Staying With The Question
OUAH.FM is a collection of audio resources produced by the OU Arts & Humanities Forum at the University of Oklahoma. OUAH.FM Podcasts include Staying With the Question (our topical podcast), New Books and Projects (featuring new books and major projects by OU Faculty), and Forum Features for special events and lectures.
Staying With The Question
Forum Features: Catherine Clark - Paris Visible and the Photographic Past
In celebration of the Forum Annual 2023-24 Theme "Visible," the OU Arts & Humanities Forum welcomed Dr. Catherine Clark (MIT) for a Marquee Lecture in the "Paris Visible" Distinguished Lecture Series. This lecture reflects on Catherine Clark’s longstanding engagement with the photographic history of Paris. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the municipality invested heavily in creating and making accessible large collections of photographs in the hopes that they would serve the needs of future scholars. How have these efforts shaped history as it has been written since? In other words, do photographs make the past visible and, if so, how? The talk will draw on Clark’s research on the history of photographic history and street photography in the French capital as well as her forays into the utility of Artificial Intelligence for rendering the past not just visible but legible. You can find out more about Dr. Clark's work at https://history.mit.edu/people/catherine-clark/