Join Carl Fuldner and Rebecca Zorach for a program exploring glass lantern slides and the materiality of image archives.

In their brief talks, Carl and Rebecca will offer personal reflections on how working with glass lantern slides has shaped visual knowledge over generations and what is lost or gained as reproductive photographic technology developed throughout the twentieth century and into the digital age. The program will offer a chance to see glass lantern slides, formerly part of the Department of Art History Slide Library and now part of the Joel Snyder Materials Collection.

Presented in partnership with the Visual Resources Center, University of Chicago Department of Art History.

Free, no registration required.

Carl Fuldner is an art historian and curator whose practice engages with the history of photography, environmental toxicology, and the intersections of art and natural history. Currently, he is Assistant Instructional Professor in the UChicago’s Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, Photography, American Art.

Rebecca Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. She teaches and writes on early modern European art (15th-17th century), contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s Chicago.

Image: Glass lantern slides depicting villas in Tivoli and Bagnaia, Joel Snyder Materials Collection, ex. col. Department of Art History Slide Library.