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Peter Hales Department of Art History (M/C 201) Education
Academic PostionsCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Northwestern University
University of Illinois, Chicago
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PublicationsBooksSilver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984 William Henry Jackson. London: Macdonald and Co., Ltd., 1984 William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1843–1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988 (softcover edition, 1996) (with Mark Klett, photographer) One City/Two Visions: San Francisco. San Francisco: Bedford Arts Publishers, 1990 Constructing the Fair: Charles Dudley Arnold and the World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993 (with Bob Thall, photographer) The Perfect City: Photographs and Meditations. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1997 Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939. Revised and expanded version of 1984 original. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. (coauthored with Stu Cohen) The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration.. Boston: David R. Godine, 2007. Chapters in Books“Sublime Commodity: The Nineteenth Century American Landscape,” in A Certain Slant of Light: The Contemporary American Landscape. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute, 1989, pp. 10–21 “American Photography and the Romance of Modernization,” commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum for Photography in Nineteenth Century America New York and Fort Worth: Amon Carter and Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1991) [Book of the Month Club Selection], pp. 204–258 “Topographies of Power: The Forced Spaces of the Manhattan Project,” in Steiner and Franklin, eds., Mapping American Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992 “Life Presents the Atomic Bomb,” in Erika Doss, ed., Looking at Life, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001 “Claiming Space: Photography and the Great Race,” in 2001: Designing for Outer Space. Chicago: Abrams/Art Institute of Chicago, 2001 “Ideal Cities at the Turns of the Centuries,” in Three Cities: Essays on New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Birmingham, England: University of Birmingham Press, 2001 Selected Articles, Essays, and Photographic Essays“The Hidden Hand: Jacob Riis and the Rhetoric of Reform Photography,” Exposure: The Quarterly Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Fall, 1982, XX:3, pp. 52–57 “The MFA Syndrome: A Gentle Jeremiad,”Exposure: The Quarterly Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Winter, 1982, XX:4, pp. 26–28 (with Robert Bruegmann) “LaSalle Street”, Chicago History, Spring, 1986 “Landscape and Documentary: Questions of Rephotography,” Afterimage, Summer, 1987, pp. 10–14 “Photography and the World’s Columbian Exposition: A Case Study,” Journal of Urban History, Spring, 1989, pp. 247–273 “Deconstructing October: The Rise of a ‘Postmodern’ Photography Criticism,” Journal of the Society for Contemporary Photography Annual, 1989, unpaginated “Social Work: Rites and Rituals at the Charity Balls,” in Changing Chicago, (Focus/Infinity Fund and the Chicago Historical Society, 1990) “The Atomic Sublime,” American Studies, Spring, 1991 “Surveying the Field: Artists Make Art History,” Artjournal, Fall 1995, pp. 35–41 “Discipline/Survey,” Artjournal, Fall 1995, pp. 65–69 “The Mass Aesthetic of Holocaust: American Media Construct the Atomic Bomb,” Yearbook of the Japanese Association for American Studies, 1996 “New Landscapes of the Physical and Virtual,” Bulletin of the Allen Art Museum, Spring/Summer 2001 “Virtual Cities: Redefining the Urban Experience in the Physical and the Virtual at the Turn of the Millennium,” in The European Journal of American Studies, Fall, 2001 Selected Webpages and Internet ProjectsThe Chicago Imagebase Project. begun in 1995 and codirected with Bob Bruegmann, this project has now moved its institutional home to the City Design Center Levittown: Images of an Ideal Suburb. This project involves the solicitation of materials from founders and residents of one of America’s most significant postwar suburban developments; the material is then the basis for a collaborative work of public history Artifacts and Fiction. A workshop-based teacher-training project of the Annenberg Foundation's Learner.org program. For further web projects, move directly to the home page at http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/ Selected Reviews“St. Louis and the Arch—Joel Meyerowitz,” Exposure: The Quarterly Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Fall, 1982, XX:3, pp. 59–60 “John Kouwenhoven’s Half A Truth...,” Design Issues, I,1, 1983 “Andrew Lees, Cities Perceived,” Journal of American History, Spring, 1986 “Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream,” Afterimage, February, 1987 “Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs,” Journal of American History, Spring, 1990 “Annual Photography Book Roundup,” The Sunday New York Times Magazine, November 1, 1991 “Leonard Freed, Leonard Freed: Photographs, 1954–1990,” The Sunday New York Times Magazine, June, 1992 “Marianne Doezema, George Bellows,” Journal of American History, June, 1993 “Hal Rothman, On Rims and Ridges: Los Alamos,” Technology and Culture, Spring, 1994 “Angela Miller, The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825–1875,” Journal of American History, Fall, 1994 “Jonathan Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography,” Journal of American History, Winter, 1996 “David Nye, Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies”, American Quarterly, Winter, 1999 “Douglas Waitley, William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier”, Great Plains Quarterly, Winter, 1999 “Joshua Brown, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life and the Crisis of Gilded Age America”, Reviews in American History, 32:2 (2004) “Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform”, Technology and Culture,48: 2 (2007) “Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August, 2007 Selected Papers“Photographs and the Question of ‘Evidence’,” National Convention, American Society for Ethnohistory, Austin, Texas, 1978 “The Hidden Hand: Jacob Riis’s Photographs,” National Convention, College Art Association, New York, 1982 “Black Mountain College and the Roots of American Postmodern Thought,” Ninth Biennial Convention, American Studies Association, Philadelphia, 1983 “Confronting the Globe: William Henry Jackson and the World’s Transportation Commission, 1892–1898,” Ninth Biennial Convention, American Studies Association, Philadelphia, 1983 “Ruins and the Rhetoric of American City-Building, 1800–1915,” Canadian Centre for Architecture/National Gallery of Canada 1st Annual International Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, 1984 “Signs and the City: Visual Artifacts, Semiotics, and Urban History,” Columbia University Seminars on the City, 1986 “Photography and American Urbanization,” National Conference, American Historical Association, Chicago, 1986 “Deconstructing October,” Annual Conference, Midwest Chapter of the Society for Photographic Education, 1987 “The Atomic Sublime,” Tenth Biennial Convention, American Studies Association, New York, 1987 “Atomic Spaces: Geography, Mythology and the Manhattan Project,” California American Studies Association, 1990 “Visual Artifacts of the Manhattan Project,” National Convention, American Studies Association, New Orleans, 1990 “Myths, Institutions and the Atomic Culture: 1939–1991,” featured lecture in yearlong symposium-series, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991 “Pictures at the Site: A Case Study,” National Convention, American Studies Association, Baltimore, 1991 “Atomic Spaces: The Manhattan Project,” Casper Humanities Conference/Wyoming Humanities Festival, 1993 “Downtown: City Pictures” University of Illinois Faculty Colloquium, 1994 “Atomic Spaces: Consequences of the Manhattan Project,” University Scholars Colloquium, Chicago, April, 1995 “Transgressive Boundaries: Alfredo Jaar and the Politics of Postmodernism,” Beaumont Newhall Lecture, University of New Mexico, May, 1995 “The Aesthetics of Holocaust: American Mass Media and the Iconography of the Atomic Bomb,” Sendai, Japan: Japanese Association for American Studies International Convention, June, 1995 “Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Mass Images of Holocaust in Japan and America,” Tokyo University, June, 1995 “‘Images Have A Peculiar Religion: They Bury History’: Alfredo Jaar and the Cenotaphs of Postmodern Political Art,” Visiting Critics Series, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, October, 1995 “The Mass Aesthetic of Atomic Holocaust: Life Presents the Atomic Bomb,” “Looking At Life,” Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, November, 1995 “Public Arts in Public Places: Contests and Spectacles in Block 37,” American Studies Association, Washington, DC, 1997 “Temporary and Permanent Topographies: San Francisco Photographs, 1845–1907,” Pacific Arcadia Symposium, Stanford University, 1999 “Instantiating Urban Space: Forms of Representation and the Redefining of Chicago at the Fin-de-Siecle” Plenary Paper and Opening Speech, The Three Cities Conference, Birmingham, England, September 3, 1999 “Reconstructing the 19th Century American City: Lilienthal’s Photographs of New Orleans, 1867,” for the Southeast Architectural Archives/Tulane University Lecture Series, October, 2000 “Traffic and Weather Together on the ‘8s’: Archaeology, Theology and Poetics of the Chicago Freeway,” for the lecture series Freeways, Rice University Design Alliance/ University of Houston College of Architecture, October, 2000 “The Perils of Teaching in Contemporary Cyberculture,” keynote speech, TESOL Italy National Conference, Assisi, November, 2000 “Cities’ Images in Cyberculture’s Age,” University of Rome, November, 2000 “New Forms of Literacy in Contemporary Cyberculture,” Il Circolo, Milan, November, 2000 “From Prairie to Sky: Representing Chicago as Model City at the Ends of Two Centuries,” Milan Polytechnic University, November, 2000 “Liberating Literacy in Global Cyberculture,” University of Macerata, Italy, November, 2000 “Cultural Programs: Unpacking The Sims”, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November, 2001 Selected ExhibitionsFourth Street Photo Gallery, New York, 1976 (one-person) Just Imagine Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1977 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1977 California Institute for the Arts, 1979 San Francisco Camerawork, 1981 (one?person) “Grant Park,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1984 Society for Contemporary Photography, 1985 Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, 1985 “Descriptions,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1985 “Road and Roadside,” Museum of Illinois, Springfield, 1987 “Road and Roadside,” Art Institute of Chicago, 1987 “Road and Roadside,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1988 “The Illinois Photographers’ Project,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1987 “Gates of Eden: Americans and the Land,” Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, June and July, 1988 (one-person) “Chicago: Inside and Out,” Art Institute of Chicago, 1989 “Changing Chicago,” Chicago Historical Society, 1989 “New Photography,” The Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998 Works in ProgressQuiet Spaces at the End of the Millennium: Domestic Interiors in the American Suburb. A collection of photographs intended for publication as a book and exhibition as a set. Projected completion: open. Outside the Gates: Intrusions on the American Landscape Since 1945. intended as the next book in the series on the American cultural landscape that began with Silver Cities. Projected completion: Fall of 2009. Virtual Geographies: Around the Globe at the Turn of the Millennium. A group of three shorter, more polemical additions to the series, focusing entirely on current phenomena in the globalization of American culture:
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