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Laurie Dahlberg
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Photography
Primary Academic Program: Art History
Academic Program Affiliation(s): French Studies, Photography, Science, Technology, and Society, Victorian Studies
Academic Expertise: Art History
Area of Specialization: Photography
Biography:Education: BS, MA, Illinois State University; MA, PhD, Princeton University.
Awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2012 and 2000); The Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2012); Model/Blum Fellow, National Gallery of Canada (1995); and the Fowler-McCormick Research Fellowship, Princeton University (1993).
Her current publishing projects include “Amateur vs. amateur: Photography and the [D]evolution of a Gentleman’s Art”; “‘Art’s Mortal Enemy’: Baudelaire, Photography, and the Ruin of French Taste.” Her books include Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley (Blindspot Editions, 2011); Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors (Princeton Univ. Press 2005); and Larry Fink 55 (Phaidon, 2005).
Other Publications: “At Home with the Camera: Modeling Masculinity in Early French Photography,” in Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 (Belnap-Jensen, et al., Ashgate, 2011); Contributor, Impressionism and the Ecology of Landscape, Stephen Eisenman, ed., Complesso del Vittoriano, 2010; Contributor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, John Hannavy, ed., Routledge, 2007.
Selected Public Presentations: The Royal Museums of Fine Art, Belgium (2012); Concordia University (2010); Western Society for French History (2008); Princeton University (2007); Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2005); Bibliotheque Nationale de France (2004); Brooklyn Museum of Art (2002); Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (2001).
Awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2012 and 2000); The Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2012); Model/Blum Fellow, National Gallery of Canada (1995); and the Fowler-McCormick Research Fellowship, Princeton University (1993).
Her current publishing projects include “Amateur vs. amateur: Photography and the [D]evolution of a Gentleman’s Art”; “‘Art’s Mortal Enemy’: Baudelaire, Photography, and the Ruin of French Taste.” Her books include Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley (Blindspot Editions, 2011); Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors (Princeton Univ. Press 2005); and Larry Fink 55 (Phaidon, 2005).
Other Publications: “At Home with the Camera: Modeling Masculinity in Early French Photography,” in Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 (Belnap-Jensen, et al., Ashgate, 2011); Contributor, Impressionism and the Ecology of Landscape, Stephen Eisenman, ed., Complesso del Vittoriano, 2010; Contributor, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, John Hannavy, ed., Routledge, 2007.
Selected Public Presentations: The Royal Museums of Fine Art, Belgium (2012); Concordia University (2010); Western Society for French History (2008); Princeton University (2007); Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2005); Bibliotheque Nationale de France (2004); Brooklyn Museum of Art (2002); Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (2001).
She has also been a critic for Aperture Magazine since 2004. 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 and composition
- Other Interests: history of science; history of aesthetics; material culture; natural history (insects, animals, plants); writing
Contact:
Phone: 845-758-7239Website: https://arthistory.bard.edu/?page_id=58
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Location: Fisher Annex
Office: 108