FACULTY
Terri Weissman
Assistant Professor
Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art, and the History of Photography and other lens-based media
Teaching areas:
20th and 21st century Art, New Media, Critical Theory, History of Photography, History of Documentary
Degrees:
BA, Oberlin College; MA, Columbia University; PhD, Columbia University
Terri Weissman, Assistant Professor of Art History, specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art, and the History of Photography. Her book, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott (forthcoming UC Press, 2010), examines the politics as well as the successes and failures of Abbott’s realist, communicatively oriented model of documentary photography. She has also co-curated (with Jessica May and Sharon Corwin) a major traveling exhibition titled American Modern: documentary photographs by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White. The exhibition, scheduled to open at the Amon Carter Museum in 2010, will be accompanied by a catalog (forthcoming UC Press, 2010) that further investigates questions of documentary photography’s efficacy and political resonance. She has also published on contemporary artists such as Gabriel Orozco and Maria Magdalena Compos Pons, as well as on the cultural impact of disasters such as September 11th. Her work has been supported by the Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center, the Smithsonian, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Center for the Study of Modern Art at The Phillips Collection, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Selected Work
"Berenice Abbott's Scientific Photographs," catalog essay, Berenice Abbott (Paris: Jeu de Paume, forthcoming 2011)
The Realisms of Berenice Abbott (UC Press, forthcoming Fall 2010) ed. (with Jessica May and Sharon Corwin)
American Modern: documentary photographs by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White (UC Press, forthcoming, Fall 2010)
"The Spectacle of Trauma: 9/11 in the Museum," Visual Resources XXI, no. 2 (June 2005), 1-20
