History and Theory of Photography (9 Oct 20)

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Third Annual Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography

The Developing Room Working Group Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Please join us for the Developing Room’s third annual Graduate Student Colloquium on the Histo- ry and Theory of Photography. A full schedule of events is included below.

This event will feature presentations by Ph.D. candidates who are working on dissertation topics in which photography — its histories and theories — play a central role. Presenters will share a chapter or a section from their dissertation, along with an account of how that chapter/section fits within their larger project. The presentation format involves a formal 25-minute presentation followed by 25 minutes of discussion. The Developing Room invites a large audience of faculty and students in order to ensure a rich conversation and to build a constituency from which papers can be drawn in subsequent years. In the last two years, our event has brought together an international group of researchers working across a wide range of topics related to photography.

This year’s respondent will be Ellen Handy, a historian, curator and critic of photography and mod- ern art. She teaches courses in the history of photography, art of the United States, art criticism, and research methods in art history at The City College of New York. Previously, she was Execu- tive Curator of Visual Collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the Univer- sity of Texas, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a regular columnist for Arts Magazine. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, and her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her research interests include landscape and urban imagery in photography and other mediums, inter- sections of art and science in 19th century photography, women and photography, connoisseur- ship in photography, printed ephemera, and early modernism in visual and literary culture in the United States.

More information about the presenters, including their bios, paper titles, and abstracts, can be found on the event website at www.developingroom.com/events.

PROGRAM

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Friday, October 9, 2020 Eastern Time

10:00am Introduction

10:15am Kaitlin Booher, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Color Sells: The Creation and Reception of Color Fashion Photographs in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, 1932–45

10:40am Discussion

11:10am Lauren Graves, Boston University The Neighbor: Helen Levitt’s imagined landscapes of East Harlem

11:35am Discussion

12:05pm Lunch Break (1 hr 25 min)

1:30pm Colin Young, Yale University Capturing Absence: Indigenous Disappearance and Desert Emptiness in the First Photographic Albums of the Prairies and Pampas

1:55pm Discussion

2:25pm Molly Kalkstein, University of Arizona The Discerning Eye: Materiality and the 1970s American Market for Photographs

2:55pm Discussion

3:25pm Break (10 min)

3:35pm Kathryn Poindexter, University of Southern California Aaron Siskind’s Photographs as Rosenberg’s Imaginary Museum

4:00pm Discussion

4:30-5:00pm General Discussion led by Dr. Ellen Handy, The City College of New York

The event is free and open to the public. Please send any questions to [email protected] com. More information about the Developing Room can be found at www.developingroom.com.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining via Zoom.

Sponsors: Art History Department, Rutgers University

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Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University

Reference: CONF: History and Theory of Photography (9 Oct 20). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 29, 2020 (accessed Sep 24, 2021), .

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