visiting professor in the history of photography

Luc Sante teaches the history of photography in the Fall semester, and creative writing (in the Language and Literature division) in the Spring. He is the author of Low Life (1991), The Factory of Facts (1998), and, regarding photography, Evidence (1992) and Walker Evans (2001), and is co-author of American Photography, 1890-1965, from the Museum of Modern Art (1995). In addition to introducing books by photographers as diverse as James Nachtwey, Guy Bourdin, Philip-Lorca Di Corcia, and Todd Hido, he has written on photography for publications from The New York Times and Metropolitan to Blind Spot and DoubleTake, and has been a visiting critic in the graduate department of photography at Yale. Luc has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing.