PHOTOGRAPHY & ITS ORIGINS

Friday, April 27, 2012
9:30am-5:30pm

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ

How do we tell the story of photography’s beginnings? Who invented the
medium? When and where was the first photograph made? What shaped the
earliest ideas about and conventions of photography? Why do we ask such
questions?

Participants:
- Jordan Bear, University of Toronto
- Mirjam Brusius, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of
Cambridge
- Marcy Dinius, DePaul University
- Anne McCauley, Princeton University
- Terry Matilsky, Rutgers University
- Julia Munro, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Stephen Pinson, New York Public Library
- Beth Saunders, CUNY Graduate Center
- Shawn Michelle Smith, Art Institute of Chicago

Introductions by organizers Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Zervigón, Rutgers
University

Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Analysis, School of Arts and
Sciences, and the Office of the Vice President for Research at Rutgers
University.

For more information, please visit http://cca.rutgers.edu or contact
developingroomgmail.com.