Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande
Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande is a Ph.D. student in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Art History at Concordia University and a Jarislowsky Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Canadian Art History. He also holds a Concordia University Graduate Fellowship and a FQRSC doctoral scholarship. His research analyses the uses of photography in governmental propaganda in Québec before the Quiet Revolution. He graduated with a BA in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2009. In 2012, he received his Master's degree from the same institution with a thesis entitled 'Les mécanismes de la transformation du réel dans la propagande photographique nazie: le congrès du NSDAP à Nuremberg en 1933'. His scholarly speeches and articles concern the articulation of images, urban space and theory of photography.
Thesis Title: Moderniser par l'image: la propagande photographique gouvernementale au Québec (1900-1960)
Supervisor: Dr. Martha Langford
Research Interests:
- History of Photography
- Philosophy of Technology
- Modernity in Quebec
- Media Culture
- Propaganda
- Portrait
Teaching – Undergraduate Courses:
- ARTH 267 Aspects of the History of Photography
- ARTH 398 Special Topics in Art and Society: A Visual History of Persuasion: Power, Propaganda and the State