2004 Main Speakers

Keynote Speaker Frank Gohlke
Henry Thoreau, Herbert Gleason, Concord, and the Idea of Place

Photographer Frank Gohlke, whose books include Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape and Landscapes from the Middle of the World, teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has recently studied photographer Herbert Gleason (1855-1937), whose work is known mainly to the small universe of Thoreau followers around Concord, MA and its Holy Pond. Gleason made photographs that are, for all their modesty, both an anticipation of and a paradigm for developments in landscape photography more characteristic of the end of the 20th Century than its beginning. This talk introduces a body of work overdue for recognition on photographic grounds, and describes how these pictures have entered Gohlke's own consciousness, illuminating the intricate connections between landscape and place, self and site, and the literary and the visual imaginations.

Honored Educator Jerome Liebling
My Photographs from 1947 to the Present: Their Humanist/Political Meaning during the Years of Change and Competing Choices

Jerome Liebling, one of the founding members of the Society for Photographic Education, was a professor of photography at the University of Minnesota from 1949-1969 and at Hampshire College from 1970-1990. He has also taught at New York State University at New Paltz, Yale University and Amherst College. Prestigious institutions throughout the United States and the world have exhibited his photographs, and he has been recognized by numerous awards, including two grants from the NEA (1979 and 1984) and two Guggenheim Fellowships (1977 and 1981).

Featured Speaker Mark Sealy
Sense of Place and the Axis of Power

Mark Sealy is the director of Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers in London. (In England, Black refers to any people of color.) Since 1988 Autograph has been a key photographic production bureau and information resource for historians, curators, galleries, festivals, and international photographic media. They are currently working on a $10.3 million capital building project in collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Art. Mark's talk for SPE will address some of the issues Autograph has faced as an organization.

General Speakers

Barry Anderson earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from Indiana University. He and currently teaches digital media at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He has shown his photographs and videos in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston, Washington, DC, and abroad in England, Cuba and Russia. (Between Expectation and The Everyday, Friday, 1:00 p – 1:45 p)

Walter Bodle is the founder of Youth in Focus, a nationally recognized program that empowers urban teens through photography. (Blue Earth Alliance: Supporting Photographers Wanting To Make A Difference, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:45 a)

Dan Burden is the Director of Walkable Communities, Inc. He was the Florida Department of Pedestrian and Bicycle coordinator for sixteen years and has freelanced for magazines such as National Geographic and Better Homes and Gardens. Now he travels over 300 days a year, photographing and lecturing on community development and neighborhood revitalization. (Images of Change: Documenting The Move To A New American Nation, Saturday, 11:00 a – 11:45 a)

Christopher Burnett has been the director of the Visual Studies Workshop since 2001. His work as an artist, writer, educator and administrator realizes critical as well as aesthetic possibilities for photography and new media. His recent work, supported by Creative Capital, investigates how language relates to form in virtual environments. (The New Landscape (In Formation): Rethinking Visual Studies, Friday, 10:00 a – 10:45 a)

Laura Burns and Rachel Schreiber have been collaborating on projects about workers’ rights for two years. Burns is Assistant Professor of Photography at Goucher College and Schreiber is the director of the masters program in digital arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, both in Baltimore. (Work/Place, Friday, 3:00 p – 4:45 p)

Joy Christiansen is an MFA candidate in photography at Texas Woman’s University. She is an active exhibiting artist working in photo-based sculpture. Christiansen is a grant recipient from Miami University and currently resides in Denton, TX. (Woman Made, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:20 a)

Maria Colón, 32, is a MFA candidate in Creative Photography at the University of Florida. Her work questions the notions of cultural identity and post-colonial politics. Through the use of image, text and digital video Maria creates a humorous critique of ethnic stereotypes related to her Puerto Rican background. (Southern Baggage: Northern Cross, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:20 a)

François Deschamps is a professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he teaches undergraduate photography and interdisciplinary studies in the Visual Research Lab graduate program. (Photographing Paradise, Friday, 2:00 p – 2: 45 p)

Jennifer Dorsey received her MFA in photography in 1999 from Washington University in St. Louis. Her works have been exhibited in New York, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Maine. She currently teaches photography at Georgetown and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. (Place Located Within Self And Culture, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45 a)

