Devlin Hall 434B
Telephone: 617-552-4295
Email: asher.anderson@bc.edu
History of Photography
Contemporary Photography
Early American Art
Photography and Modernism
Senior Research Seminar
Ash Anderson's research and teaching examine the history of photography from its origins to the present, with a particular focus on the medium's relationship to Modernism and the experimental work produced by photographers associated with the Institute of Design in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the curator of "Paris Night and Day: Photography Between the Wars" in 2014, and co-curator of "Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" in 2018 and "Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89" in 2022 at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art. He also co-curated the exhibitions "Again: Serial Practices in Contemporary Art" at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and "From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry" and "What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection," at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Co-editor and contributor, Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977-1989, McMullen Museum of Art, 2020.
Co-editor and contributor, Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, McMullen Museum of Art, 2018.
Book review, “Father Browne’s Dublin: Photographs 1925-1950,” and “Father Browne’s Donegal,” Journal of Jesuit Studies, volume 4, issue 1, 2016.
Book review, “Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited,” Journal of Religion and the Arts, 2016.
Essays on Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Arthur Siegel in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston catalogue Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Yale University Press, 2015.
Book review, “Frank Browne: A Life Through the Lens,” Journal of Jesuit Studies, volume 2, issue 3, 2015.
Introductory essay, From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry, Ash Anderson, Richard Benson, et al, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008.
Juror and Moderator, Visual Culture Consortium Undergraduate Art History Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2020-2021.
Lecture, “Sophie Calle’s Suite Vénitienne” How We See: Photobooks by Women, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 10, 2019
Lecture, “Crash Course in the History of Photography” Boston College, October 4, 2018
Lecture, “The Grandmother of Photography: Imogen Cunningham’s Legacy and Influence” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 28 and March 2, 2017.
Respondent to Robin Kelsey, “Ted Serios (who?) and the Death of Modernism” American Literature and Culture Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 20, 2016.