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PhD supervisor: Dr Stephanie Schwartz
Working title for PhD: Uncommon Places: The Landscape(s) of Photography, 1969-1982
My PhD takes three exhibitions from the 1970s of work by the photographer Stephen Shore as a frame for rethinking the canonical histories of American landscape photography. Setting and subject both, landscape offers a reflexive view onto photography’s institutionalisation. The project’s museological methodology recognises how Shore’s early career is paradigmatic of the institutional history of late modernism. Attending to these exhibitions therefore becomes a means of re-evaluating the effects of certain modernist-formalist curatorial strategies developed by John Szarkowski at MoMA.
Teaching:
- PGTA, HART0001: History of Art and its Objects
- PGTA, BA Dissertations and Long Essay
Awards:
- UCL History of Art Department Research Travel Grants
- UCL Critical Histories of Art Studentship
- University of Manchester Dennis Welland Prize for Exceptional Academic Achievement
- University of Manchester George Gissing Memorial Prize for Literature
Publications:
‘Landscape as grid in Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces’, The Burlington Magazine, May 2023.
Conference papers:
‘Exhibitionality and the grid in Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces’, BAAS 2023.
Department/faculty roles:
Co-ordinator, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art (CSCA)
