John Tagg, distinguished professor of art history, recently co-organized an international conference on “Photography and Britishness” that was held Nov. 4-5, at the Yale Center for British Art, in conjunction with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London and the Huntingdon in California. Tagg opened the conference, which is one of the main focal points of his semester at Yale as the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Visiting Scholar.
Tagg will also present the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture, titled “’Knocking around between money, sex, and boredom’: Walker Evans in Havana and New York” Nov. 30, at the Yale Center for British Art.
The new online refereed journal, British Art Studies, will publish a conversation about photography and crisis that Tagg curated, including responses by a dozen international scholars and photographers to his original provocation piece.