Dr. Alise Tifentale is an art and photography historian, writer, editor, curator, and educator based in New York City. She received her PhD in Art History from the City University of New York. Her current research and writing deals with the global photo-club culture and the transnational networks of photographers and clubs at mid-century (ca. 1950-1965). Her fields of expertise include sociology of culture, cultural analytics, photography in social media, and transnational cultural networks. Her secondary field of expertise covers selected topics in Soviet, post-Soviet, and Eastern European art history, and since 1998 she has written extensively about contemporary art, history of art and photography in Latvia and the Baltic region.
Alise Tifentale is the author of The Photograph as Art in Latvia, 1960-1969 (2011) and the author or editor of several other books about photography, as well as three fiction books published in Latvian and German. Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Art History & Theory, ARTMargins, CAA.Reviews, Communication Today, Foto Kvartals, MoMA Post, Networking Knowledge, PhotoResearcher, Russian Art & Culture, Scriptus Manet, Social Sciences, Studija, and others. She has contributed chapters to volumes such as Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture (2018), Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Analytical, and Theoretical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), The History of European Photography 1970–2000 (Central European House of Photography, 2016), and Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation, and Design (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
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