Bonnell Robinson
Professional Title: Professor, Director of Exhibitions
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Photography
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Photography, Art History, Director of Exhibitions
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Art in Context; Senior Portfolio in Photography; Contemporary Trends; Cinema Eye, Cinema Art: A History of Film
Education: MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design (1979); BA, English Literature, Columbia University (1971)
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Publications:
- A Timely Encounter: 19th Century Photographs of Japan, “Transition and the Quest for Permanence,” exhibition catalogue. Harvard University and Wellesley College, Cambridge, MA, 1988
- Douglas Chadwick, A Critical Appreciation, exhibition catalogue. The Rockefeller Foundation, Sunrise, West Virginia, 1974
- 19th Century Cartes-de-Visites Portraits, exhibition catalogue. Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1978
Exhibitions:
- No Man’s Land: Landscapes of the Great War, Rick Wester Fine Art, Chelsea, New York, 2010
- No Man’s Land: Landscapes of the Great War, Porter Square Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, 2009
Fun Facts: My own photography is documentary and has focused on landscapes marked by historical events.
Bonnell Robinson is Professor of Photography and Art History at The Art Institute of Boston where she is also the Director of Exhibitions. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her interests include multiple media (photography, film, and video) and the application of critical and cultural theory. Her past photographic work has been exhibited at the Fogg Art Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art, George Eastman House, Smithsonian Institution, and the Houston Center for Photography.
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