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Panelists
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Douglas
R. Nickel, Director, Center for Creative Photography,
and Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Arizona, Tucson
Douglas R. Nickel is currently director of the Center for Creative Photography and associate professor of art history in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Nickel was part of the curatorial staff at SFMOMA since 1993. In 1997 he became the curator of photography. His exhibitions include Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll (2002) which was accompanied by a substantial exhibition catalogue; Stranger Passing: Collected Portraits by Joel Sternfeld (2001); Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception (1999), the first major exhibition of the work of the 19th-century American landscape photographer; and Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life (1998). The author of books, reviews, and many articles, Nickel's volume, Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad , was published this year by Princeton University Press. Nickel graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1983 with a B.A. in art history. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Princeton University, where he specialized in the history of photography and American art.
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Jonathan
C. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of American
Studies, Saint Louis University
Jonathan
C. Smith studies the history and ideology of race in American
culture. He has particular interests in how ideologies of
race shape and are shaped by African American literature and
culture. Smith is currently at work on a book examining tropes
of place, space and positionality in post-WWII African American
poetics through an examination of the works of such poets
as Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Jay Wright, Sapphire,
and Cyrus Cassells. He is also a widely published poet whose
work has appeared in such journals as Callaloo, Quarterly
West, and the Minnesota Review. Additionally,
Smith is currently engaged in researching and archiving the
African American “funeral program” as an artifact
residing at the nexus of material culture, visual culture
and print culture. This project combines his interests in
narrative and visual representation, race, and religion in
American Culture. Smith also serves as Assistant Editor for African American Review and as Editor of the MAASA
Newsletter.
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Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus
of English and American Studies, Yale University
Recently awarded an Emeritus Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation in the first year of the foundation's new program,
Alan Trachtenberg has been a member of the Yale faculty since
1969, and has served as chair and director of graduate studies
in American studies. His scholarly work has focused on American
cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, including topics
in literature and the history of photography. His books include
Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew
Brady to Walker Evans (winner of the National Museum of
American Art's Charles C. Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship
in American art); Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol, and
The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded
Age. A forum on the latter work appears in the Winter 2004
issue of the journal American Literary History. It includes
papers delivered at a panel commemorating the 20th anniversary
of the book at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association
in 2002. His most recent book, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1890-1930, will appear in October 2004. Trachtenberg has also edited or contributed to a number
of other books, including The American Image and Classic
Essays on Photography, and Documenting America, 1935-1943.
His honors include the International Center of Photography's
Writing Award for 1991 and fellowships from the American Council
of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He
has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Palo Alto, California, and the Woodrow Wilson Center
in Washington, D.C. He was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
in 1992-1993 and held the Times Mirror Foundation Distinguished
Fellowship in American Studies at the Huntington Library in
1998-1999.
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Stephen
White, Photography Collector, Curator, and Former
Gallery Owner, Los Angeles
Stephen White began the Stephen White Gallery of Photography in 1975. It closed in 1991, a year after he sold his personal collection and gallery inventory to a Japanese Museum. He was the Founding President of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) and formerly the Vice President of the Photography Council at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). His articles have been published in History of Photography and Image magazine and he has written catalogues on Karl Struss, Louis Fleckenstein, Harry Ellis, W. Eugene Smith and others for gallery exhibitions. He has co-curated three major traveling museum exhibitions, each from his personal collection: John Thomson, A Window to the Orient (1985-86, GEH), Parallels and Contrasts , (New Orleans Museum of Art, 1988-90), and his most recent exhibition from his second collection, The Photograph and the American Dream (Van Gogh Museum, 2001-2004). Each exhibition was accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. He is currently at work as a curator for the exhibition Photography on the Brink , an exhibition taken from the Norton Simon photography collection. It will be accompanied by a catalogue and open October 2006.
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Moderators:
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Michelle
Lamunière, Charles C. Cunningham, Sr. Assistant
Curator of Photography,
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
Michelle Lamunière is the Charles C. Cunningham, Sr.
Assistant Curator of Photography at Harvard University's Fogg
Art Museum. She was the curator for the 2001 exhibition and
catalogue You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs
of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, which traveled
to Los Angeles and London. Before coming to Harvard, Lamunière
was the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Award in Color Photography Intern
at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston and an assistant
at the Boston University Art Gallery. She has also held internships
at the National Portrait Gallery and the University of Oregon
Museum of Art. Lamunière, a doctoral candidate in the
Art History Department at Boston University, is currently working
on her dissertation, which focuses on the Social Museum at Harvard,
a collection of photographs and ephemera representing the international
reform movement at the turn of the 20th century.
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Melissa Renn, PhD student and Warren G. Adelson Curatorial
Fellow in American Art, Art History Department, Boston University.
Melissa
Renn is the Warren G. Adelson Curatorial Fellow in American
Art at Boston University. She received her BA in Art History
and English from Stanford University in 1999 and her MA in
Art History from Boston University in 2004. She studies 19th
and early 20th American Art and visual culture with a focus
on the American Arts and Crafts movement and transatlantic
exchange. Her MA thesis, "From Journal to Catalog: The
Transformation of Art and Crafts Ideology in Gustav Stickley's
The Craftsman" was presented at the Winterthur Conference
for Emerging Scholars in Material Culture in 2004.
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Jessica Sewell, Assistant Professor, Art History and
American and New England Studies, Boston University.
Jessica Sewell received her PhD in Architecture from the University
of California, Berkeley. She is a scholar of American material
culture, cultural landscapes, and gender and architecture, and
taught at Binghamton University and New York University before
joining the faculty of Boston University in 2003. She is currently
revising her dissertation, Gendering the Spaces of Modernity:
Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915, as
a book, and has published related articles in Perspectives
in Vernacular Architecture and the collection Expanding
Cultural Landscapes. Her newest project examines the material
culture of masculinity.
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Kim Sichel, Chair, Art History Department, Associate
Professor, Boston University.
Kim Sichel has been teaching at Boston University since 1987 and is currently the Chair of the Art History Department. She was Director of the Boston University Art Gallery from 1992 to 1998. A specialist in the history of photography, she is the author of Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity , 1999, published in English by MIT Press and in German by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag. She has published widely in Europe and the United States, including Street Portraits 1946-76: The Photographs of Jules Aarons; Black Boston: Documentary Photography and the African American Experience ; Mapping the West: 19th Century Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library ; From Icon to Irony: German and American Photography ; Brassai: Paris le jour, Paris la nuit; and Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity, and the Documentary Mode. She is currently working on a book on documentary photography in the 1970s. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Fellowship for University Teachers) and from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
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