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Joel Eisinger (1951-)
Joel Eisinger holds a B.A. in political science from Indiana University; an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University; and an M.F.A. in photography and a Ph.D. in art history from Indiana University. He teaches in the art history department at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where his courses include Chinese Art, African American Art, Nineteenth-Century European Art, Early Modern Art, Postmodern Theory, and the History of Photography. He is editor of exposure, the journal of the Society for Photographic Education.

Eisinger's publications include Trace and Transformation: American Theory and Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period, the first extended critical study of the critical tradition in photography. His current research and writing concerns white racial identity in U. S. photography.

Contact: Joel Eisinger at eisingj@mrs.umn.edu


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Essays


A Joel Eisinger Bibliography (selected)

Books

  • Trace and Transformation: American Theory and Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Essays

  • "Carrie Mae Weems's Colored People Series: Its Contextual Meanings." The Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 43-52.
  • Reviews of A. D. Coleman's Depth of Field (1998) and The Digital Evolution (1998) in The Photo Review, Vol. 23, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 2-9.
  • "Powerful Images: Two Famous Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Charles Moore," exposure, Vol. 33, no. 1/2 (2000): 33-42.
  • Review of Robert Hirsch's Seizing the Light (2000) in The Photo Review (spring 2000): 28-31.
  • "Oedipal Syrup: Henry Holmes Smith's Mother and Son," History of Photography 18:1 (February 1994): 78-86.

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