{"id":5263,"date":"2015-07-28T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&p=5263"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:57:46","slug":"kim-sichel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/kim-sichel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Sichel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
Email<\/th>\nFall 2026 Office Hours<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ksichel@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\nRetired<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Email for an appointment<\/a><\/p>\n

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Professor Kim Sichel teaches photographic history and European\/American modernism, with a particular interest in photographic books, photojournalism, and documentary photography. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern art and the history of photography. She advises a large number of graduate students studying photography and modern art, as well as advising dissertations in the American and New England Studies Program. <\/span><\/p>\n

Her most recent book is Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2020). Her most recent article is \u201cPhotographers on the Move: Women Report from Africa,\u201d in Andrea Nelson, ed., The New Woman Behind the Camera<\/em> (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2020). Previous books include Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity<\/em> (1999), published in English by MIT Press and in German by Schirmer\/Mosel Verlag. <\/span><\/p>\n

Previous publications include Black Boston: Documentary Photography and the African American Experienc<\/em>e (1994) — an early examination of African American photographers in Boston; as well as TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography<\/em> (2007); Germaine Krull\/Monte Carlo<\/em> (2006), Street Portraits 1946-1976: The Photographs of Jules Aarons<\/em> (2003); Brassai: Paris le jour, Paris la nuit<\/em> (1988); From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography<\/em> (1995); and Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library<\/em> (1992). She has also written essays about Lee Friedlander, Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz, Germaine Krull, the New Topographics, interwar European photography, and European women photographing in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Sichel has served as Chair of the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Director of the American and New England Studies Program, Director of the Boston University Art Gallery, and currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for The The American & New England Studies Program. <\/span><\/p>\n

She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the Boston University Center for the Humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

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Select Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nMaking Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France.<\/em><\/strong>
\nYale University Press, 2020.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nTO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography.<\/em><\/strong>
\nBoston University Art Gallery, 2007.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nGermaine Krull, Photographer of Modernity<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong>
\nMIT Press, 1999.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18201,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5263\/revisions\/18201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}