Dr Luke Gartlan

Dr Luke Gartlan

Head of the School of Art History

Senior Lecturer in Art History

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2392
Email
lg321@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research and teaching concerns modern visual practices in the global nineteenth century, particularly with regard to histories and theories of photography; Japanese modern art, its institutions and intermedial practices; Orientalism and cross-cultural art; and Art of the Habsburg Empire. These interests informed my book A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography (Brill, 2016), which was awarded the Josef Kreiner Prize for International Japanese Studies. I have co-edited two volumes: with Roberta Wue, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan (Routledge, 2017); and with Ali Behdad, Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Getty, 2013). I served for six years as editor-in-chief of the international quarterly journal History of Photography, for which I also guest edited a special issue on photography in nineteenth-century Japan. 

I am currently pursuing two research projects. The first examines the visual exchanges and practices between Australia and Japan in the nineteenth century, and seeks to question the imagined disciplinary geographies that have neglected north-south cultural encounters and flows in the Pacific region. The second project concerns early photography in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø within the context of local engagements in empire and global exchange. This study investigates the associations between concepts of British provinciality and empire through close analysis of selected family photograph albums and archives.

I have guided seven PhDs and two MPhils to completion and currently supervise five PhD candidates pursuing research on topics concerned with photography and visual culture in in the nineteenth century. Along with Professor Natalie Adamson, I also coordinate the MLitt History of Photography program. I warmly invite enquiries from potential students who wish to pursue research topics related to my own interests.

PhD supervision

  • Tressia Allard
  • Aqsa Ashraf
  • Chenxiao Jin
  • Andrea Verganti
  • Louise Wawrzynkowski

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Gartlan, L., 15 Oct 2024, In: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 23, 2, p. 86-132 47 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article ? peer-review

  • Open access
    Gartlan, L., 1 Aug 2022, In: British Art Studies. 23, 42 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article ? peer-review

  • Gartlan, L., 14 Dec 2015, Leiden: Brill. 371 p. (Photography in Asia; vol. 1)

    Research output: Book/Report ? Book

  • Gartlan, L. (Editor) & Wue, R. (Editor), 27 Apr 2017, London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 252 p.

    Research output: Book/Report ? Book

  • Behdad, A. (Editor) & Gartlan, L. (Editor), 2013, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. 222 p. (Issues & Debates Series)

    Research output: Book/Report ? Book

  • Gartlan, L., 1 Apr 2023, Mondes photographiques, histoires des d¨¦buts : an early album of the world. Branly-Jacques Chirac, M. D. Q. (ed.). Arles: Actes Sud, Universite d'Avignon, p. 191-195 5 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

  • Gartlan, L., 2020, E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas. Reiss, B., Lawrence-Allen, A. & Melville, J. (eds.). Edinburgh: Birlinn, p. 57-65, 147-148 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

  • Gartlan, L., 1 May 2017, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 17-40 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed) ? peer-review

  • Gartlan, L., 2017, Shirarezaru Nihon shashin kaitakushi Öª¤é¤ì¤¶¤ëÈÕ±¾Ð´Õæé_ÍØÊ·: The Anthology. T. P. A. M. (ed.). Tokyo: Yamagawa shuppansha, p. 209-217 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

  • Gartlan, L., Aug 2013, Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation. Behdad, A. & Gartlan, L. (eds.). Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, p. 129-152 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter