Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
8-3-2025 4:40 AM
Description
Reimaging: Wendy Red Star’s Indian Congress and the Afterlife of Images
Karen Barber, Assistant Professor of Art History, Anne Arundel Community College
Dr. Karen Barber is an art historian, specializing in the history and theory of photography and Modern art. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Anne Arundel Community College, and previously was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi. She is also a contributing editor for twentieth-century photography at Smarthistory/Khan Academy. Her research explores interwar photography, photobooks, photographic exhibitions, and photography as it relates to Native America within the context of, and as a means of upsetting, traditional settler colonialist narratives. She has also worked in significant photography collections in numerous American art museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Barber, Karen, "Reimaging: Wendy Red Star’s Indian Congress and the Afterlife of Images" (2025). Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025. 70.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2025/schedule/70
Reimaging: Wendy Red Star’s Indian Congress and the Afterlife of Images
Reimaging: Wendy Red Star’s Indian Congress and the Afterlife of Images
Karen Barber, Assistant Professor of Art History, Anne Arundel Community College
Dr. Karen Barber is an art historian, specializing in the history and theory of photography and Modern art. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Anne Arundel Community College, and previously was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi. She is also a contributing editor for twentieth-century photography at Smarthistory/Khan Academy. Her research explores interwar photography, photobooks, photographic exhibitions, and photography as it relates to Native America within the context of, and as a means of upsetting, traditional settler colonialist narratives. She has also worked in significant photography collections in numerous American art museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
