Laurie Dahlberg
Associate Professor of Photography
Chair of the Art History Department
Bard College (1996– )
Office: Fisher Annex 108
Tel: (845) 758-7239
E-mail:
dahlberg@bard.eduEducation:B.S., M.A., Illinois State Univeristy; M.A. Ph.D., Princeton Unviersity.
Awards and Honors:National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2000); Model/Blum Fellow, National Gallery of Canada (1995); Fowler-McCormick Research Fellowship, Princeton University (1993).
Projects:Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors (Princeton Univ. Press 2005) and "Behind Closed Doors: Early Domestic Photography and the Framing of Private Life"Contributor, Louis Robert, L’Alchimie des Images (1999); the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (1997); Thomas Eakins and the Heart of American Life (1993); Larry Fink 55, Phaidon Press, 2003.
Curatorial:David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame,
Mark Innerst: Landscape and Beyond,
and Road and Roadside: American Photographs, 1930-1986.
Courses Taught:Introduction to the History of Photography
Photography in America
Photography and the Human Condition
The Portrait and Its Guises
From Human Documents to the Image World, Photography 1945-1990
Travel and Exploration in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Photography and Performance
The Real, the Ideal and Challenge of Representation
The Body and Its Image
Art in the Age of Revolution: European Painting, 1760-1860
Manet to Matisse