Ian Walker 

• Name : Dr Ian Walker

• Job Title : Reader in the History of Photography

• Email : ian.walker@newport.ac.uk

• Contact Telephone Number : 01633 432221

• Campus : Caerleon

  Academic Faculty and School or Department : School of Film, Photography and Digital Media

• Research Centre or Group : European Centre for Photographic Research

• Biography : Born in Birmingham in 1952, Ian Walker studied Art History at Manchester and the Courtauld Institute, London. An interest in photography was sparked by coming to work at Newport and he has subsequently developed courses here in the history of photography. He has also written extensively about the medium, including two books on the relationship between Surrealism and photography. His own photographic work has also been published and exhibited in Britain and Europe.  

• Academic and Professional Qualifications :
  • 1995: D.Phil - University of Sussex.
  • 1974: MA, Courtauld Institute, University of London.
  • 1973: Ba (Hons), Manchester University. 
    
    
• Professional Bodies and Memberships :
  • 2001-present: Member of Institute of Learning and Teaching (now the Higher Education Academy). 
  • 1997-present: Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) 
    
    
• Research Expertise or Interest : History of Photography
  
  
• Grants Awarded : AHRC Research Leave award to fund a Sabbatical year 2005-6
  
  
• Research Supervision : Five PhD students supervised to completion, subjects being 19thC photography in Australia, the photography of Raymond Moore, photography in the Welsh Valleys, the Falklands War and Photography of the home.
  Presently Supervisor for three MPhil / PhD students
  
  
• Research Degree Examiner Appointments :
  • External Examiner for PhD candidates at Liverpool Hope University, the University of Sussex and the University of Derby
  • Member of PhD jury, University of Ghent, Belgium.
  • At undergraduate level, External Examiner, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, 2003-6.
    
    
• Publications :
  • 2011: Five essays in Christoph Grunenberg and Darren Pih ed, Magritte A to Z, Tate, Liverpool.
  • 2010: “Dick Jewell’s “Found Photos”, Image (&) Narrative, 11:4, special issue on  ‘Photography and Artists’ book’, ed. by Alexander Streitberger, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium (http://www.imageandnarrative.be).
  • 2010: “Mannequins and Abattoirs” (review of La Subversion des Images), Source, 63.
  • 2009: ‘”As If One’s Eyelids Had Been Cut Away”: Frederick Sommer’s Arizona Landscapes’, Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, 2:2 (Winter 2009) (http://jsa.asu.edu)
  • 2009: “Out of Phantom Africa: Michel Leiris, Man Ray and the Dogon” in Wendy Grossmann ed., Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens, International Art and Artists, Washington DC.
  • 2009: 'Frieze', portfolio of eight pictures with text, Source, 59 (Summer).
  • 2009: “Seaside surrealism: a visit to Swanage” in Liz Wells and Simon Standing eds. Relic, University of Plymouth Press.
  • 2008: “Being the Same Person: the Brown Sisters”, Source, 55.
  • 2008, "Blossfeldt and Surrealism" PhotoResearcher (Vienna), 11.
  • 2007: So Exotic, So Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography, Manchester University Press, 208pp.
  • 2007: 'Fragments Against Ruin' in Kai-Olaf Hesse, Topography of the Titanic, Belfast Exposed, Belfast
  • 2006: 'Jacques-Andre Boiffard' in Dawn Ades and Simon Baker eds, Undercover Surrealism, Hayward Gallery, London / MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.