Dr. Balaschak is Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education in Art History at Flagler College. Professor Chris Balaschak specializes in histories of photography, modern and contemporary art, and visual culture. His research is focused on visual culture at the intersection of place-based politics, environmentalism, and high modernist social planning. Dr. Balaschak’s current research project considers the ways that American photographers responded to the environmental consequences of federal infrastructure throughout the 20th century.
Can we ever really see and experience a site without comparing it to the photographs of that same scene?
Sunburn GSP #166 (Mohave/Winter Solstice Day) traces the arc of the Sun over four hours as it moved across the sky in the Mojave Desert during the Winter solstice