Michael Ensdorf, Associate Dean at Roosevelt University in Chicago, is responsible for technology and general education for the College of Arts and Sciences. Ensdorf teaches all levels digital photography and coordinates the college’s mentor program, which was established to help junior faculty prepare for the tenure process. (Experiences In Academic Survival, Saturday, 10:00 a – 11:45 a)

Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her works have been shown internationally in galleries, museums and media arts festivals. The original version of her talk appears in the Routledge anthology Embodied Utopias. She is Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY Stony Brook where she teaches electronic media. (Networked Interventions: Artists And The Public Space Of The Internet, Friday, 2:00 p – 2: 45 p)

Vincent Feldman has been actively involved in making photographs for over twenty-five years. In the early 1990s he began working on a series surveying the abandoned civic architecture of the Philadelphia region. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2001 to continue his work on “Philadelphia: City Abandoned.” (Philadelphia: City Abandoned (Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia), Friday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Paola Ferrario is a documentary photographer who has worked in Italy, Central America and the United States for the past 15 years. She has received several awards and her work is in major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. (Borders Of Labor: The Landscape Of New Immigrants In Italy, Saturday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Ann Fessler has created multi-media installations and artists’ books that use storytelling to explore issues of family, identity and gender inequities for over twenty years. Fessler, a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, is currently a 2003-2004 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. (Giving Voice To A Community Silenced By Shame, Friday, 1:00 p – 1:45 p)

Sarina Finkelstein, BFA in Photography and Art History, Washington University (WU), St. Louis, MO; 2004 MFA candidate in Photography, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY. Awards include: Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship; William Kohn Photography Award, WU; Morris M, Horwitz Award, WU; Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, SVA. (On Stage In Central Park, Saturday, 10:40 a – 11:00 a)

Gretchen Garner is an independent scholar and the author of Disappearing Witness: Change in 20th Century American Photography. She has taught at several universities, and her criticism has been published nationally. Notable shows she has curated include “Reclaiming Paradise” and “Six Ideas in Photography.” (The Sixties, A Turning Point In American Photography, Saturday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Amy Holmes George is Assistant Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University where she recently developed the art department’s first study abroad program. She earned an MFA from Clemson University and a BFA from Miami University in Ohio. She is the treasurer for SPE’s South Central region and exhibits and publishes her work nationally. (Study Abroad: Bridging the Educational Gap, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

David Gissen is an assistant professor in architecture at Pennsylvania State University; he studied architecture at Yale University. His research explores the nexus of environmental, cultural and technological subjects in architecture. He recently published the book Big and Green: Towards Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. (Capitalist Culture Imaged, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45)

Christine Gorby is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Penn State University. Her published research focuses primarily on gendered landscapes and the representation and preservation of women’s history. Gorby received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in 1988. (Capitalist Culture Imaged, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45)

Susan kae Grant is head of the photography department at Texas Woman’s University and teaches at the International Center for Photography. She has exhibited her work and lectured at museums and galleries nationwide. She is represented in numerous collections, including the George Eastman House, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the J. Paul Getty Museum Library, the New York Public Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library. Her multi-dimensional installation, “Night Journey”, based on research conducted at the Southwestern Medical Center Sleep Laboratory, is currently traveling the United States. (Student Seminar, Thursday, 9:00 a – 1:00 p)

Nancy Whipple Grinnell, a former art librarian, is curator of the Newport Art Museum. Grinnell has worked as a curator of American art in different venues for the past fifteen years. She has written numerous exhibition catalogs and is currently completing an MA in American Civilization/Museum Studies at Brown University. (Rhode Island As Place: Gertrude Käsebier And Lewis Hine, Saturday, 11:00 a – 11:45 a)

Andy Grundberg is a critic, curator and teacher who has written about photography for more than 25 years. A collection of his writing is in Crisis of the Real (Aperture). He is Administrative Chair of the Photography Department at Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington DC, and curator of a national traveling exhibition on place. (Place Located Within Self And Culture, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45 a)

Muriel Hasbun received an MFA from George Washington University and an AB from Georgetown University. She is currently Coordinator for the photography program at The Corcoran. Hasbun has received four individual Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts/NEA and exhibited her work internationally. Hasbun is represented by Conner Contemporary Art. (Place Located Within Self And Culture, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45 a)

