Art History faculty, students, and families celebrate the graduates with a Zoom toast on May 17, 2020.
The Art History department congratulates this year’s graduating BA students!
Alyssa Abesamis
Denilson Alvarez
Jess Brody
Nathan Goldberg
Aliza Hornblass
Emily Jelen
Nikhil Jani
Veronica Liszewski
Claire McLagan
Thomas Pellegrino
Caelum Rogers
Kelly Ryan
John James Santiago
Art History major Caelum Rogers will be presenting a paper on April 18 at the second annual SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium:
A Century of Photography: History of Japanese Photographic Expression in the Past 100 Years and the Legacy of Realism in Post-War Japan
This presentation aims to situate the exhibition, A Century of Photography: History of Japanese Photographic Expression in the Past 100 Years, held in Tokyo in 1968, within the larger context of twentieth-century debates in Japan on the nature and role of photographic realism. It examines the central roles played by Taki Koji and Nakahira Takuma in shaping the way that the history of Japanese photography was presented in the exhibition, and the close relationship between that history and the larger photo-critical project Taki and Nakahira pursued in their short-lived photo-magazine, Provoke. Tracing the development of realist photographic aesthetics in the period before 1945, the presentation seeks to show how that aesthetic laid the basis for the dominant forms of post-war Japanese photography. It was an aesthetic challenged, however, by Taki and Nakahira, and analysis of the structure of the 1968 exhibition shows that the exhibition’s narrative of history directly engaged contemporary aesthetic and political debates around photography through Taki and Nakahira’s use of nineteenth-century archival photography to critique Japanese photography’s claims to truth and to offer a radically different understanding of photographic realism.
Junior Art History major Peter Farquharson was recently featured in Discover-e for his summer research on political meaning in South American murals. Read more here.
Event is co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Art History Association
L-R: Emily Greenberg, Annemarie Maag-Tanchak, and Erin Livingston celebrate at commencement.
The Art History department congratulates this year’s graduating BA students!
Olivia Baerga
Marisa Davila
Jennifer Dioguardi
Emma Fishbein
Emily Greenberg
Erin Livingston (honors)
Annemarie Maag-Tanchak
Keara McAdams
Lauren Rachel Poretsky
Thomas Rice
Sabrina Soffer
Congratulations to Art History major Emily Jelen, who has received the President’s Award for Undergraduate Student Excellence. The award recognizes students who have enriched the Binghamton University community through a record of accomplishment and leadership in such areas as scholarship, student life, and community life, all of which reflect the University’s purposes and priorities.
Junior Emily Jelen, who is a double major in Art History and Biology, was recently featured in Harpur Student Spotlight for her summer research on Moorish revival synagogue architecture. Read more here.
