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Not long after its emergence in the early 19th century, photography gained prominence both as visual art form and as a means of journalistic documentation — with the two seemingly disparate genres often overlapping. Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, and Geoff Dyer, writer in residence, delve into photography’s role as a window on life and an evolving method of defining reality.

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Kate Flint of art history and English is researching flash photography’s past — through Weegee, Jacob Riis and lesser known figures — to shed light on how it revolutionized the way we view and record our visual world.

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Megan Luke of USC Dornsife’s art history department receives the Robert Motherwell Book Prize for her book on Kurt Schwitters, a key figure in Dadaism.

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As chair of the art history department, USC Dornsife Provost Professor Kate Flint is re-energizing the graduate student program. Flint “transcends traditional boundaries,” Ph.D. student Christopher McGeorge says.

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USC Dornsife 2020's newest research clusters probe immigration issues, visual studies and changes in neural systems as one ages.

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