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Sarah Parsons

Sarah Parsons

Technology in Practice, Media & Culture
DepartmentVisual Art & Art History (York)
Areas of Expertisehistorical relationship between photography, privacy, family.
https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Sarah.Parsons (external link) 

Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies

Sarah Parsons is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) at York University in Toronto. Her research and teaching focus on the history of photography, primarily in Anglo-American contexts. She is the author of William Notman: Life and Work (2014), co-author with Sarah Bassnett of Photography in Canada, 1839 - 1989 (2023), and editor of two volumes of writing on photography. She is Principal Investigator of the SSHRC funded grant, "Feeling Exposed: Photography and Privacy in Nineteenth-Century North America" (2019 - 2024) and collaborated with doctoral students on two key outcomes: with Vanessa Nicholas as co-author of an article in the journal History of Photography and with Frances Dorenbaum as co-curator of an exhibition at The Image Centre, Toronto. Parsons also serves as Lead Editor of the journal Photography and Culture.