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Olivier Richon

Email address:

olivier.richon@rca.ac.uk

Department:

Photography

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Expertise:

photographic practic, photography and literatur, surrealism and photography, still life as genre, art history and theory, theories of representation, allegory

Job title:

Professor and Head of Programme

Biography:

He has taught Photographic Studies at the Derby School of Art (1985 -1993) and at the University of Westminster (1993-1997). Since 1997, he is Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art , where he became a Professor in 2006. His photographic work investigates the artifice of Representation, mainly through the genre of the still life and animal portraiture. Research questions include the relation between the eye and other sense impressions; photography and literature; temporality and narrative forms in the still and the moving image. His work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of England; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Museum Folkwang, Essen; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nmore...

Qualifications:

1980 BA (Hons) Film and Photographic Arts. Polytechnic of Central London 1988 MPhil. Exoticism and Representation. Polytechnic of Central London

My Latest

Richon, Olivier, 2011, Journal Article, ‘Introduction: On literary images’ Photographies, 4 (3). pp. 5-15. ISSN 17540771
Richon, Olivier, 2010, Show, Exhibition or Event, Teaching Photography
Richon, Olivier, 2010, Book Section, Ellipsis In: Olivares, Rosa, (ed.) Mirada interior. Sociedad Estatal de Commemoraciones Culturales, Madrid, Spain, pp. 165-191. ISBN 978-84-92827-34-3
Richon, Olivier, 2010, Show, Exhibition or Event, Le Bestiaire Imaginaire
Richon, Olivier, 2011, Book Section, Mimetism and the Mouth In: Luxemburg, Rut Blees, (ed.) Hardcover. Black Dog, London, pp. 66-73. ISBN 978 1 907317 415
Richon, Olivier, 2011, Conference or Workshop, Fetish, Relic and Memory at Yingxiang Today (Shadow-Image today), Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, 13 - 14 October 2011. (In Press)
Richon, Olivier, 2011, Conference or Workshop, Art and Science - Perspectives for Art Academies at Vorsicht Wagnis (beware: risk), Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany, 9-11 Nov 2011. (Unpublished)
Richon, Olivier, 2011, Conference or Workshop, The Animal's Eye at The Animal Gaze returned Symposium, London Metropolitan University, 27-28 Oct 2011. (Unpublished)
Richon, Olivier, 2010, Journal Article, The Sophist and the Photograph Philosophy of Photography, 1 (1). pp. 29-34. ISSN 2040-3682
Richon, Olivier, 2009, Book Section, Artists talk about teaching In: Reardon, John, (ed.) ch-ch-ch-changes. Ridinghouse, London, pp. 302-311. ISBN 978-1-905464-13-5

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Walker Evans: Carey Ross's Bedroom	440	594
2	Aka Yagara. After Jun'ichiro Tanizaki	423	300
3	The Indifferent	345	562
4	Anima(l)	313	450
5	The Sophist and the Photograph	294	352
6	Artists talk about teaching	281	49
7	Mimetism and the Mouth	272	48
8	Fetish, Relic and Memory	270	60
9	Le Bestiaire Imaginaire	262	85
10	‘Introduction: On literary images’	261	52