Andrew Hershberger, Bowling Green State University, received his PhD from Princeton in 2001. He gave the 2003 keynote address, “Teaching Art History with Digital Technology,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. A recent contributor to History of Photography and Arts of Asia, his book on sequential photography is forthcoming. (Re-Placing The Tijuana/San Diego Border Circa 1985: Jay Dusard And The Border Art Workshop/Taller De Arte Fronterizo, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Darius Himes, editor of the photo-eye booklist, has received all that the photography book publishing world has to offer – the good, the bad, and the ugly. And quite often, the exquisite. At the same time, photographers rely on photo-eye as a resource of excellent new work. I will survey the photography book publishing world from the unique vantage point that photo-eye, as a bookseller, occupies. I will then single out Nazraeli Press, Yale University Press, Twin Palms Publishers and Distributed Art Publishers as American publishing houses that consistently present finely crafted books. I will address major themes in contemporary photography book publishing through the presentation and discussion of specific publishing programs and specific titles. (Adventures In Photographic Book Publishing, Friday, 1:00 p – 2:45 p)

Jeffrey Hoone is a photographer and curator who since 1982 has been director of Light Work, an organization in Syracuse, NY that supports artists working in photography and electronic media. Hoone developed a long-standing relationship with Roger Mertin as both a resident and exhibiting artist at Light Work. (Home And Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys, Friday, 10 a – 10:45 a)

Keith Johnson studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Nathan Lyons, receiving an MFA from RISD in 1975. Ten years of teaching led to a move to the business side of the medium, ultimately supporting his fine art making as District Sales Manager for Hasselblad USA. He has shown throughout the United States and is included in collections at RISD, George Eastman House, Visual Studies Workshop and others. He is a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship grant for 2002. His current body of work seems to be leading toward producing a book about his travels. He lives in Haden, CT with his wife Becky and two sons Ben and Whit. (Student Seminar, Thursday, 9:00 a - 1:00 p)

Christopher Jordan has been photographing for the past decade. Primary interests include landscape and architectural issues. Formal studies began at Colby College (BA, psychology) and the New England School of Photography. Currently, Chris is an MFA candidate at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). (Technology And A Personal Aesthetics Of Place, Saturday, 11:00 a – 11:20 a)

Randy Juster is a Desktop Inkjet Specialist in the ILFORD Technical Applications Department. A graduate of Columbia College, he has worked for Beseler and Leica. His avocation is photographing Art Deco architecture. His photographs have appeared in more than 30 books and have been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and other museums. Visit his website at www.decopix.com. (Ilford Imaging Seminar, Thursday, 9:00 a– 1:00 p)

Daniel Kariko was born in Yugoslavia in 1976. He moved to the United States in 1994 and received his BA from Nicholls State University in Louisiana. After receiving his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University in 2002, Kariko started teaching at Florida State University Art School. (Balkan Principle - The Aftermath, Friday, 4:00 p – 4:45 p)

Jules Keith, 25, is a MFA candidate in Creative Photography at the University of Florida. Keith is the proprietor and curator of The Brass Belle, a local art gallery. Her photographs focus on the romanticism embodied by the lush southern landscape and its effect on southern women and their traditions. (Southern Baggage: Northern Cross, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:20 a)

Dean Kessmann received an MFA in photography from Southern Illinois University and has since been exhibiting work and teaching photography. Presently Kessmann is Assistant Professor at The George Washington University. Conner Contemporary Art in Washington DC, and William Shearburn Fine Art in St. Louis, MO currently represent his work. (Place Located Within Self And Culture, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45 a

Joan Klatchko lived abroad for twenty-one years before returning to America. Her assignments took her from China to Chile, from Belize to Burma, from Hong Kong to… Levittown. Her work has been exhibited in museums and featured on PBS and NPR. Joan, the recipient of several major awards, is now producing a multicultural children’s program. (Levittown, Revisited, Friday, 2:00 p – 2: 45 p)

Gary Kolb is a senior professor in photography at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He is also Associate Dean in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. He has served as President of the SIUC Faculty Union, Chairperson of the University Judicial Review Board and Chairperson of SPE. (Experiences In Academic Survival, Saturday, 10:00 a – 11:45 a)

Joining Adobe in 1993, Julieanne Kost now serves as the Senior Photoshop Evangelist. Spanning digital imaging and illustration, her role includes customer education, product development and market research. She is a writer, speaker and teacher and the author behind the Photoshop Quickstart and Advanced Photoshop Techniques training CDs published by Dean Collins. (Adobe Seminar, Thursday, 2:00 p – 4:00 p

