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Photography's Allure

This panel considers photography’s many forms and its relationship to questions of beauty and pleasure. Papers discuss Andy Warhol in the age of Instagram, the problematic beauty of documentary photography, the destabilization in Cindy Sherman’s oeuvre, and the role of beauty as a mode of resistance.

Presentations

InstaAndy: Warholian Pleasures of the Everyday

Presenters

Elisa Glick

Revitalizing Photographic Beauty: Or Need the Aesthetic be Anesthetic?

Presenters

Mary K. Brantl

Identification and Destabilization in the Early Oeuvre of Cindy Sherman

Presenters

Kat Goffnett

Beauty as Provocation: Curating in the Age of Hyper-attention

Presenters

Susan Morelock

Session chairs

Kim Sels Janna Eggebeen