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