Dr Barnaby Haran

Dr Barnaby Haran

Senior Lecturer in American Arts

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Qualifications

  • BA (University College London)
  • MA (University College London)
  • PhD / DPhil (University College London)
  • PCAP (University of Hull)

Summary

Barnaby teaches and researches American visual culture with a specialism in the history of photography. Barnaby has written widely on American documentary photography of the early 1930s, including articles on Paul Strand, Margaret Bourke-White, and the Workers Film and Photo League.

His current research explores the intersection of radical politics and campaigns against racial injustice in relation to press photography and political propaganda. He is developing a monograph (under contract with Routledge for its History of Photography series) on the uses of photography in the media coverage of the Scottsboro Case.

He is Co-Director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America

Haran, B. (2024). The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America. Oxford Art Journal, 47(2), 223-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcae013

Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine

Haran, B. (2023). Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2221919

The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White's Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression

Haran, B. (in press). The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression. Arts, 11(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11020045

Documenting an 'Age-Long Struggle': Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest

Haran, B. (2020). Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest. Art History, 43(1), 120-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12472

'We Cover New York': protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League

Haran, B. (2019). ‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League. Arts, 8(2), 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020061

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Representing the Scottsboro Boys: Labor Defender and the Racial Politics of Radical Photography

Funder

British Academy

Grant

£4,370.00

Started

10 June 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Haran welcomes applications in

- American art and visual culture

- histories of photography

- avant-garde and documentary film

- radical culture

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2020 - 2020

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