THE HANDBOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES
THE HANDBOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES
Edited byGilPasternak
First published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic
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To my past, present, and future students
CONTENTS
Gil Pasternak
Gil Pasternak
Marta Braun
Douglas Nickel
Melissa Miles
Costanza Caraffa
Jae Emerling
Gil Pasternak
Luc Pauwels
Ben Burbridge
Daniel Rubinstein
Elizabeth Edwards
Christina Riggs
Gil Pasternak
Gil Pasternak
Jennifer Tucker
Paul Frosh
Sarah Parsons
Annebella Pollen
Martin Hand
Gil Pasternak
jane Lydon
Stephen Sheehi
Oliver Moore
Eva Pluhaov-Grigien
Darren Newbury
Louis Kaplan
Gil Pasternak
Margaret Denny
Thierry Gervais
Susan A. Crane
Joan M. Schwartz
Martha Langford
David M. Frohlich
Guide
MartaBraun teaches at Ryerson University and is Director of its graduate program in Film+Photography Preservation and Collections Management. She is author of Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey 1830-1904 (1992), Eadweard Muybridge (2010), and the children's book Muybridge and the Riddle of Locomotion (2013). Her essays have appeared in Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe (2014), Helios, the Art of Eadweard Muybridge (2010), Muse de quai Branly; la collection (2008), and L'Art de la Photographie des origins nos jours (2007). She has been made a fellow of the Internationales Kolleg fr Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar Germany (IKKM), a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques (France) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
BenBurbridge is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. His curated exhibitions include Revelations: Experiments in Photography (2015) and the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space. Co-founder of Ph: The Photography Research Network and a former editor of Photoworks magazine, his writing on photography, contemporary art, and politics has been published widely. Burbridge is the editor of two books on photographyRevelations (2015) and Photography Reframed (2018; with Annebella Pollen). He is currently completing work on his first monograph, provisionally titled Nothing Personal: Photography in the Age ofCommunicative Capitalism.
Costanza Caraffa is Head of Photothek at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut. She edited the volumes Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History (2011) and Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation (2015; with Tiziana Serena), among others, and in 2009 she initiated the Photo Archives open conference series (London and Florence 2009, New York 2011, Florence 2011, Los Angeles 2016, Oxford 2017, Florence/Abu Dhabi 2019). Between 2015 and 2018 Caraffa was coordinator of the collaborative project Photo-Objects Photographs as (Research) Objects in Archaeology, Ethnology and Art History, and in 2018 she co-curated the exhibition Unboxing Photographs at Kunstbibliothek (Berlin).
Susan A. Crane is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on thematic issues of collective memory, historical consciousness, and how historians use historical photographs as sources. She is the author of Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany (2000) and editor of Museums and Memory (2000). Crane is currently editing The Cultural History of Memory, vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury) and completing a monograph titled "... and then Nothing Happened": On Seeing the Past as Nothing.
MargaretDenny is an independent photo historian with a PhD in Art History that she was awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. Denny has taught the survey of photography at colleges and universities in Chicago for over fifteen years, and presented papers at national and international conferences. American and British women in commercial photography are her area of research specialization. Her essay "Mrs. Albert Broom's Interesting 'Snap Shot' Post Cards" appeared in the Museum of London exhibition catalogue SoldiersandSuffragettes:The Photography of Christina Broom (2015). In 2018 Denny collaborated on Margaret Bourke-White's DifferentWorld exhibition and catalogue at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida).
Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University (Leicester), Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at VARI (the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Centre, London, 2017-2020), Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Edwards has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, history, and anthropology. She has written over ninety papers and articles, and her monographs and edited works include The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination 1885-1912 (2012), Sensible Objects (2006), Photographs Objects Histories