A multi-media group show presenting a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, curated by Prof. Susanne Slavick (Carnegie Mellon University). Learn more.
I was part of a panel discussion around guns and gun control following the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history at a music festival in Las Vegas. Listen to the discussion on Connecticut Public.
The 19th century Victorian obsession with a variety of pseudosciences extended to the study of love, sex, and romance. “One of the great myths about the Victorian age [was] that it was sexually repressive; on the contrary, Victorian society was obsessed with sexual reform, heterosexual and homosexual love, lust, and Read more…
In this essay for the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s “Seeing Science: Photography, Science, and Visual Culture,” I examine how images of the environment “serve as both as catalyst and as a mode of understanding. Visual portrayals help shape the context in which a politics takes place, and are often Read more…
In Inside Sources, I write about Donald Trump’s inauguration into not only the presidency, but the assembly of wax figures at Madame Tussauds Museum in London. Wax is a strange medium—both real and unreal, and with a long history since ancient times of representing life and death, truth and deception. Read more…
Featured quarterly 2,000-word peer-reviewed essays on visual history and technology.
In early 2016, I visited The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University College London for two months, as a guest of Birkbeck’s History of Art Department. It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know scholars working in this department, such as Profs. Lynda Nead, Patrizia di Bello, and Steve Read more…
Tucker, “Photographic Migrations: The Tichborne Claimant, Popular Archives, and the ‘Evidence of Camera Pictures,’” in Kelley Wilder and Gregg Mitman, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 22-44.
The NEH Public Scholar program, an initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience. On July 29, 2015, I received a grant worth $50,400 to support research for a new project, provisionally titled Caught on Camera: Read more…