Tarrah Krajnak is currently finishing her MFA at the University of Notre Dae where she has a Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Photography. She has most recently shown her work at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art and the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. Her current work examines the function of the family photograph in relationship to larger issues of memory, death and self-identity in tracing lineage and genetic history. (Examining The Family Album, Saturday, 11:20 a – 11:40 a)

Katherine Kreisher is a professor of art at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY where she has been teaching photography and printmaking since 1982. Roger Mertin was a visiting artist to Hartwick in conjunction with an exhibition of his photographs in Foreman Gallery, and an image was selected for the Fine Arts Collection. (Home And Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys, Friday, 10 a – 10:45 a)

Marie-Susanne Langille is an award-winning photojournalist and picture editor. She has worked for newspapers in Utah, Iowa and Indiana as well as the Associated Press in New York. In 1999, she was named Indiana Newspaper Photographer of the Year. She currently teaches photography at Heartland Community College in Bloomington, Illinois. (Community Photojournalism in Jasper, Indiana, at The Herald, Saturday, 10:00 a –10:45a

Laura Larson completed the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program after receiving a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her photographs have been exhibited at national and international venues such as SFCamerawork, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Nassauischer Kunst Verein, Wiesbaden, Germany. (Well-Appointed, Friday, 4:00 p – 4:45 p)

Liz Lee was granted an early tenure and promotion decision at SUNY Fredonia in 2003. She currently serves as Associate Chair of her department, a College Senator and an Academic Affairs Committee member. In 2001 Liz proposed and organized the SPE Mentoring Program, which advises SPE members through the academic job process. (Experiences In Academic Survival, Saturday, 10:00 a – 11:45 a)

James Lerager is the photographer/author of “Nuclear History – Nuclear Destiny” (2004) and In the Shadow of the Cloud (1988). He holds a master’s degree in public policy and is the founder/director of the International Photography and Research Project with the University of California, and has had 25 solo exhibitions of his photography. (“Nuclear History – Nuclear Destiny” And Beyond: Documentary Photography, Social Science, And Public Policy, Saturday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a )

Janice Levy is Associate Professor and Chair of the Cinema and Photography Department at Ithaca College, where she has taught since 1987. Professor Levy is the recipient of numerous awards. Through a 1992 Kellogg Fellowship, Levy traveled extensively, developing a relationship with Madagascar that resulted in six extended visits and two significant bodies of work. (Out Of Place, Friday, 9:00 a –9:45 a)

Joan Lyons is the founding coordinator of the Visual Studies Workshop Press, a leading publisher of artists’ books, and is on the faculty of the MFA Program at the Visual Studies Workshop. Her work ranges from books to digital and photographic media and is grounded in the understanding that photography and print developed simultaneously and, in all their permutations, are inextricably connected. (Representations and Other Visual Narratives, Friday, 1:00 p – 1:45 p)

Stephen Marc, raised in Chicago, is currently Professor at Arizona State University. From 1978-1998, he was faculty at Columbia College in Chicago (1978-1998). His work has been widely exhibited and he has published two photographic books Urban Notions (1983) and The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience (1992). Marc’ s ongoing work is documenting the Underground Railroad. (Digital Documentary: Communities and Historic Sites, Friday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Lawrence McFarland is Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He currently coordinates and hosts a summer study abroad program in Italy. McFarland has exhibited and published his work internationally and has been the recipient of three NEA grants and is an active member of SPE, currently on the national board of directors. (Study Abroad: Bridging the Educational Gap, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Gary Metz teaches at RISD where he is currently departmental head. Metz has lectured and exhibited widely in over ninety group shows and thirty solo shows. He has published articles on theory and criticism and co-authored one book. A two-time recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Metz’s photographs are represented in museum collections. (Quaking Aspen: Populuus Tremuloides-Observations Made In A Reciprocal Landscape, Saturday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a)

Therese Mulligan, PhD, is Professor and Coordinator of the MFA in Imaging Arts in Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. She also serves as Director of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Gallery. Prior to coming to RIT, she worked for eight years as the Curator of Photography at George Eastman House. (The Colorama: Envisioning a National Identity In The Postwar Era, Saturday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a)

