simple cameras to use. The family album
was born, where visual fragments of daily life were
collected and preserved.
This exhibition will attempt to explore the genre of
vernacular photography. Submissions can be found,
appropriated, reinterpreted or the product of the artists
own traditional made photographs.

Vernacular
photography
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

Example of vernacular photography

Postmortem photography or memorial photography as it is also

known was a common practice in the 19th century. The photos
were kept to remember loved deceased family members.

Vernacular
photography
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

Emmit Gowin

Examples of vernacular photography

Emmet Gowin is a world re-known photographer whose first

main body of work focused on daily family life.

Vernacular
photography
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

Binh Danh

Examples of vernacular photography

Chlorophyll print and resin

Binh Danh is a contemporary artist appropriating iconic

Vietnam photos and printing them using his own alternative
photographic technique, to explore our collective memory of
war.

malin sjoberg
for and on behalf of
the photographic angle

This theme was researched and written on for the

The Photographic Angle by Malin Sjoberg, former assistant
to the coordinator of exhibitions for MAGNUM photos
Paris. M.Sjoberg is currently based in the UK and works
both as a practitioner, specialising in historic photographic
processes, and as a freelance photographic consultant
having studied photography at Rockport College Maine,
the Art Insistute of Boston and several workshops under
the tutelage of Scully & Osterman.

www.malin-sjoberg.com

how to submit
your work
from

open submission

25 August 2011

until

1st December 2011

Submitting work to become part of any of

tpas several touring exhibitions is simple and free!
Simply visit our submit to exhibit select, in this
case, Vernacular Photography and fill out the
relevant fields -should you have any queries please
either email us directly or call us via the contact
p a g e . We l o o k f o r w a r d t o s e e i n g n e w
interpretations on this theme!

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