Talks
- Flash Forward: A Gathering of Photographers
Tuesday, September 9, 7 pm Introduction by Jennifer Tucker: Ten Photographs That Shook the
World
Free to members, $3 nonmembers
Green Street Arts Center
For more information visit the GSAC website - Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography
Reception: Friday, September 12, 5–7 pm
Gallery Talk by Curator Nina Felshin at 5:30 pm
Ezra and Cecile
Zilkha Gallery
Free and open to the public - Document or Art? Photography in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1839–1914
Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5–7 pm
Gallery Talk by Curator Clare Rogan and Associate Professor of History Jennifer Tucker at 5:30 pm
Davison Art Center - Photography in the Eye of the Beholder
The Virgil and Juwil
Topazio Lecture
Douglas Nickel, Professor of Modern Art, Brown University
Thursday, October 30, 5:30 pm
CFA Cinema
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
Document or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839–1914
Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5–7 pm
Gallery Talk by Curator Clare Rogan and Associate Professor of History Jennifer Tucker
at 5:30 pm
Davison Art Center
Free and open to the public
Jacob August Riis (American, born Denmark, 1849–1914), Street Arabs—Night Boys in Sleeping Quarters (Newsboys), ca. 1880s, printed 1947, gelatin silver print, Gift of Russell G. D’Oench, Jr., 1991.30.47 (photo: R. J. Phil).
Can photography be art? Art historian Clare Rogan and historian Jennifer Tucker explore competing ideas about photography from the invention in 1839 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Presenters
Clare Rogan, Curator of the Davison Art Center, teaches history of photography in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan.
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan, specializes in the study of social and cultural practices of science and technology. She is the author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005), a study of the historical forces and conditions that led to the emergence of photography as a new form of scientific evidence in the nineteenth century.