Kenda North is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and head of the photography program. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and is in over 30 public collections. She has served on the SPE Board of Directors as well as the Board of the National Council of Art Administrators. (Study Abroad: Bridging the Educational Gap, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Over the past decade, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have built a body of work that addresses environment, technology, alienation and the human spirit. Robert ParkeHarrison has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Massachusetts Cultural Grants. Their works are in numerous collections and a solo exhibition, sponsored by the George Eastman House, is traveling through 2007. (The Work We Make: Content and Collaboration, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:45 a)

Janet Pritchard teaches photography at the University of Connecticut. For more than twenty-five years, her work has centered on the land, exploring personal and social histories. Her current work uses traditional and digital tools. In addition to being an active artist and educator, she is raising three sons with her life partner Judith Thorpe. (Seeking Home, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45)

Susan R. Ressler is an artist and educator who has edited/developed the distance learning course and book Women Artists of the American West (McFarland, 2003). Ressler’s photographs and digital art have been widely exhibited; she has received two NEA fellowships and is Professor of Photography at Purdue University. (Women Photographers In California: A Tribute To Peter E. Palmquist, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Kathleen Robbins has an MFA degree from the University of New Mexico. She is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. (1000 Beautiful Things, Friday, 1:00 p – 1:45 p)

E. Brady Robinson received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited video, installation and photography work nationally, including the Aspen Museum of Art, and teaches at Georgetown , George Washington University and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. (Place Located Within Self And Culture, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45 a)

Meridel Rubenstein is currently the Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith College. She created the photography programs at the College of Santa Fe and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and headed the photography program at San Francisco State University. Her monograph BELONGING will appear next fall. She lives in New Mexico and Vermont. (Belonging - Los Alamos to Vietnam - Photoworks and Installations 1980-2000, Friday, 4:00 p – 4:45 p)

Dan Schlapbach received a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University in 1996. He is currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Photography Program at Loyola College in Maryland. His work has been exhibited nationally including a presentation at the 1996 New York Film Festival. (A Stereoscopic Journey Through the Land of Uz, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Lauren Shaw received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of regional grants from the NEA and Emerson College where she is Associate Professor and head of the photographic program. She is also co-founder of New England Women in Photography and co-chair of the national conference in 1997. (Maine Women: Living On the Land- the Evolution of A Photographic Project, From Concept to Museum Installation, Friday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Marni Shindelman is in her second year as Assistant Professor and Associate of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester. She received an MFA from the University of Florida in 2002 and holds a Bachelor of Philosophy from Miami University of Ohio. (Experiences In Academic Survival, Saturday, 10:00 a – 11:45 a)

Monique Silverman is Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. She teaches photography, cultural studies and interactive arts, and is currently working on a curatorial project on gendered representations in landscape photography. Her photographic practice addresses identity in the context of place. (Converging On The ‘Real’: Photographs And Literature Of The American Civil War, Friday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a)

George Slade, an independent historian of photography living in St. Paul, has written about Mertin’s work, curated a memorial exhibition and is coordinating the institutional placement of the Mertin Archives. Slade has run the McKnight Foundation Photography fellowships program since 1998, and is Artistic Director for the Minnesota Center for Photography, known as pARTS. (Home And Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys, Friday, 10 a – 10:45 a)

Alexandra Staub studied architecture at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany. Her PhD is on the development of the postwar West German single-family house. She taught architecture for six years in Cottbus, Germany, and currently is a professor in the Department of Architecture at Penn State University. (Capitalist Culture Imaged, Friday, 9:00 a – 10:45)

Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the field of marketing fine art photographers. She is an expert in career development and consulting. She was the founder of Swanstock, an innovative agency managing licensing rights for artists. She lectures frequently and reviews work nationwide at venues including PhotoPlus Expo, Review Americas, Fotofest, Review Santa Fe and the Rhubarb Festival in England. She has taught professional practices workshops and classes at the School of Visual Arts, New York University, Pratt Institute and the University of Arizona. (Student Seminar, Thursday, 9:00 a – 1:00 p)

Teresa Tamura, assistant professor of photojournalism in the School of Photojournalism at the University of Montana, holds an MFA from the University of Washington. She has worked as a staff photographer for several daily newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, Morning Call (Allentown, PA) and The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho). (Remnants: The Minidoka Internment, Friday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Joyce Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time, creating work that explores archetypes through combining portraiture and mythology. Tenneson’s award-winning work, exhibited and published widely, is in numerous private and museum collections. She is the author of seven books, and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. (Adventures In Photographic Book Publishing, Friday, 1:00 p – 2:45 p)

