01 Nov 2011

A Public Panel on Civil War Photography and History at the City University of New York Graduate Center

IS THERE ANYTHING MORE TO SEE?
Civil War Photography and History

Thursday November 3rd, 6:00 pm
Martin Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (betwn 34th and 35th St.), NYC

In this third program in 'Still Hazy After All These Years,' a series of public panels marking the sesquicentennial of the start of the U.S. Civil War, a panel of noted historians and art historians addresses the persistence of photography's influence over the vision of the Civil War, and what remains to be learned from the medium and the war's visual record. The panelists will discuss, among other questions, photography's impact on Americans' perceptions of the conflict in the past and how the meanings and uses of the visualization of the war have changed over time.

* Anthony Lee, Mount Holyoke College
* Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans
* Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University
* Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

This program is sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, the Center for the Humanities, the Ph.D. Program in History, and the Ph.D. Program in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This program is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

For more information on this event and the series:
ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/photography/