Ken Russell: Sound and Vision
Talk by World-Renowned Photographer Stuart Franklin
Talk by World-Renowned Photographer Stuart Franklin
The M.A. in Film Studies offered through the University of Malta’s Faculty of Arts is proud to announce a public talk entitled ‘Ken Russell: Sound and Vision’, which is going to be delivered on 28 November 2019 by the world-renowned photographer and academic Stuart Franklin, former president of Magnum Photos, of which he is a full member since 1989. He is also a Professor of Documentary Photography at Volda University College, Norway.
The public talk will be held at the Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre, Room 117, Msida Campus, at 17:00, and will be open to the general public.
Prof. Franklin will be discussing the role of music and photography in Ken Russell’s cinema and television fiction, examining excerpts from a range of career highlights, including ‘Dante’s Inferno’ (1967), ‘Song of Summer: Delius’ (1968), ‘The Music Lovers’ (1971), and ‘Mahler’ (1974).
Prof. Franklin authored and co-authored several books, among which ‘The Documentary Impulse’ (Phaidon Press, 2016), and was awarded a Doctorate in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2002. From 1980 until 1985, he worked with Agence Presse Sygma in Paris. During that time he photographed the civil war in Lebanon, unemployment in Britain, famine in Sudan and the Heysel Stadium disaster. In 1989, Prof. Franklin photographed the uprising in Tiananmen Square and shot one of the Tank Man photographs, first published in ‘Time Magazine’, as well as widely documenting the uprising in Beijing, which earned him a World Press Photo Award. His forthcoming book, ‘Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures’, is expected to be published in May 2020.
To get to know all about the M.A. in Film Studies access the details on the UM website, Facebook page, or contact the course co-ordinator, Prof. Gloria Lauri-Lucente.
To get to know all about the M.A. in Film Studies access the details on the UM website, Facebook page, or contact the course co-ordinator, Prof. Gloria Lauri-Lucente.