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
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.
Selected publications:
"On Photographic Elegy" Essay in edited anthology, Oxford Book of the Elegy (Oxford University Press): in press.
"Authority, Objectivity, Evidence: Scientific Photography in Victorian Britain" Extended Review Essay on Histories of Scientific Photography for Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 39 (Spring, 2008): 170-5.
"Camera and Mind" Essay on Marey in Representations 101 (Winter, 2008): 86-115.
"Inhuman Sight: Photographs and Panoramas in the Nineteenth Century" Essay in One/Many, exh. cat. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006): 55-75.
"Sontag Reconsidered" Extended Review Essay of Sontag’s Critical Writing, Azure 23 (Winter, 2006): 130-8.
Honors/awards:
Gould Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History of Science
Current projects:
"Sense-Impression, Succession, Synthesis: Photography of the fin-de-siècle"
(under review)
Idol Anxiety (edited anthology on idolatry; under contract, Stanford University Press).
Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: Bertillon, Galton, Marey (in preparation)