Rupert Nuttle

Rupert Nuttle

First Name: 
Rupert
Last Name: 
Nuttle
Title: 
PhD Candidate (he/him)
Biography : 

Rupert Nuttle (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the department of Art History at the University of Toronto. His archival research situates the materialisms of photography at the turn of the twentieth century in connection to the growth of corporate imperialist societies in the West.

Education: 
MA, Art History, University of Toronto, 2020
MJ, Carleton University, 2017
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2013

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Areas of Interest: 
  • 19th-century visual culture
  • History and theory of photography
  • Vexations, errata, and nonhuman agency in early photography
  • Chronophotography and the moving image
  • Photography, surveillance, and docile bodies
  • Colonialism, settler colonialism, and decolonization
  • History of science
  • New materialisms

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Dissertation Title: 
Consumer Desire, History Dreaming: The Early Years of Goodrich Rubber Company in Photographs
Dissertation Supervisors: 
Mark Cheetham
Dissertation Description: 

 

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