Jonathan Dentler

Terra Foundation for American Art Research and Teaching Fellow  Associate Researcher in American Art and Transatlantic Exchanges

Dentler@usc.edu

Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles

Research

Research themes

  • Visual Studies
  • Press and Telecommunications
  • Art History

 

Research Supervision: 

  • History of Photography
  • History of the Press
  • Visual Studies and Media Aesthetics

Current Project

  • Wired Images: Visual Telecommunications, News Agencies, and the Invention of the World Picture, 1917-1955
  • Submerged Ties: The Atlantis Myth and Modern Culture, 1850-1950
  • Periodica non olet: Ferdinand the Bull and Life Magazine’s Intermedial Strategy

Bio

  • 2020, Ph.D., University of Southern California. Dissertation Title: Wired Images: Visual Telecommunications, News Agencies, and the Invention of the World Picture, 1917-1955
  • 2020-2022 – Terra Foundation for American Art Research and Teaching Fellow, Université de Paris, Université Paris Nanterre

Media

    Publications

      Articles

      • “Techniques of Transmission: Wire Service Photography and the Digital Image,” in Olga Moskatova, ed., Images on the Move: Materiality, Networks, Formats, manuscript under review with Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2022. [Invited]
      • “Broken Bridges and Breathless Images: Max Desfor’s Wire Photographs at the Museum of Modern Art,” History of Photography, Vol. 45, Issue 4, 2021. (Forthcoming, fall 2021)
      • Review of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle by Joseph Clark, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Vol. 60, Issue 4, Summer 2021.
      • « Images câblées: La téléphotographie à l’ère de la mondialisation de la presse illustrée », Transbordeur: Photographie Histoire Société, No. 3., Câble, copie, code. Photographie et technologies de l’information, 2019.