Dr. Carrie Cushman - December, 2019
“Time seems to grow at Surf Point. Everyday there was rich in productivity, contemplation, and personal and professional growth.”
Dr. Carrie Cushman joins Surf Point for a residency during the third week of December. Carrie joined the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in September of 2018 for a three-year term appointment as the Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography. She has a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and is a specialist in the history of photography in Japan. Her dissertation is titled "Temporary Ruins: Miyamoto Ryuji's Architectural Photography in Postmodern Japan." As the Gruber Fellow, Carrie is responsible for teaching and curating with the Davis Museum's permanent holdings in photography, collaborating with faculty across disciplines, and curating special exhibitions. In fall 2018, she organized the exhibition Bread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anne Rogovin, to highlight a recent gift to the Davis of 250 vintage prints by Milton Rogovin; for fall 2019, she curated Recent Acquisitions: New Photographs, featuring the work of Haley Morris-Cafiero and Habiba Nowrose, two emerging female photographers Cushman brought into the Davis holdings. For spring 2020, she will realize two ambitious and conceptually conjoined exhibitions. Making, Not Taking: Portrait Photography in the 19th Century recreates the environment of a nineteenth-century portrait studio amidst selections from the Davis’s collection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes.
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