Faculty
Josh Ellenbogen
(PhD, University of Chicago) Assistant Professor, history of photography
Room 118A, Frick Fine Arts Building
Phone: 412-648-2101
E-mail: jme23@pitt.edu
On leave until September 2006
Josh Ellenbogen is a professor in history of photography and modern art. Trained also as an intellectual historian and a historian of science, he received his PhD in art history from the University of Chicago in August 2005. His dissertation, “Photography and the Imperceptible: Bertillon, Galton, Marey,” concerned uses of photography in 19th-century scientific representation. He is currently producing articles on Galton and Marey, turning his dissertation into a book, and organizing an exhibition at the University of Chicago on the panoramic photography of Timothy O’Sullivan and William Bell.
Selected publications:
“Inhuman Sight: Photographs and Panoramas in the Nineteenth Century”
“Representational Theory and the Staging of Social Performance”
Honors/awards:
Gould Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History of Science
Current projects:
“Camera and Mind: Marey’s Images and the Photography of the Invisible” (article)
Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: Bertillon, Galton, Marey (book)