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Frances Guerin is a scholar, critic and writer. She holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University. Her diverse professional activities come together under the umbrella of teaching. Whether in the classroom teaching film and visual culture, on a stage speaking about the importance of art in our everyday lives, or writing, Frances is motivated by the desire to introduce her audience to the wondrous worlds of film, art and visual culture.

Frances’ writing addresses the relationship between images and the historical world, and particularly, how experimental still and moving images represent, critique and challenge social and cultural convention. Her books include A Culture of Light: Cinema in 1920s Germany (University of Minnesota Press, 2005); The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (Columbia University Press, 2007); Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Minnesota Press, 2011); On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (2015); and The Truth is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Her latest on contemporary American painter Jacqueline Humphries will be published in early 2022 by Lund Humphries.

Her creative writing brings together her lifelong love of still and moving images and her ongoing commitment to the issues that concern women in the 21st century. You can read more about Frances on her website: www.francesguerin.com. You can see her recommendations of current exhibitions in Paris by reading her blog: http://fxreflects.blogspot.com.    

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