The Developing Room: Rutgers Photography Working Group
The Developing Room is a working group that was co-founded by Tanya Sheehan and Andres Zervigón in 2008. We are affiliated with the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. By organizing research seminars, symposia, and publications, the Developing Room has brought together faculty and students from the university and area institutions to explore new questions about the histories, theories, and practices of photography. To date our major research areas have included photography and medicine; photography and radical politics; global photography and its histories; and the origins of photography. We are committed to promoting Rutgers as a center for photography studies and collaborating with photography networks across the globe.
Our work is made possible by support from the Center for Cultural Analysis, School of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Vice President for Research, and Art History Department at Rutgers.
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Tanya Sheehan
Department of Art History, Rutgers
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Tanya Sheehan teaches courses on art and science, race and representation, and the history of photography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), which explores the relationship between studio portrait photography, medical discourse, and social identity. Dr. Sheehan is now writing a book that examines ideas about race in photographic humor. She developed this project with fellowship support from the Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the New York Public Library, and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is currently serving as Photography Field Editor for caa.reviews (College Art Association) and as Guest Editor of Photography for Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press).
Andres Zervigon
Department of Art History, Rutgers
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Andrés Mario Zervigón teaches the history of photography and researches the interaction between photography, film, and fine art at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His work generally focuses upon moments in history when these media prove inadequate to their task of representing the visual. Zervigón's first book, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image (University of Chicago Press, 2012) examines the Weimar-era work of this German artist and the crisis of photographic representation generating his highly political photomontage. His second book project, Photo-Ambivalence, focuses on the broader subject of interwar German photography. It proposes that the era’s remarkable creativity in photography arose from mixed feelings about the medium’s escalating power on mass audiences. Zervigón has recently published articles and reviews in New German Critique, Visual Resources, History of Photography and Rundbrief Fotografie, and he contributed to the catalogue Avant-Art in Everyday Life (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011).
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