Associate Professor Donna Brett is Chair of the Discipline of Art History. She is the author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge 2016), and co-editor with Natalya Lusty of Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge, 2019). This story was first published in The Conversation.
Top image: Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music, Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist. All images supplied by the Museum of Contemporary Art.
