Tom Cornelius

Uncommon Places: The Landscape(s) of Photography, 1969-1982

PhD supervisor: Dr Stephanie Schwartz
Working title for PhD: Uncommon Places: The Landscape(s) of Photography, 1969-1982

Tom Cornelius

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)

Contact 
thomas.cornelius.21@ucl.ac.uk

Qualifications 
2015-2016: University of Cambridge, MPhil American Literature
2012-2015: University of Manchester, BA Hons American Studies