As a curator and writer focusing on the photographic image, Max Houghton intends to make visible the racist and patriarchal forcefields that surrounded and shaped the birth of photography, and to notice the ways in which they prevail, many of which have been brought into sharp focus by the current pandemic. The role of the image in determining personhood has a long and violent history; technologies of surveillance have shaped who is seen, how, and by whom. Through the process best described as visuality, certain bodies have been broken, brutalized, ignored, or rendered invisible. Such appearances and disappearances are the theme of this talk, which will take the form of a visual essay, or image-text. 

Learn more and register here: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/composite-bodies-max-houghton