IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau
Mark Pohlad *ABE*
DePaul University
Department of Art and Art History
1150 W Fullerton Ave, Third Floor
Chicago, IL 60614-2204
P: 773.325.2569
Mark Pohlad *ABE*
Mark Pohlad is an Associate Professor of Art History at DePaul University, and specializes in American art and the history of photography. He holds a PhD from the University of Delaware and has published on architectural photographs, the use of photography in literature, and on American prints. His interests include jazz, literature, and architecture.The Camera and Abraham Lincoln
This presentation describes the photographs of Abraham Lincoln as they appear in the history of photography. Lincoln was the first extensively photographed President, and the first for whom the media helped sway an election. The sixteenth President once described his most frequent photographer, Mathew Brady (1823-96), as "the man who put me in the White House." Through vivid, large-scale projected images, art historian Mark Pohlad - a specialist in photohistory - will trace the images of Lincoln and his circle while describing the nature and challenges of photography in the mid-nineteenth century.Return to the archive listing for IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau
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