Douglas Nickel

Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of Modern Art:
History of Art & Architecture
Phone: +1 401 863 1175
Douglas_Nickel@brown.edu

Professor Nickel specializes in the history of photography and modern art. His current research looks at the relationship between science, art, metaphysics, and photography, and the role of the viewer in constructing photographic meaning.

Biography

My area of concentration within the field of art history is the history of photography. I studied modern art and photography at Princeton, under Prof. Peter Bunnell, and was awarded a doctoral degree in 1995. I served ten years as a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where I organized traveling exhibitions on the work of Carleton Watkins and Lewis Carroll as well as projects investigating themes such as the snapshot. Prior to my arrival at Brown, I was director of the Center for Creative Photography and associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Awards

Historians of British Art Book Prize (2004), College Art Association, for Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad

Second Place Award for photography books, the Bookbinder's Guild of New York; "Top 100 Books of 2002," Toronto Globe and Mail, for Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll (2003)

Community Associates Research Fellow, Art Institute of Chicago (2002)

Curriculum Vitae

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