TERRI WEISSMAN is Associate Professor and Chair of the program in art history at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She teaches modern and contemporary art history, the history of photography, and the history of design; she is also affiliated with the University of Illinois’ Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory.

 

Weissman is the author of The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action (University of California Press, 2011), which examines the successes and failures of Abbott’s realist, communicatively oriented model of documentary photography. She also served as the co-curator and co-author (with Sharon Corwin and Jessica May) for the exhibition and accompanying publication American Modern: Documentary Photographs by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White (University of California Press, 2010). Her most recent book, Global Photography: A Critical History (co-authored with Erina Duganne and Heather Diack) will be available in July 2020 (Bloomsbury, 2020). Her articles and reviews have appeared in edited volumes such as Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present and journals such as Arts, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Third Text, Visual Resources, Media-N, caa.reviews, ArtNexus, and American Historical Review.

 

Weissman’s current book-length project considers the meaning of evidence and role of representation in relation to how state-sanctioned violence against black and brown bodies, and other vulnerable populations, has been pictured in the 21st century.