Photography Network at the 2023 CAA Annual Conference

Back in person in New York, this year’s CAA conference (February 15–18) features an array of offerings in photography, listed below. Do join us at our sponsored session, The Art of Removal: Photography and Natural Resource Extraction on Wednesday, February 15, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, and at our Annual Business Meeting, Friday, February 17, 1:00pm - 2:00pm.

• Conference Details Link

We’ll also host an informal Happy Hour during CAA, Thursday, February 16, at 6pm, at a location to be determined near the Hilton. To attend, we ask that you RSVP by emailing PhotographyNetworkRSVP@gmail.com by February 6th so that we can confirm our number with the venue.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

Wednesday, February 15

Photo-related Sessions:

2:30-4:30: The Art of Removal: Photography and Natural Resource Extraction (Photography Network Sponsored Session)

Convening: Kristen Gaylord, Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Presenting:

• Emily K. Morgan, Rendering Rendering: Photographing Animal Extraction

• James R. Swensen, Excavated Sublime: George Anderson’s Photographic Documentation of Bingham Canyon, The First Open-Pit Mine in the World, 1906-1913

• Katerina Korola, An Extraction of Form: Modernist Encounters in and around the Mines 

• Allison K. Young, Notes on the Unfixed: Extraction, Landscape, and Photography at the End of the World  

4:30-6:00: Format/Formation: Photography, Scale, Identity

Convening: Caitlin E. Ryan and Dana Ostrander, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Discussant: Juliet Koss, Scripps College

Presenting:

• Cammie Tipton-Amini, Globalization is “Common Sense”: Martin Parr Documents the 1990s  

• Roy Ng, Maneuvering a Monk: Photographic Scale and Buddhist Identities in Thailand and Laos

• Lauren Catherine Graves, “A Gallery for the People”: The Federal Art Project Gallery’s Experiments in Scale

• Amy Crum, Inside Out/Outside In: Projecting the Barrio in the Work of John M. Valadez

Additional  photo-related presentations: 

4:30-6:00: Art in the Age of AI  Sarah Martin, University of Notre Dame 

Thursday, February 16

9:00-10:30: Transnational Narratives in Early Asian Photography

Convening: Karen Fraser, University of San Francisco College of Arts and Sciences

Presenting:

• Karen Fraser, Global Exchanges in Early Japanese Photography: Ogawa Kazumasa and His Collaborators

• Yixu Eliza Chen,Transnational Transformation of the Photographic Chinese Female Nude  

• Hye-ri Oh, Sites of Transculturation: Korean Modernist Photography and Its Connection to the Japanese Education

11:00-12:30: Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan during the Martial Law Era (1949-1987)

Convening: Shuxia Chen, University of New South Wales, and Olivier Krischer, University of New South Wales

Presenting :

• Joseph Ho: Interstitial Visions: Diasporic Religion and Transnational Vernacular Photography in Cold War Taiwan

• Olivier Krischer, Changing the Subject: Tsai Hui-feng and the 'documentary' image in 1960s Taiwan

• Shao-Chien Tseng, Bonding with Nature: Photographing the Wilderness and Eco-Cultural Land in Taiwan

• Shuxia Chen, Picturing a psychic world in 1980s Taiwan  

Additional photo-related presentations:

• 9:00-10:30: Bringing P.A.I.N. to the Sacklers: Nan Goldin’s Campaign Against Pharmaceutical Blood Money John Corso-Esquivel, Davidson College

• 11:00-12:30 Gothic Images, Images of Gothic: The Promotion of Gothic in 19th-Century Photography Sarah E. Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology

• 11:00-12:30 Composing the Folk: The Role of Stage Design in Interwar Rural Photography Julia Secklehner, Masaryk University

• 11:00-12:30 “Imagined and Described”: The Patent as Event in Photographic History Emily Glinski Doucet, McGill University

• 2:30-4:00 Fantasies of Korean Girls: This Isn’t What It Appears JooHee Kim, University of Maryland

• 2:30-4:00 AI and Objectivity: The Role of Humanistic Self-Criticality in Digital Humanities Research Amanda Wasielewski, Stockholms Universitet

• 2:30-4:00 “Everything hangs out”: Ralph Arnold’s skepticism of purity Gregory Foster-Rice

Friday, February 17

9:00-10:30 Photographic Futurity and Global Archives of Empire

Convening: Emily Leslie Voelker, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Erin Hyde Nolan, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Presenting:

• Ashley Duffey, Orphans, Waifs, Adoptees: Legacies of the Korean War in the Visual Culture of Transnational Adoption

• Darren Newbury, Imagined African Futures in the Cold War Archive

• Frances Dorenbaum, National Identity in a Transnational Archive: Unsettling the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection of Press Prints

• Alejandro toledo Acierto, To hold, to frame, to extend, to mend: Pilipinx care within the Archive of Constraint

• Jonathan Dentler, Computer Vision and the Trans-imperial Photographic Archive: The Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI (EyCon) Project  

1:00-2:00 Photography Network - Business Meeting

Additional photo-related Presentations:

• 9:00-10:30 Drawing the Modern News Susannah Evelyn Blair, Columbia University

• 11:00-12:30 Invisibilities on Display: The Hashem el Madani Collection of the Arab Image Foundation Re-Interpreted (1998–2018) Elisaveta Dvorakk, Humboldt University of Berlin

• 2:30-4:00 "You stop and stare as I'm leavin' my favorite place”: New York City, Photography, and the 1970s and 80s Lauren Cesiro

• 2:30-4:00 Ngarino Ellis: Charting Constellations Ngarino G Ellis, University of Auckland

• 4:30-6:00 "Lilies at her feet": Sarah Bernhardt from muse to role model Liesbeth Grotenhuis 

Saturday, February 18

Photo-related Presentations: 

• 9:30-10:30 Self-Fashioning in The Studio: Barkley Hendricks’ Portraits and African Studio Photography Sahara Lyon, Florida State University

• 11:00-12:30 Hazy Moon, Eclipsed Sun: Between Art and Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomical Photography and Celestial Painting in Meiji Japan Ayelet Zohar,Tel Aviv University

• 11:00-12:30 Acts of Feeling: James Welling and the New Expressionism Alexander Ryan Bigman, Rutgers University New Brunswick

• 11:00-1:30 Liquid Capital: Water in the King and Wheeler Survey Photographs of the American West  Elizabeth Courtney Keto, Yale University

• 11:00-1:30 LaToya Ruby Frazier and the Problem of Class Reductionism David Markus, New York University

• 2:30-4:00 Robert H. Vance’s Fortunes and/in Mining: A Transpacific Photographer, 1846-1865 Monica C Bravo, PhD, University of Southern California