Join co-authors Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon for a book launch celebrating their recent publication Photography—A Queer History. Dunster and Gordon will discuss how queer photography has developed over time, and across the world, and reflect on the process of curating and publishing an anthology of visual art.
Photography – A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category ‘queer’. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities.
Dunster and Gordon will briefly introduce the book in a short presentation, before being joined for a conversation with Dr Catherine Grant, followed by group discussion and drinks in the Research Forum.
Organised by Dr. Catherine Grant, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Dean for Education, The Courtauld.
Dr. Flora Dunster is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins. With Theo Gordon, she is co-author of Photography—A Queer History. Her writing has appeared in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies, Resist, Organise, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States in the Long 1980s, and Third Text. With Gordon, Fiona Anderson and Laura Guy she is co-editor of a special issue of British Art Studies—“Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s”—forthcoming in Spring 2025.
Dr. Theo Gordon is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History of Art at the University of York, working on a book provisionally titled Viral Landscapes: Art and HIV/AIDS in the UK for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Graduating with a PhD from The Courtauld in 2018, he has written widely on contemporary art, with essays on Helen Chadwick, Douglas Crimp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sunil Gupta, and other artists, forthcoming or published in journals including Oxford Art Journal, Art History, Art Journal and InVisible Culture. As well as co-authoring Photography – A Queer History, he has also edited We Were Here (2022) a book of Gupta’s essays for Aperture, and is co-editing with Dunster, Anderson and Guy, a forthcoming issue of British Art Studies, ‘Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s’, due in 2025.
