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Anton Lee
Visiting Assistant Professor

 

 Anton Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor

PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
MA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
BA, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Anton Lee specializes in the history and theory of photography, focusing on European and Anglo-American contexts from the early 20th century to the present. This primary scope of research has been extended to other periods and regions in the global histories of photography, including East Asia and the Pacific Northwest. His research interests include: the use of multiple pictures in sequential or serial forms; the epistemology of the photobook; photography’s relationship with text and narrative; the critical discourse of photography circa 1970s; critical theory and poststructuralism. Lee completed his doctorate in Art History in 2018 at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Prior to joining UH, he has taught at UBC, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design also in Vancouver, and McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Lee is currently working on his first book, preliminarily titled New Wave of American Photography: The Rise of Photographic Sequence in the United State and France, 1968–1989. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming in various academic journals and art magazines, including Critical Inquiry, History of Photography, and Canadian Art. Selected publications include: “Photography, Multiplicity, Promiscuity: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin”(2022), published in a backdated issue of Materiali Foucaultiani 9, nos. 17/18 (2020); “Scenes of Coexistence,” in Bouquet by Lorraine Gilbert (Montréal: VU, 2021); “The Photogenic Invention of Thought-Emotion: Duane Michals and Michel Foucault,” in Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century edited by Catherine Soussloff (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). Lee was the Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona in 2016 and the Visiting Researcher at the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2015.

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