Dr Luke Gartlan
Position: Lecturer
Telephone: 01334 462392
Email: lg321@st-andrews.ac.uk
Full Research Profile
On research leave 2011-12
Luke joined the School of Art History in 2007. His research concerns photography and cultural exchange in the nineteenth century, especially with reference to the camera’s role in colonial-era visual culture, histories of travel and exploration, and non-Western responses to photography. He is also engaged in research on Japanese modern visual culture and Japanese-European artistic interactions in the nineteenth century, as well as the visual cultures of the Habsburg Empire. With the support of an AHRC Early Career Fellowship, he is currently completing a monograph provisionally entitled A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and the Business of Yokohama Photography.
Luke received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He subsequently taught at the University of Sydney and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna and Nihon University, Tokyo. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 2010, during which he co-organised an international two-day conference on studio photography in Asia. With Natalie Adamson, he recently co-organised another conference on the subject of polar visual culture. Luke has also been invited to speak at numerous international research centres, including Nagasaki University, the Getty Research Institute, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. Luke is also reviews editor and advisory board member for the peer-reviewed quarterly History of Photography.
At St Andrews, he currently teaches the Honours modules ‘Histories of Photography, 1835-1905’ (AH4166) and ‘Orientalism and Visual Culture’ (AH4148). For the MLitt Programme in the History of Photography, he also offers the modules ‘Issues in Photographic Criticism’ (AH5146) and ‘Imperial Lens: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Asian Photography’ (AH5141).
Luke welcomes potential students interested in pursuing postgraduate research related to his fields of expertise to contact him directly by email or phone.
Publications
Edited works
With Ali Behdad, Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation. Issues & Debates Series. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, forthcoming 2012 (under contract).
Special issues
Guest editor ‘Photography in East Asia: new archives, new histories’, editorial and contributor, PhotoResearcher 15 (April 2011), 80 pp.
Guest editor ‘Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japan’, editorial and contributor, History of Photography 33, no. 2 (May 2009), 125pp.
Books chapters and articles
‘Dandies on the Pyramids: Photography, Tourism, and German-Speaking Artists in Cairo.’ In Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation, ed. Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan. Issues & Debates Series. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, forthcoming 2012.
‘“Bronzed and Muscular Bodies”: Jinrikishas, Tattooed Coolies, and Yokohama Tourist Photography.’ In Transculturation in British Art, 1770-1930, ed. Julie F. Codell, Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2012.
‘“A Complete Craze”: Isabella Bird Bishop in East Asia.’ PhotoResearcher 15 (April 2011), 13-26.
‘Japan Day by Day? William Henry Metcalf, Edward Sylvester Morse, and Early Tourist Photography in Japan.’ Early Popular Visual Culture 8, no. 2 (May 2010), 125-146.
‘Samuel Cocking and the Rise of Japanese Photography.’ History of Photography 33, no. 2 (May 2009), 145-164.
‘Photography and the Imperial Austrian Expedition in Nagasaki (1869-70).’ Koshashin kenkyū (Nagasaki University), no. 3 (May 2009), 72-77.
‘L'Orientalisme et l'Empire français: le Cas de l'Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade d'Henri Regnault.’ In Images et études culturelles, ed. and trans. Bernard Darras, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008, 25-36.
‘Wilhelm Willmann: An Austrian Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan, 1866-1874.’ The 30 Year Jubilee of the European Society for the History of Photography, ed. Anna Auer and Uwe Schögl, Salzburg: Fotohof Salzburg, 2008, 90-99.
‘“A native photographer of rare ability, skill and enthusiasm”: Uchida Kuichi and his Foreign Clientele.’ Yoake mae shirarezaru Nihon shashin kaitakushi. I. Kantō hen kenkyū hōkoku [Dawn of Japanese Photography 1. Kantō Region], Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2007, 14-26.
‘Types or Costumes? Reframing Early Yokohama Photography.’ Visual Resources—An International Journal of Documentation 22, no. 3 (September 2006), 239-263.
‘Views and Costumes of Japan: A Photograph Album by Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz.’ The La Trobe Journal, no. 76 (Spring 2005), 5-26.
‘James Robertson and Felice Beato in the Crimea: Recent Findings.’ History of Photography 29, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 72-80.
'Changing Views: The Early Topographical Photographs of Stillfried & Company.' Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2004, 40-65.
‘In Search of Arcadia: Souvenir Photography in Yokohama, 1859-1900.’ Shashin: Nineteenth Century Japanese Studio Photographs, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2004, 12-17.
‘A Chronology of Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz (1839-1911).’ In John Clark, Japanese Exchanges in Art, 1850s to 1930s, with Britain, continental Europe, and the USA (Sydney: Power Publications, 2001), 121-188.
Recent Activities
Co-convened with Natalie Adamson, Polar Visual Culture: An International Conference, Arts Building Lecture Theatre, University of St Andrews, June 17-18, 2011.
Co-convened with Gael Newton, Facing Asia: Histories and Legacies of Asian Studio Photography, National Gallery of Australia and Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, August 21-22, 2010.
Invited consultant for a three-day workshop Early Japanese Photography, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, December 9-11, 2009.
Organised a seminar Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japan, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, June 30, 2009.
Conference papers
‘The Reverent and the Everyday: Presenting Imperial Photographic Portraits in Meiji Japan.’
Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits across Asia
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, December 5-6, 2011.
‘Revisiting Arctic Regions.’
Polar Visual Culture: An International Conference
Arts Building Lecture Theatre, University of St Andrews, June 17-18, 2011.
‘“A Complete Craze”: Isabella Bird Bishop's Photographic Travels in China.’
China Through the Lenses of Western Photographers
Burrell Collection, Glasgow, May 7, 2011.
‘“A Huge Blunder from Beginning to End”: Colonial Archives and a Hong Kong Commission.’
Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History III
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, March 25-26, 2011.
‘Shanghai shashin? The China Portfolio of Baron Raimund von Stillfried.’
History of Photography Annual Lecture
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, November 24, 2010.
‘A Photograph of the Venerable Shadow: Censorship and the Imperial Photographic Portrait.’
Power Institute Public Lecture Series
Power Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, August 31, 2010.
‘The Jinrikisha through the Lens: Tourism and Modernity in Meiji Japan.’
Work-in-Progress Seminar
Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, August 27, 2010.
‘Beyond Master and Apprentice: Usui Shūsaburō and the Challenge of Japanese Photography.’
Facing Asia: Histories and Legacies of Asian Studio Photography
Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, August 21-22, 2010.
‘Dandies on the Pyramids: Photography, Tourism and German-Speaking Artists in Egypt.’ Zoom Out: The Making and Unmaking of the “Orient” through Photography, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2010.
‘Bringers of the Light: Photography and Religious Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Japan.’ Art and Religion in Japan, The Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, November 20, 2009.
Keynote Speaker, ‘Portraying China’s “Character”: Baron von Stillfried’s Portfolio of Shanghai Photographs.’ East & West: Cross Cultural Encounters, School of Art History, University of St Andrews, September 11-12, 2009.
‘Bronzed and Muscular Bodies: Jinrikishas, Tattooed Coolies, and Yokohama Tourist Photography.’ College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, February 20-23, 2008.
‘Off Camera: Samuel Cocking and the Rise of Meiji Photography.’ International Conference on Old Japanese Photographs, Nagasaki University, Japan, November 16-17, 2007.
Awards and honours
AHRC Early Career Fellowship (September 2011-June 2012)
Research Grant, Carnegie Foundation for the Universities of Scotland (2011)
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University (June-September 2010)
Grant-in-Aid, Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library (July-August 2009)
Research Grant, Carnegie Foundation for the Universities of Scotland (2008)
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, Nihon University, Tokyo (2005-2007)
Österreich Stipendium, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Vienna (2004-2005)
Humanities Fieldwork Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004-2005)
Positions of responsibility
History of Photography, Reviews Editor and Advisory Board Member
External Examiner, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 2011.
Selected Books
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Guest Editor of Special Issue 'Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japan,' History of Photography (May 2009), 125pp. |
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Contributed essay to Shashin: Nineteenth Century Japanese Studio Photography (National Gallery of Victoria, 2004) |