Laurie Dahlberg
Associate Professor of Art History and Photography; Director, Art History Program
Primary Academic Program: Art History
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Photography, Science, Technology, and Society, Victorian Studies
Academic Expertise: Art History
Area of Specialization: Photography
Biography:
B.S., M.A., Illinois State University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Current project,
At Home with the Camera: Early Domestic Photography and the Framing of Private Life. Author,
Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography, the Art of Avoiding Errors (Princeton University Press, 2005);
Larry Fink (Phaidon, 2005). Contributor,
Interior Portraiture and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France (Ashgate, 2011);
Encyclopedia of 19th-Century Photography (Taylor & Francis, 2007);
Louis Robert, L�Alchimie des Images (1999). Awards and honors: National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2000); Model/Blum Fellow, National Gallery of Canada (1995). At Bard since 1996.
Interests:
Research Interests: 19th c. Photography, 19th c. art; vernacular and domestic photography; 19th c. culture (France, Britain, America); colonial photography, travel and exploration photography; portraiture
Teaching Interests: all photography; 19th c. painting and graphic art; outsider art; visual culture, material culture; writing
Other Interests: history of science; history of aesthetics; material culture; natural history (insects, animals, plants); writing
Contact:
Phone: 845-758-7239
Website: http://arthistory.bard.edu/?page_id=58
E-mail: dahlberg@bard.edu
