Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

About Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is Associate Professor the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has a Fil.Lic. in art history from Lunds University in Sweden, where she focused on contemporary art and social consciousness, specifically in the work of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon. She also holds an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Ph.D in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota.

opie grid — Opie has been using photography as a means of self-expression—and making friends through taking their portraits—since age nine.

Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting

by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Annie Leibovitz, HM Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926) Wearing Garter Robes, Buckingham Palace, March 28, 2007, 2007. C-print. 31.6 x 48 cm. (Royal Collection Trust) — This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.

Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth II

by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January ...

by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Arndt’s choice to pose among so many textures, clothes, and props suggests she was aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.

Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.

Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Who was this dancer, and why was her body not shown?

Lotte Jacobi, Head of a Dancer
by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Horst's Mainbocher Corset photograph journeyed across oceans and time to 50 later transform Vogue into a concept and a verb.

Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris
by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson