Dana MacFarlane

Dana MacFarlane is an art historian who is currently an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art. She studied at the University of Toronto and completed her PhD at the University of Essex. She was a Commonwealth Scholar and a Lisette Model/Joseh G. Blum fellow in the History of Photography at the National Gallery of Canada. She works on early photography, the forms of subjectivity it produced, and the photographic reproduction of works of art, as well as the role of photography in Surrealism. Her numerous publications in the journal History of Photography and in edited volumes situate photography in historical, literary and philosophical contexts. Dana's photographic projects are embedded in these earlier traditions which above all valued the transitory and role of chance in photographic representation. She remains intrigued by the powerful psychological presence of found objects in photographs.