Sample Lectures and Papers

• 'I Am the Ghost in the Image: the photograph as mirror, window, veil'
• 'Through a (Large) Glass Darkly: the secret shared visual code of Talbot and Duchamp'
• 'Niépce's Nigredo and Kristeva's Black Sun: photography's foundation in alchemy'
• 'Seeing the Unseeable Sun: the liminal moment of terror in photography and the Nebra Sky Disk’
• 'Big Foot Loose: masculinity and the dismembered past in sculptural ruins’
• 'A Portrait of the Superstar in Quiet Contemplation: leaked visual cues to the inner life of Andy Warhol’
• 'Death and Its Double: Warhol, Elvis, Beuys and the impossible Other’
• 'Death in a Box: the coffin space of photography and the sleep of reason'