Catherine De Lorenzo is an art historian and senior lecturer in the Architecture Program of the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney. Having majored in Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, she later returned to her alma mater to complete doctoral research into photographic representations of Aboriginal Australians. This research enabled her to co-examine both art historical and visual anthropological modes of analysing and understanding the visual image. Both her doctoral thesis and much of her subsequent research�" whether in photographic history or public art and architecture �"has been cross disciplinary, as evidenced by the wide range of disciplinary journals in which her articles have been published. Within photographic history, her interests include the representation of people and place, the politics of picturing and the use of the photograph in cross cultural exchange. Since 2001 she has worked with Dr van der Plaat (now U. Queensland) on an extensive study of cross cultural photographic exchange between Australia and France, a study that begins in the late 1870s and continues to recent projects such as the integration of Michael Riley’s cloud images into the architecture of Jean Nouvel’s Musée du quai Branly, Paris (2006). Her public art research is often framed by cultural and environmental questions. Much of what drives her research into both photography and public art and architecture is to examine the extent to which modalities of representation and expression are responsive to cross cultural exchange. She currently serves as a Contributing Editor to History of Photography, an Associate Editor of Visual Studies, and on the Editorial Board of DAAO (Dictionary of Australian Artists Online). She currently serves on the FBE Research Committee, is an active participant in the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, and has served on the juries of various public art awards and competitions.
Australian photographic history within a global context: critique selected national and international collections of photographs of the Australian Cultural Landscape through filters of identity, place and cultural exchange, and in so doing to extend thinking on the agency of photographs across place, time and disciplines.
Contemporary public art: examine recent projects against concepts of place and environmental sustainability.
Visual historiography: critique the history and theory of visual representations within art history and visually cognate disciplines
Interdisciplinary art and design: explore boundaries between the disciplines of art history/theory and design (including architecture, interior architecture, industrial design and landscape architecture).
Coad, F. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Graham Chalcroft’, DAAO, http:
De Lorenzo, C. “Reconstructing Redfern.” Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence - Proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art/ Comité International d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), Melbourne
De Lorenzo, C. "Reconstructing Redfern." In Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence - Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art, edited by Jaynie Anderson, 713-17. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
De Lorenzo, C. and D. van der Plaat, ‘cloud in Musée du quai Branly: photography in architecture’, Back to the City. Strategies for Informal Urban Design: Collaboration between Artists and Architects, ed. Steffen Lehmann, Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz , 2009, pp. 84-93
Aldred-Traynor, M. and C. De Lorenzo, ‘Susan O’Doherty’,DAAO, http:
Chan, K. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Robyn Backen’, DAAO, http:
Ferrara, S. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Steffen Lehmann’, DAAO, http:
Gough, T., & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Marily Cintra’’, DAAO, http:
Ho, B W-Y, & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Richard Goodwin’, DAAO, http:
Hoejbo, A. G. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Peter Day’, DAAO, http:
Hosking, T. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Cynthia Turner’, DAAO, http:
Lin, J & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Adrian Mcgregor’, DAAO, http:
Lee, S. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Katrina Simon’, DAAO, http:
Xu, C. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Nick Hollo’, DAAO, http:
Yip, J. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘John Skennar’, DAAO, http:
Tran, C. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Tom Loveday’, DAAO, http:
Meyer, J. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Julius Bokor’, DAAO, http:
Sparkes, J. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Lucas Ihlein’, DAAO, http:
Tse, B. W.N. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Dale Jones Evans’, DAAO, http:
Champion, S. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Allan Giddy’, ,DAAO http:
Cooper, K. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Victor Cusack’, DAAO, http:
Chow, Y.L. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘José Garcia Negrette’, DAAO, http:
Nagle, H. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Swetik Korzeniewski’, DAAO, http:
Hall, C. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Peter Tonkin’, DAAO, http:
Malouf, C. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Paul Fairweather’, DAAO, http:
Livingstone, E. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Peter Poulet’, DAAO http:
Hoo, J. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘Tina Tran’, DAAO, http:
Yuen, H. & C. De Lorenzo, ‘William Royal’, DAAO, http:
De Lorenzo, CM. 'Gaston Tissandier'. In: , eds. Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth Centry Photography. 1st. New Your, London: Routledge, 2007.
De Lorenzo, C. 'Gaston Tissandier', Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, v. 2, New York and London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 1393-4
De Lorenzo, C., 'The Photographic Identities of Australia'[Review of Davies' An Eye for Photography: The Camera in Australia, (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of New South Wales, 2004) and Ennis' Intersections: Photography, History and the National Library of Australia, (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2004)], History of Photography, 30:3 Autumn 2006, pp.270-272.
De Lorenzo, CM. & Van Der Plaat, DA., 2006, 'Southern geographies and the domestication of science in the photography of JW Lindt', in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 6 (2), pp. 143 - 166.
De Lorenzo, CM., 2006, 'Eye contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians', in Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, vol XXII (3), pp. 290 - 297.
De Lorenzo, CM. & van der Platt, D., 2006, 'Sublime Amenity at Lindt's Hermitage', in Studies in Australian Garden History, vol 2, pp. 39 - 62.
De Lorenzo, CM. & van der Platt, D., 2006, 'Art Consuming Architecture? Photography in Branly', in Proceedings: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: XXII annual Conference 2006, eds McMinn, Stephens, Basson, Perth, Perth, pp. 89 - 95
De Lorenzo, CM., 2005, 'Photography Redfern Proof: exhibition as medium', in Visual Anthrophology Review, vol 21 No. 1&2(1st), pp. 138 - 162.
De Lorenzo, CM., 2005, 'Confronting amnesia: Aboriginality and public space', in Visual Studies, vol 20 no 2(1st), pp. 105 - 123.
De Lorenzo, CM., 2005, 'Urban undercurrents', in Urban Design International, vol 10 no 3/4(1st), pp. 189 - 198.
De Lorenzo, CM. & Van Der Plaat, DA., 2004, 'More than Meets the Eye: Photographic Records of Humboldtian Imaginings', in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol 37(4), pp. 237 - 253.
De Lorenzo, CM. & Van Der Plaat, DA., 2004, 'Redefining the Urban Limits', in Limits: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the SAHANZ, eds Harriet Edquist & Helena Frichot, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 133 - 138
De Lorenzo, CM., 2004, 'Oceanian imaginings in French photographic archives', in HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, vol 28(2), pp. 137 - 148.
De Lorenzo, CM. & Van Der Plaat, DA., 2004, ''Our Australian Switzerland': Lindt, Humboldt and the Victorian Landscape', in Studies in the History of Gardens & Design Landscapes, vol 24(2), pp. 133 - 149.
De Lorenzo, C., ‘In and Out of Register: Images, Designs and the Garden Palace’ in Colonial City, Global City, eds. Peter Proudfoot, Roslyn Maguire and Rob Freestone, The Crossing Press, Sydney, 2000, pp. 169-187 ISBN: 0 9578291 1 6
De Lorenzo, C., ‘Interconnections’, catalogue essay in Whichaway? Photographs from Kiwirrkura 1974 - 1996 Jon Rhodes, [Thora]: Jon Rhodes, 1998
De Lorenzo, C., ‘Her Stories: The Wentworth Women: A Photographic Installation of a Re-Interpretation at Vaucluse House’, [excerpt from article in Transition 1996 (see below)] Past Present: The National Women’s Art Anthology, eds. J. Kerr and J. Holder, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999. pp. 155-6
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