Lauren Cesiro

Lauren Cesiro holds a B.A in Studio Art from Fairfield University, an M.A in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University, and a PhD in Art History from Binghamton University.  She studies the history of photography with a focus on twentieth century American art, photography, and visual culture.  Her dissertation, The Body is a Battleground: Mapping Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann, wants to show how these three photographers use their projects to illustrate and perform intimacies within their communities.  Ultimately, her dissertation argues that the reception of Mapplethorpe, Goldin, and Mann's photography books in the 1980s marks a larger shift in the languages used to speak about photography and about how photography itself speaks.