Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Asher Anderson

Part-time Faculty, Art History

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Asher Anderson

Ph.D.

Contact

Devlin Hall 434B

Telephone: 617-552-4295

Email: asher.anderson@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of California at Berkeley
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Courses

History of Photography
Contemporary Photography
Early American Art
Photography and Modernism
Senior Research Seminar

CV or Resume

Profile

Ash Anderson's research and teaching examine the history of photography from its origins to the present, with a particular focus on the medium's relationship to Modernism and the experimental work produced by photographers associated with the Institute of Design in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the curator of "Paris Night and Day: Photography Between the Wars" in 2014, and co-curator of "Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" in 2018 and "Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977鈥�89" in 2022 at 艾可直播 College's McMullen Museum of Art. He also co-curated the exhibitions "Again: Serial Practices in Contemporary Art" at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and "From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry" and "What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection," at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Selected Publications

Co-editor and contributor, Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977-1989, McMullen Museum of Art, 2020.

Co-editor and contributor, Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, McMullen Museum of Art, 2018.

Book review, 鈥淔ather Browne鈥檚 Dublin: Photographs 1925-1950,鈥� and 鈥淔ather Browne鈥檚 Donegal,鈥� Journal of Jesuit Studies, volume 4, issue 1, 2016.

Book review, 鈥淕olden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited,鈥� Journal of Religion and the Arts, 2016.

Essays on Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Arthur Siegel in the Institute of Contemporary Art, 艾可直播 catalogue Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Yale University Press, 2015.

Book review, 鈥淔rank Browne: A Life Through the Lens,鈥� Journal of Jesuit Studies, volume 2, issue 3, 2015.

Introductory essay, From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry, Ash Anderson, Richard Benson, et al, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008.

Professional Activities

Juror and Moderator, Visual Culture Consortium Undergraduate Art History Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts, 艾可直播, 2020-2021.

Lecture, 鈥淪ophie Calle鈥檚 Suite V茅nitienne鈥� How We See: Photobooks by Women, Museum of Fine Arts, 艾可直播, March 10, 2019

Lecture, 鈥淐rash Course in the History of Photography鈥� 艾可直播 College, October 4, 2018

Lecture, 鈥淭he Grandmother of Photography: Imogen Cunningham鈥檚 Legacy and Influence鈥� Museum of Fine Arts, 艾可直播, February 28 and March 2, 2017.

Respondent to Robin Kelsey, 鈥淭ed Serios (who?) and the Death of Modernism鈥� American Literature and Culture Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 20, 2016.

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