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Either/Or - Either/And - Everything: A history of photography in the 21st Century

WHERE
Gallerie d'Italia - Torino
WHEN
16/10/2025

18:00 - 19:00

RECIPIENTS

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In 2004, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, was first published and became a key text in charting the rise of photography as an undisputed art form in the 21st century. Published in fourteen languages, and now in the 4th edition (published in 2020), it has been an introduction to photography for a generation of art photographers across the world. This lecture by the book’s author, curator Charlotte Cotton, focuses on the evolution of photography as contemporary art and a cultural force over the lifetime of her book. 

The event will be held in English

Charlotte Cotton. Biography

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Charlotte Cotton

Charlotte Cotton is a curator, writer and creative consultant who has explored photographic culture for over twenty-five years. She has held positions including curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and curator-in-residence at Katonah Museum of Art, NY; ICP, NY; and Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles. She was the founding Artistic Director of the Tasweer Photo Festival, Qatar from 2019 - 2024.
She is the author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art, first published in 2004. Cotton has curated prescient exhibitions and international biennials with artist-led themes in contemporary photography. Her Photography is Magic Daegu Photo Biennial in South Korea (2012) and book (2015) surveys over eighty artists whose photographic practices shape the possibilities of our contemporary, Postinternet image environment.
Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self addresses the complex intersections of our rights to be seen and heard while claiming the privilege of privacy. The inaugural exhibition was held at the ICP, NY (2016-17) and published as a reader of reflections by over thirty artists and cultural thinkers in 2018. In 2022, she curated the touring exhibition Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum, first shown at ICP, NY.

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Free entry subject to availability

Booking advised (click here) from October 2.