Vancouver — Washington State University Vancouver presents “After the Image: Photography, Text and History in Flandrin’s Casablanca” at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Multimedia Classroom Building, Room 6, 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is free beginning at 6:45 p.m.
Patricia Goldsworthy will trace Marcelin Flandrin’s transformation from an archetypal French colonial photographer to a part of Moroccan heritage through an analysis of Flandrin’s colonial career. Moroccan scholars and museums have begun to consider Flandrin’s images as an unparalleled portrait of Moroccan history and identity.
Goldsworthy is assistant professor of transnational Europe and Middle East history at Western Oregon University.
