Louis Kaplan (Co-Organizer)

Louis Kaplan is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media in the Graduate Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto and an associate faculty member in the collaborative Ph.D. program in Jewish Studies. He also coordinates the Visual Culture and Communication program at the University of Toronto at Mississauga where he is a member of the Centre for Visual and Media Culture. Kaplan has also taught at Tufts University and Southern Illinois University and he has held international post-doctoral fellowships in Jerusalem and Berlin . Professor Kaplan has published widely in the fields of art history, visual culture, photo studies, and in Jewish studies where he has published essays on such topics as Frederic Brenner, Clement Greenberg, Holocaust humor, Albert Einstein, and Walter Rathenau. He curated the contemporary art exhibition Distinguishing Jewish dealing with issues of Jewish identity held in Boston in 2000. He is the author of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings (Duke, 1995) and his new book American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century (for which he received a SSHRC research grant) is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in November. Kaplan's essay on Wallace Berman and his film Aleph will be published in the volume Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke, 2006).

Webpage: http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/faculty/kaplan.html