About the Authors

SARAH BASSNETT
Sarah Bassnett is a Professor of art history at Western University, where she specializes in the history of photography and photo-based contemporary art. Her research focuses on the intersections of photography and social change, especially as it relates to issues of power and resistance. Her award-winning book, Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), examines photography’s role in the liberal reform of early twentieth-century Toronto. Her research has been published in numerous academic journals including History of Photography, Photography & Culture, photographies, and Panorama. Her current SSHRC-funded project investigates how stories of forced migration are told through photography.

SARAH PARSONS
Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor of art history at York University in Toronto. She is the author of William Notman: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014) and editor of a book of essays by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography After Photography: Gender, Genre, History (Duke University Press, 2017). She has written a series of essays on the transnational circulation of Canadian photographs, which have appeared in the journals British Art Studies (2020) and American Art (2023) as well as in the edited volume Cold War Camera (Duke University Press, 2022). Her current SSHRC-funded research project, Feeling Exposed: Photography, Privacy, and Visibility in Nineteenth-Century North America will culminate in a book and a co-curated exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. She is also an editor of the journal Photography & Culture.