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The Happiness of Others:
Social Identity and the Photographic Smile

by

Tanya Sheehan

(Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at 5:30 p.m.
110 List Art Center
64 College Street
Brown University

Tanya Sheehan is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), which explores the relationship between studio portrait photography, medical discourse, and social identity. In this lecture, Dr. Sheehan explores how and why national conceptions of social difference have framed one of portrait photography's most entrenched conventions: the smile.

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