Public Lecture: John Louis Lucaites

Seeing the Public Image Anew: Photography Exhibitions and Civic Spectatorship

This lecture advances the claim that photographic meaning is created as spectators move through the “museum without walls” that is photography’s most comprehensive effect within modern societies. Attention will be directed specifically at the emergence of vernacular and public photographic exhibitions as they animate civic spectatorship.

John Louis Lucaites is co-author of the books No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy  and The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship. He is Provost Professor of Rhetoric in the English Department, Indiana University.

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