Profile
Julia Curl is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology. Her research focuses on 20th-century avant-garde photography and film. She received a B.F.A. in photography from Parsons School of Design and a B.A. in literary studies from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.
Curl currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative. She was the 2022–23 McCrindle Intern in photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. She also writes art criticism and book reviews for Hyperallergic.
Selected Publications
“Eileen Agar’s Surrealist Sea,” Hyperallergic, August 25, 2024.
“How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism,” Hyperallergic, July 23, 2024.
“Jean Painlevé Revealed the Otherworldliness Beneath the Water’s Surface,” Hyperallergic, September 15, 2022.
“Through a Glass, Enviously: Yuri Olesha’s Photographic Distortion of Reality,” The Macksey Journal, Johns Hopkins University, September 1, 2020.