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U. photography colloquium takes fresh ideas from faces new, old ABNER BONILLA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A roundtable discussion of graduate students, professors and a visiting scholar was held on the sixth floor of the Academic Building on Friday to answer one question: how do we explain the history of photography today? The first annual graduate student symposium titled “Writing the Histories of Photography” was captured by the Center for Cultural Analysis, the Department of Art Histor y and the Developing Room — a group founded in 2008 and devoted to the study and practice of photography. The symposium was held in a collaborative spirit. From the start of the event, a total of seven graduate students presented their dissertations that were aimed at helping photography scholars understand and spark new ideas on how to document photographs today. For Andrés Mario Zervigón, a main organizer of the event and an associate professor of photography in the Department of Art History, the symposium was a way to expose students researching photography to different methods used by other graduates in hopes that they could learn from each other. The symposium also brought Dr. Steffen Siegel, a professor of the theory and histor y of photography at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany, into the mix to offer an “outside voice,” Zervigón said. Siegel has authored publications that span photography’s history, such as “First Exposures: Writing from the Beginning of Photography” to “Belichtungen: Zur fotografischen Gegenwart,” a book on photography’s contemporary practice. “I always want some kind of outside voice to be present … someone
Andrés Mario Zervigón is the main organizer behind the “Writing the Histories of Photography.” For him, the symposium is a way to intersect students researching photography with other disciplines in a collaborative learning environment. RUTGERS.EDU who doesn’t know who’s presenting and can offer a different perspective,” Zervigón said. The symposium was also an opportunity to bring graduates from cross disciplines into the same room. Donata Panizza, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian, presented her research on the Alinari brothers, a sibling trio in mid19th century Italy who aimed to photographically reproduce major works of Italian art, like paintings, architecture and sculpture.
In 1854, the brothers founded a photographic business called Fratelli Alinari Fotografi Editori, and through their work, photographs captured of Italian landscapes and cityscapes are still reproduced today. In total, the Alinari holding has more than 100,000 photographs. Panizza said she appreciated the opportunity to present her work to different minds. She said while doing her dissertation work, she only had the opportunity to
present her work to cinema or film study scholars but never had the chance to show it to photography specialists and get their take on her work. She said her discussion with other graduate students gave her new ideas on how to better frame the photography portion of her dissertation work for future research. Another dissertation presentation was by Nicholas Morgan from Columbia University. His research tackled contemporar y
photographer Mark Morrisroe’s work. Morrisroe, who was diagnosed with AIDS, died at the age of 30 in Jersey City, but his intimate and often dark room-altered photographs helped the development of the 1970s punk scene in Boston and the art boom of the mid-to-late 80s in New York, Morgan said. Because of Morrisroe’s fascination with the dark room process in photography, he made several innovations. One being the “sandwich” print that was done from stacking a color 35 millimeter photograph over a black-andwhite 35 millimeter photograph of the same image together. The result was a hazy, painterly print that made his photographs unique. During Morgan’s presentation, he made references to other techniques that Morrisroe used like slight tear marks at the end of some of his photographs. In discussion, other graduate students helped Morgan piece together Morrisroe’s techniques that could have been inspired by other photographers like 19th century English photographer Anna Atkins. Atkins is attributed as the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images and even the first woman to create a photograph. Other dissertation presentations included Stella Jungmann from the Institute of Art Histor y University of Zurich, Anne S. Cross from the University of Delaware, Emily Doucet from the University of Toronto and Margaret Innes from Har vard University. To conclude the symposium, Siegel gave final remarks to all of the presenters, remarked on how he perceived some of the presentations and his opinion on what they could do to improve their dissertation presentations next time.
Rutgers hosts panel on marijuana legalization KHOA NGUYEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In the United States, an arrest for a drug-related crime occurs ever y 20 seconds. There were more than 1.57 million drug arrests and approximately half of them were marijuana-related, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. The Criminal Justice Organization recently held a professor discussion panel regarding the legalization of marijuana and the war on drugs. The panel was moderated by the organization’s president,
Sebastien Osiecki, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The panel included professors Paul Hirschfield and Philip Nettl in the Department of Criminal Justice, Professor Patrick Carr, the program director of the Criminal Justice Program, and Professor Helene White in the Department of Sociology. The legalization of recreational marijuana has been a topic of debate and controversy over the years. Hirschfield said that there is not only the aspect of creating and regulating a legal market, but SEE LEGALIZATION ON PAGE 4
Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) passed a bill earlier in the year that allows doctors to prescribe New Jersey residents medical marijuana to treat anxiety, among other ailments, effective immediately. Murphy is leading the charge toward recreational marijuana in the Garden State. TWITTER
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