Elizabeth Anne McCauley
author
Elizabeth "Anne" McCauley is a prominent art historian and professor of art and archaeology. She served as the David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University. Her scholarship focuses on the history of photography as a modern medium, exploring its social contexts, commercial applications, and relationship to other media like painting and printmaking. She has conducted extensive archival research in France and the United States, producing groundbreaking works on early professional photography in Paris during the Second Empire, fashion photography, and the American Pictorialist movement. Her work is noted for combining deep archival investigation with broad conceptual analysis of materiality, circulation, and visual culture.[1]
- History of Photography
- Commercial Photography
- Visual Culture
- Materiality
- Modern Art
Books
Works by Elizabeth Anne McCauley
- 1994 Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871
- 1985 A.A.E. Disdéri and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph
- 2012 The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz Co-authored with photographer Jason Francisco.
- Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925 Exhibition catalog.
Exhibitions
- Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
References
- Princeton University. 2026 link