Anthony Thompson is an associate professor of photography and visual studies in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. (Incendiary Iconography: The Legacy Of The Cold War In America, Friday, 2:00 p – 2: 45 p)

George F. Thompson is president and publisher of the Center for American Places (www.aericanplaces.org), and the author/editor of five books, including Landscape in America and Ecological Design and Planning. Of the more than 200 books he has brought to publication, nearly a third have won publishing prizes and awards, including the best book of non-fiction published in the U.S. and top book honors in 27 academic fields. (Adventures In Photographic Book Publishing, Friday, 1:00 p – 2:45 p)

Nick Tobier is an artist and writer with interests, attention and affection for the lives of everyday places. If you trust yourself to speculate, everyday places can be extraordinary. (Scenic Backdrop or Starring Role? The Role Of The Background In The Foreground Of Social Status, Saturday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Alejandro Tomas, director of Seattle's Central Commercial Photography Program, is a former combat cameraman, a member of the White House Press Corps and has had assignments for Time, Newsweek and Forbes. (Blue Earth Alliance: Supporting Photographers Wanting To Make A Difference, Saturday, 10:00 a – 10:45 a)

Anna Tomczak earned an MFA from the University of Florida. She has received numerous fellowships and grants including artist-in-residence at Loft Nota Bene in Cadaques, Spain and the National Endowment for the Artist in Education residency. Her work is represented in museum collections and corporate collections. (Study Abroad: Bridging The Educational Gap, Saturday, 2:00 p – 2:45 p)

Toshi Ueshina I first studied photography at San Francisco Art Institute, afterwards I moved back to Kyoto, Japan. In 1995, Mark Klett called me in Japan, while he was working on a grant project. Because of this meeting, I had a great desire to visit the Southwest. With this desire, I packed my bags, and began the masters program at Arizona State University in 1996. I graduated in 1999. (Enghi Journey, Saturday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a)

Liz Wells edited The Photography Reader (2003), Photography, A Critical Introduction (2000; 3rd ed, 2004) and co-edited Shifting Horizons, Women’s Landscape Photography Now (2000). She has published widely on photography within visual culture and lectures in Media Arts, University of Plymouth, UK. (Facing East: Contemporary Landscape Photography From Baltic Areas, Friday, 1:00 p – 1:45 p)

Ken White has held academic positions at Princeton, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Illinois and RIT. Currently RIT is one of the largest photography faculties in the country where Ken serves as BFA Program Chair with eleven full-time, three untenured and five adjunct faculty. (Experiences In Academic Survival, Saturday, 10:00 a – 11:45 a)

William E. Williams is a professor and curator at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. His photographs have been exhibited and collected widely. He has also organized over seventy exhibitions and received prestigious fellowships. In addition to serving on the national board of SPE and the executive committee, Williams chaired the 1998 national conference in Philadelphia. (The Underground Railroad Made Visible, Saturday, 11:00 a – 11:45 a)

Michelle L. Woodward is an independent scholar and researcher on photography, with an emphasis on the Middle East. She is photo editor for Middle East Report, photo researcher for an independent documentary film Holy Land: Common Ground, and a photographer with a particular interest in abandoned industrial sites. (Between Orientalist Tropes And Images Of Modernization: Photographing The Ottoman Empire, Friday, 9:00 a – 9:45 a)

Dr. James L. Yarnall teaches art and architectural history as Assistant Professor at Salve Regina University. He is an editor for the Newport Historical Society and its journal. His copious writings include a monograph on a major American artist who lived at Paradise, along with a forthcoming book on Newport architecture. (It’s Just Paradise, Saturday, 3:00 p – 3:45 p)

Janet Zandy, professor of language at Rochester Institute of Technology, is the author of three books on working-class culture: Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings (Rutgers 1990), Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness (Rutgers 1995), What We Hold in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies (The Feminist Press 2001). Two more books are forthcoming. (Ghostly Workplaces And Displaced Workers: Representations Of The Changing Landscape Of Labor, Friday, 10:00 a – 10:45 a)

This list of bios is tentative. The final list will be printed in the 2004 Conference Program Guide and will be available at the conference.