[Commlist] CFP - Workshop on Picture Post Magazine

/CALL FOR PAPERS/

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*/Picture Post /**(1938-57): Genesis, History & Legacy of a Photo-Magazine*

One-day workshop, Cardiff (UK), Friday 13 June 2025

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to share details of this call for papers ahead of a 
research workshop concerning the landmark British photo-magazine, 
/Picture Post /(1938-57).

/Picture Post/was launched in the era of the Spanish Civil War and the 
Popular Front. Conceived for Hulton Press by Stefan Lorant (a Hungarian 
editor exiled from Nazi Germany), /Picture Post/ had a transnational 
staff and a global outlook. It was the leading British example of an 
international phenomenon – the birth of photojournalism and the 
photo-essay. The equivalent of /Life /in the US and /Paris-Match /in 
France, the magazine achieved circulation figures of 1.7m.

To mark the opening of a major exhibition at Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum 
Wales, we will be hosting a one-day public workshop bringing together an 
international cohort of researchers, curators, archivists and librarians 
to discuss the development and impact of /Picture Post/.

We invite proposals for 15-minute papers or panels of 3 to 4 
contributors. Please send a title, abstract (250 words) and short 
biography (150 words) to (allbesont /at/ cardiff.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(allbesont /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)>.

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*Deadline for CFP*: _Friday 14 March 2025_

The event is co-hosted by the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History 
(School of Journalism, Media & Culture, Cardiff University) and 
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. It is organised by Dr Tom Allbeson 
(Reader in Media & Photographic History, Cardiff University) and Dr 
Bronwen Colquhoun (Senior Curator of Photography, Amgueddfa Cymru - 
Museum Wales).


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