Robin Kelsey

Robin Kelsey is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, specializing in the History of Photography and American Art. He is the author of Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 (2007, University of California Press). He is currently working on two books, Photography and Chance, which will also be published by University of California Press, and Viewed with Suspicion: Photography in America, 1959-1976. He has written or lectured on various subjects, including landscape theory, eco-criticism, and early cinema. His article in the Art Bulletin, "Viewing the Archive: Timothy H. O'Sullivan's Photographs from the Wheeler Survey, 1871-1874," won the 2004 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize. In 2006, he won the Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching at Harvard.

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