April 2008. Talk and live installation about photographers in fiction from 1850 to the present day
Presented with Richard Warburton at Project Space Leeds, this illustrated lecture included accounts of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables , Cortazar's Blow-Up and Paul Theroux's Picture Palace as well as a poem by Lewis Carroll and a satirical story by Champfleury.
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Hand-coloured Daguerreotype of unknown sitter c.1850