The Developing Room is a working group devoted to the study and practice of photography. Founded in 2008, the Developing Room is based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our mission is to promote innovative work in the field of photography studies by organizing public projects and fostering international collaboration.
The Developing Room, a photography working group at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, announces its eighth graduate colloquium in collaboration with the positions: asia critique journal and New York University.
A workshop that explores how photographs have also been used to unbind nationals, to undo citizenship, make non-citizens or even construct no-man's lands. It will tackle four very different historical moments and geographies.
The Developing Room holds its seventh graduate student colloquium. The event is for Ph.D. students from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography—its histories and theories—plays a central role. This year we particularly encourage contributions on the subject of photography and resistance writ large.
Paoletti’s talk focuses on the earliest photographic records produced between the 1810s and the 1860s in the city of Saint Louis by the African -American Augustus Washington and commissioned by an emancipated class of Senegalese women.
The Developing Room holds its sixth graduate student colloquium, an event for Ph.D. candidates from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography--its histories and theories--play a central role.
This roundtable, called in celebration of the launch of the new book, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2022), focuses on the transformational role of photography in four careful case studies from the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire.
The Developing Room holds its fifth semi-annual graduate student colloquium, an event for Ph.D. candidates from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography--its histories and theories--play a central role.
Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School, will be our guest at the CCA seminar “What is Photography?” which runs through the academic year 2020-2021.
Organized by CCA postdoctoral fellows Michelle Smiley and Alexander Bigman, this virtual conference invites an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists to inquire into the opposed histories and potential imbrications of photography’s evidentiary and disclosive modes, drawing out the politics of visibility and concealment that these concepts address.
The Developing Room holds its fourth annual graduate student colloquium, an event for Ph.D. candidates from any field of study who are working on dissertation topics in which photography--its histories and theories--play a central role.
Laura Wexler is Professor of American Studies, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Co-Chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum at Yale University.
