Darcy White MA
Principal Lecturer in Film and Photography
- Department of Media Arts and Communication
- Art Design and Media Research Centre
- Culture and Creativity Research Institute
Summary
I specialise in teaching the history and theory of photography and heads up the postgraduate courses in the Department of Media Arts and Communication
About
My research interests have lead to publications and conferences in areas such as widening the art and design curriculum to include 'non-western' visual culture, the relationship between design and consumption focussing on the mobile phone, public art and regional identity. This last paper considers some of the conclusions drawn from a long period of research on the public sculptures of Sheffield and South Yorkshire. It relates to work done in collaboration with Elizabeth Norman and David Ball for a book, edited by Darcy White: The Public Sculpture of Sheffield and south Yorkshire'.
In 2008 I was a panellist for the Marsh Award for Public Sculpture and Monuments.
My current research interests centre on the role of the aesthetic in contemporary photography
Teaching
Department of Media Arts and Communication
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
History and Theory of Photography
Publications
Key Publications
White, D. (2020). Rethinking Space in the landscapes of Nordic cuisine. In White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.) Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography. Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice. (pp. 197-220). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449509-012
White, D. (2020). Rethinking Space in the landscapes of Nordic cuisine. In White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.) Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography. Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice. (pp. 197-220). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449509-012
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2020). Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice. Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2020). Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice. Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2020). Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice. Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner.
White, D. (2018). Wanderings Through the Fog: Axel Hütte and the German landscape tradition reimagined. In White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.) Northern Light. Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North. (pp. 49-75). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag: http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439753-004
White, D. (2018). Wanderings Through the Fog: Axel Hütte and the German landscape tradition reimagined. In White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.) Northern Light. Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North. (pp. 49-75). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag: http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439753-004
White, D., Norman, E., & Goldie, C.T. (2015). Public Sculpture of Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
White, D., Norman, E., & Goldie, C.T. (2015). Public Sculpture of Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (n.d.). Northern Light: Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North. Germany: Transcript Verlag. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3975-9/northern-light
White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (n.d.). Northern Light: Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North. Germany: Transcript Verlag. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3975-9/northern-light
White, D., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (n.d.). Northern Light: Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North. Germany: Transcript Verlag. http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3975-9/northern-light
Journal articles
White, D. (2019). The undocumented everyday: migrant lives and the politics of visibility. Visual Studies, 34 (4), 408-410. http://doi.org/10.1080/1472586x.2019.1655269
Cooper, R., & White, D. (2005). Teaching transculturation:: Pedagogical Processes. Journal of Design History, 18 (3), 285-292. http://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epi048
Conference papers
White, D. (2006). Public art and regional identity. Sheffield; Steel city? A changing picture. In Regionalism and Identity in British Art: History, Environment & Contemporary Practice, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 28 October 2006. http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/regionhistory/rhcnew/papers.htm
Book chapters
White, D. (2023). On getting "in the way of the world": The work of Helene Schmitz and the urgency of decolonising the Western gaze. In Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis. (pp. 309-333).
White, D. (2023). On getting "in the way of the world": The work of Helene Schmitz and the urgency of decolonising the Western gaze. In Disturbed Ecologies: Photography, Geopolitics, and the Northern Landscape in the Era of Environmental Crisis. (pp. 309-333).
White, D. (2022). Keeping the Peace: the Visual in the ‘struggle’ of Nonviolent Activism in a Global Existential Crisis. In White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.) Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (in press: Bloomsbury Academic, July 2022). (First). London: Bloomsbury Academic
White, D. (2022). Keeping the Peace: the Visual in the ‘struggle’ of Nonviolent Activism in a Global Existential Crisis. In White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.) Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (in press: Bloomsbury Academic, July 2022). (First). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Hartle, S., & White, D. (2022). Introduction to the Anthology. In Visual Activism in the 21st Century Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. Bloomsbury Publishing
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2017). Northern light: Landscape photography and the north. In Robinson, A. (Ed.) Northern Light: Landscape Photography and the North. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University
Books
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2024). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. (2nd; Paperback edition). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2024). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. (2nd; Paperback edition). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
White, D., Peck, J., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (2023). Disturbed Ecologies. transcript Verlag. http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460269
White, D., Peck, J., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (2023). Disturbed Ecologies. transcript Verlag. http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460269
White, D., Peck, J., & Goldie, C. (Eds.). (2023). Disturbed Ecologies. transcript Verlag. http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460269
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
White, D., & Hartle, S. (Eds.). (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World (Bloomsbury Academic, Pub. 25 Aug 2022). (First). LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-9781350265073/
Hartle, S., & White, D. (2022). Visual Activism in the 21st Century Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Exhibitions
Hartle, S., Robinson, S., White, D., & Harrison, T. (2018). Exhibition: Yorkshire Artspace – Proximity and Distance. [Exhibition: Landscape Photography]. Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
Hartle, S., Robinson, S., White, D., & Harrison, T. (2018). Exhibition: Yorkshire Artspace – Proximity and Distance. [Exhibition: Landscape Photography]. Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK.
Lazenby, M. (2016). Northern Light Contemporary Landscape Photography exhibition. [Exhibition]. SIA Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.northernlight.photos/
Presentations
Hartle, S., & White, D. (2022). Introduction to conference. Presented at: - VISUAL ACTIVISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ART, PROTEST AND RESISTANCE IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD, Sheffield Hallam University
White, D. (2018). Selling the North: lifestyle and landscape - new trends in marketing and product promotion. Presented at: Northern Light: Proximity and Distance in Contemporary Landscape Photography, Sheffield Hallam University, 2018
White, D. (2016). Wanderings through the fog: the German Landscape Tradition reimagined. Presented at: Northern Light: Landscape Photography and Evocations of the North, Sheffield Hallam University, 2016
White, D. (2010). Use of photography as an aid to research - Public Sculpture of Sheffield. Presented at: Symposium, University of Sheffield
White, D. (2005). The everyday use of consumption in constructions of self-identity: the mobile phone - a case study. Presented at: Designing and Consuming: Exploring ideas of objects, practices and processes, a workshop, Durham University
Cooper, R., & White, D. (2003). Teaching Transculturation. Presented at: Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History, London
Other publications
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2018). International Conference – Northern Light: critical approaches to proximity and distance in northern landscape photography.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2018). International Conference – Northern Light: critical approaches to proximity and distance in northern landscape photography.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2016). International Conference: Northern Light – Landscape Photography and Evocations of the North.
White, D., & Goldie, C. (2016). International Conference: Northern Light – Landscape Photography and Evocations of the North.