Erin Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor

Maine College of Art

US

Biography

Erin Hyde Nolan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Maine College of Art. Situated at the intersection of Islamic art and photographic history, her research seeks to understand networks of cosmopolitan photographic exchange across the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds in the modern era. Her scholarship has been supported by the Historians of Islamic Art, the Kunsthistorisches-Institut, Florenz, and Getty Research Institute, among others.

Articles (2)

enErin Nolan, Aimée Bessire

Reimagining Todd Webb’s Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa

This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across oceans and continents, creating cross-cultural collaborations, resulting in their recent reinterpretation by authors from the African continent and their installation at the National Museum of Tanzania.

enErin Nolan, Emily Voelker

Reading Across American and Ottoman Archives: Diplomacy and Photography in the Nineteenth Century

Album exchanges between American and Ottoman powers (c.1880-1910) reveal a networked history of photography across the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds. Shared themes across diplomatic survey practices suggest that these photographs were legible across oceans and national boundaries.