John Tagg

Looking at forms of photographic practice that were not previously part of the History of Photography, John Tagg writes about photography not as a self-contained medium but as a complex apparatus whose social effects and effects of meaning are multiple and diverse. From here, his interests have extended to the ways in which we construct histories of cultural technologies and visual regimes and to the range of theoretical debates that, since the 1970s, have transformed the business of art history. Born in the North-East of England, Tagg now lives and works in Upstate New York, where he is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York.