INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Szathmari, Pioneer Photographer, and his Contemporaries
The International Conference Szathmari, Pioneer Photographer, and his Contemporaries, organised on the artist’s bicentennial anniversary, was hosted by the Romanian Academy and the G. Oprescu Institute of Art History.
Carol Pop de Szathmari (1812-1887) was an outstanding artist based in Bucharest who made a brilliant career as both a painter and photographer. Due to his skills in various media and genres of the visual arts (i.e. water color, oil painting, lithography, oleography), he eventually became the official artist for the Romanian ruling princes beginning with Alexandru Ioan I (1863). Carol I, who followed him on the Romanian throne, duly encouraged and generously supported the skills of his court painter and photographer who, in that period (1866 until his death), attained the apex of his career.
To complement the conference, an exhibition entitled Szathmari’s Workshop – From Drawing to Chromolithography was shown in the Theodor Pallady Gallery of the Romanian Academy from 14 to 24 May. The conference was concluded with a guided tour through Szathmari’s Bucharest following his steps to the different civil and religious monuments he immortalized on his sensitized glass plates.
Coordinator: ADRIAN-SILVAN IONESCU
Day 1
Photo album
Opening of the exhibition Szathmari’s Workshop – From Drawing to Chromolitography, Theodor Pallady Gallery ( Library of the Romanian Academy)
Military review dating from the period of Romania's Independence War (1877-78), staged by the "6 Dorobantzi" Association (Romanian Academy Gardens)
Aula Magna of the Romanian Academy
Welcome
address:
Acad. RĂZVAN THEODORESCU
Keynote lecture
Prof. LARRY SCHAAF (independent
historian of photography, Baltimore,
- Silver from Sunshine. The
Photographic World of Szathmari
Dr. MONIKA FABER (Photoinstitut Bonartes,
Vienna, Austria):
- Industriefotografie im Vielvölkerstaat: Ein Beispiel aus dem Banat
Dr.
SILVANA RACHIERU (University
of Bucharest/Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul):
- From Family Portraits to Imperial
Propaganda: Photography in the Ottoman Empire
G.
Oprescu Institute of Art History
Moderator:
Dr. IOANA VLASIU
ADRIANA
DUMITRAN (PhD student, National Library of Romania):
- Advertising graphic of Carol Szathmari’s
photographic cards
CRISTIAN GRAURE (Banat Museum, Timişoara):
- A new vision on light. The 19th century Banat through the lens
of the stereoscopic camera
LUCIAN CIUPEI (PhD student, Institute
for Doctoral Studies, Babeş-Boliay University, Cluj-Napoca):
- Political image in Carol Popp de Szathmari's vision
ALFRED
SCHUPLER (master student, National University of Arts, Bucharest):
- Veress Ferenc (1st of
September 1832, Cluj Napoca
- 3rd of April 1916, Cluj Napoca)
ADRIAN STAN (Prahova County Museum of History and
Archeology, Ploieşti):
- Personalities from Ploieşti in photographs produced in
Carol Popp de Szathmari's studio
Projection of the documentary The Eyewitness (2002, directed by Gabriel Cobasnian, screenplay and starring Adrian-Silvan Ionescu)
Day 2
Photo album
Aula Magna of the Romanian Academy
Moderator: Dr. MONIKA FABER
Dr. IOANA VLASIU (G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, Bucharest):
- Photography as meeting-place of modernities. Szathmari revisited by Ion
Grigorescu
CĂTĂLINA MACOVEI (Library of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest):
- Carol Pop de Szathmari. From photography to photochromation and oleography
Dr. RUXANDRA DREPTU ( Spiru Haret University, Bucharest):
- Szathmari, the painter-photographer of the far-away
HORIA VLADIMIR ŞERBĂNESCU (PhD student, National Military Museum “King Ferdinand I", Bucharest):
- Carol Szathmari, military photographer
MOLNAR ATTILA (PhD student, Society for the Transilvanian Museum of Photography, Miercurea Ciuc):
- The hidden portret of Szathmari
Dr. RUXANDA BELDIMAN (G. Oprescu
Institute of Art History, Bucharest):
- Civil and ecclesiastical architecture in Carol Pop de
Szathmari's photography
Visit to the Prints Cabinet of the Library of the Romanian Academy for a presentation of selected
photographs by Carol Pop de Szathmari.
Welcome: Cătălina Macovei, head of the Cabinet of Prints.
G. Oprescu Institute of Art History
Moderator: Dr. RUXANDA BELDIMAN
NATALIA BANGĂLĂ (Library of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest):
- A
selection of pictures from Carol Pop de Szathmari's albums “România” to be
found in the Prints Cabinet of the Library of the Romanian Academy
EMANUEL BĂDESCU (Library of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest):
- Carol Szathmari pictures from the Prints
Cabinet of the Library of the Romanian Academy
ÖRDÖG RÓBERT (collector, Miercurea Ciuc):
- Auction prices for Szathmari’s photos
Dr. ADRIAN-SILVAN
IONESCU (G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, Bucharest):
- Carol Pop de Szathmari and Ulysse de Marsillac: two destinies, one
friendship
Cotroceni National Museum: visit of the
retrospective art exhibition Carol
Pop de Szathmari, painter and photographer.
Welcome: Adina Renţea, Director of Cotroceni National
Museum.
Day 3
A guided tour of Szathmari's Bucharest. Expert guide: Dr. Ruxanda Beldiman.
Photographs: Sorin Chițu
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