Photography

Photography

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Interviews with photographers and scholars of photography about their new books.

Nancy Micklewright, "Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Photography and Identity in a Global City" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

June 30, 2026

Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul

Nancy Micklewright
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Over the 19th century, the women of Istanbul gradually transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, includi…

Andrew Wilson, "I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)

June 28, 2026

I Wanna Be Loved By You

Andrew Wilson
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

Publishing one hundred years after her birth, Andrew Wilson’s biography of Marilyn Monroe, I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Take…

Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen, "Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s" (Australian Centre on China in the World, 2025)

June 22, 2026

Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s

Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen
Hosted by Li-Ping Chen

Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s (Australian Centre on China in the World, 2025) explores four transformative decades of photography in T…

Blair LM Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)

June 19, 2026

Black Freedom

Blair LM Kelley
Hosted by Kishauna Soljour

Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is the first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth…

Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 16, 2026

Inventing Nadar

Emily Doucet
Hosted by Sadie Couture

Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of …

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age" (Bristol UP, 2026)

May 31, 2026

Food Porn

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its o…

Fiona Rogers, "Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage" (Thames & Hudson, 2026)

May 22, 2026

Cut Out

Fiona Rogers
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting and contradictory p…

Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2026)

April 29, 2026

A Volatile Picture

Vindhya Buthpitiya
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya is a groundbreaking et…

Nathanial Gardner, "A Companion to Latin American Photography" (Tamesis, 2025)

April 26, 2026

A Companion to Latin American Photography

Nathanial Gardner
Hosted by Candela Marini

A Companion to Latin American Photography (Tamesis Books, 2025) introduces the reader to the role that photography plays in Latin America, offers ways…

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, "Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections" (Neptune Publications, 2023)

March 27, 2026

Veins of Influence

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra
Hosted by Stephen Murphy

Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra (Neptune Publications, 2023) is a…

P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)

March 17, 2026

Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities

P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds.
Hosted by Khadeeja Amenda

Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and th…

Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

March 10, 2026

Forging a Mexican People

Pablo Zavala
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illust…

Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)

February 22, 2026

British Blonde

Lynda Nead
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the 1950s, American glamour swept into a war-torn Britain as part of a broader transatlantic exchange of culture and commodities. But in this proce…

Sary Zananiri, "Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)

February 12, 2026

Photographing Biblical Modernity

Sary Zananiri
Hosted by Roberto Mazza

This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Ca…

Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

January 22, 2026

A Dirty History of Photography

Michelle Henning
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (U Chicago Press, 2026), Professor Michelle Henning presents an environmental history of…

Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)

December 30, 2025

Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial

Agata Fijalkowski
Hosted by Alex Batesmith
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Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show…

Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)

December 16, 2025

Carnalities

Mariana Ortega
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wha…

Jorge Coronado, "Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

November 9, 2025

Portraits in the Andes

Jorge Coronado
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portugue…

Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)

October 29, 2025

The Road

Brian Baker
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

The Road (Akashic Books, 2025) is an illuminating selection of photographs spanning iconic punk rock guitarist Brian Baker’s many years of global tour…

Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

October 15, 2025

In Visible Presence

Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023) is an absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrat…