Lauren Cesiro

Lauren Cesiro is a Lecturer in Art History. She studies the history of photography with a focus on twentieth century American art, photography, and visual culture.  Her dissertation, The Body is a Battleground: Mapping Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann, shows how these three photographers use their projects to illustrate and perform intimacies within their communities.  Ultimately, her dissertation argues that the reception of Mapplethorpe, Goldin, and Mann's photography books in the 1980s marks a larger shift in the languages used to speak about photography and about how photography itself speaks.