Luke Gartlan

Luke joined the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews in 2007. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed international quarterly History of Photography, and co-editor, with Ali Behdad, of Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Getty Research Institute 2013). His research concerns photography and cultural exchange in the nineteenth century, especially with reference to the camera’s role in colonial-era visual culture, histories of travel and exploration, and non-Western responses to photography. He is also engaged in research on Japanese modern visual culture and Japanese-European artistic interactions in the nineteenth century, as well as the visual cultures of the Habsburg Empire.

Luke received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He subsequently taught at the University of Sydney and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna and Nihon University, Tokyo. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 2010, during which he co-organised an international two-day conference on studio photography in Asia. Luke has also been invited to speak at numerous international research centres, including Nagasaki University, the Getty Research Institute, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC.

Luke currently offers modules at the University of St Andrews on ‘Orientalism and Visual Culture’, ‘Histories of Photography, 1835-1905’, and, for the MLitt History of Photography course, ‘Imperial Lens: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Asian Photography’ and ‘Issues in Photographic Criticism’.

For further details, see his staff website at:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arthistory/about/people/?mode=profile&group=staff&user_id=lg321
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