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Professor Kelley Wilder is a photographic historian, with interests in the cultures of science and knowledge generated by photography and photographic practice.  In her work Kelley  considers the photographic practices of nineteenth century scientists and artists like William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, Henri Becquerel and others. New projects include work on Photographic catalogues and archives, and nineteenth and twentieth century material cultures of photographic industry.

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material cultures of photography

photography and science

archives, catalogues and photograpy

photography, industry and technology

• Photographic history
• Photography and industry
• Photographic research practices
• Material histories of photography
• Science and Photography
• History of Technology

D.Phil., Oxford University 2003

Photographic History MA

 

 

Advisory Board, Studies in Theory and History of Photography, University of Zurich

 

 European Society of the History of Photography 

 History of Science Society

 European Society for the History of Science

 

2020-2023      Mercator Fellow, University of Regensburg, Germany. DFG project, "Astronomie-Glasarchiv: Fotografische Praktiken in der Sternwarte, 1850-1950" (The ), PI Professor Omar Nasim, Regensburg.

2019-2024      Research Fellow of the Science Museum, London

2019-2020      Marie Curie EU Training Grant (€84,497) ‘Photomechanical Reproduction in Europe’ with Dr. Petra Trnkova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

2017-2018      M3C Creative Economy Engagement Postdoctoral funding (£29,741) for ‘Pictures in Natural Collections’, with Damian Hughes and the Natural History Museum, London

2016-2017      HEIF Network fund 'The Meaning of Photographic Materials' (£3000)

2016-2017       British Academy Research Grant for project 'Doing Science in a Photographic Age' (£6,635)

 

• Ella Ravilious AHRC CDA with V&A 'Photographic Collecting Practices of the National Art Library' CDA with Victoria and Albert Museum
• Martin Jürgens M4C 
• Corey Keller
• Carolin Lange M4C

2020-2023      Mercator Fellow, University of Regensburg, Germany. DFG project, "Astronomie-Glasarchiv: Fotografische Praktiken in der Sternwarte, 1850-1950" (The Astronomical Glass Archive: Photographic practices of the Observatory 1850-1950), PI Professor Omar Nasim, Regensburg.

2019-2020      Marie Curie EU Training Grant (€84,497) ‘Photomechanical Reproduction in Europe’ with Petra Trnkova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

2017-2018      M3C Creative Economy Engagement Postdoctoral funding (£29,741) for ‘Pictures in Natural Collections’, with Damian Hughes and the Natural History Museum, London

2016-2017       British Academy Research Grant for project 'Doing Science in a Photographic Age' (£6,635)

2016-2017      HEIF Network fund 'The Meaning of Photographic Materials' (£3000)