Interview with Margaret Denny
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Margaret Denny is a teacher and art curator. Raised in Ottawa, Illinois, she worked as a buyer for Marshall Fields before pursuing an undergraduate degree and master’s degree in art history from University of Illinois Chicago. She earned a Ph.D. in art history from UIC in 2010, completing her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers 1850-1900. She has spent a large part of her career researching and documenting early female photographers, with a research concentration on women in commercial photography in America and Great Britain. Margaret Denny has been a photography adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago since 2002 and has taught courses in art history and the history of photography at other Chicago colleges and universities and lectures locally and nationally about women photographers. Length: 83:04. Transcript: 17 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, art, teaching, creativity, community, Illinois, Chicago
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Groff, Jeremiah, "Interview with Margaret Denny" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 3.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/3
Comments
The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.