Kelley Wilder: Photography and the Archive

Curriculum Vitae:

May 1993: Kenyon College, BA cum laude in Studio Art and English Literature. 1995: George Eastman House, Photographic Preservation and Archives Practice, Certification. Summer 1996: University of Rochester, New York, Masters courses: Vision and Photography (theory); From Michelangelo to Modernity (survey art history). December 2003: University of Oxford, Dr. Phil. (PhD), title of the Doctoral Thesis: "Ingenuity, Wonder and Profit: Language and the Invention of Photography". 2000 - 2003: Assistant Editor, The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk). 31 March - 31 September, 2004: Research Fellow, Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839 - 1865, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. (www.peib.org.uk). 1 September 2005 - 30 August 2008: Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Project: The Nature of Photographic Evidence, as a part of The History of Scientific Observation, Department II, director Lorraine Daston.