December 9, 2015 at 20:00 h
Opening Event: Talk by Dana Kyndrová, Czech photographer
Venue: Foyer, Theater Bremen (Großes Haus), Goetheplatz 1-3, 28203 Bremen
Thursday, December 10, 2015
09:00 Introduction
9:30-12 Everyday Photography
Comments: Sarah Lemmen
09:30 MARIA ALINA ASAVEI (Prague): Forbidden Images? Witnessing and Remembering Socialist ‘Reality’ through Photographs in Romania
10:00 CRISTINA CUEVAS-WOLF (Los Angeles): The Contested Image of Everyday Socialism in Hungary
10:30 GILLES DE RAPPER, ANOUCK DURAND (Aix-Marseille): Intimacy and locality. Photographing small-scale power relations in Socialist Albania
14-17 (Un-)published Pictures of Power
Comments: Alexandra Oberlander
14:00 KATALIN BOGNAR (Budapest): Photographs left out of the newspapers (Hungary, 1947–1991)
14:30 STEFAN GUTH (Bern): Picturing Atomic-Powered Communism
15:00 DARIA ZAITSEVA (St. Petersburg): “Reporting without publishing”. Mainstream and marginal Soviet documentary photography strategies in the 1960-70s: the case of Valery Shchekoldin
Friday, December 11, 2015
9–12 Personalized Power: Leaders
Comments: Anja Tippner
09:00 SUSANNE SCHATTENBERG (Bremen): Picturing the General Secretary: L.I. Brezhnev and his photographer
09:30 JAKUB SZUMSKI (Warsaw): More like us. Poland’s 1970s new political style in photography
10:30 TANJA ZIMMERMANN (Leipzig): An early Home Story of Power: The Yugoslav Leader Josip Broz Tito in Press Photography from the 1940s to the 1980s
11:00 NADINE SIEGERT (Bayreuth): Mighty Images – On the political iconography in socialist Angola & Mozambique
14-17 Moving images: contacts
Comments: Inge Marszolek
14:00 ESZTER KISS (Budapest/Potsdam): Images of Hungary/Hungary’s Image – National and international socialist PR as teamwork
14:30 YVONNE ROBEL (Hamburg): Picturing spatial power? The visual construction of globality in the GDR during the 1950s
15:30 EVA PLUHAŘOVA-GRIGIENĖ (Berlin): On the circulation of photography across the Iron Curtain. The Czech photography critics, curators and editors Anna Fárová and Daniela Mrázková
16:00 ANNETTE VOWINCKEL (Potsdam): Photographic Nuisance. The Work of Stern-Photographers Thomas Höpker and Harald Schmitt in the GDR
Saturday, December 12, 2015
9-12 Disputed power: protest
Comments: Marcus Schonewald
09:00 MARTINA WINKLER (Bremen): Picturing Power: Images of the Invasion in Prague 1968
09:30 ISOTTA POGGI (Los Angeles): Budapest 1956: Photographs of Revolution between Politics and Art
10:00 ULRIKE HUHN (Bremen): Social Reportage Photography under Stalin? Possibilities and Limits of Ethnographic Fieldwork in late Stalinist Russia
12:30 Closing Discussion